On 18 March 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin stood in the Kremlin before an assembly of Russian officials and parliamentarians to address the nation. His speech marked the official signing of documents uniting the peninsular Republic of Crimea, which had just seceded from Ukraine, with the ...
“Don’t have any doubt: this is a job for life,” said one powerful Russian who is acquainted with thinking at the top levels of the Kremlin. He spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity to voice his views on political issues. “Putin has no competitors – he is at a completely dif...
Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting with members of the U.N. Security Council via a videoconference at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow on Friday. Russian military forces and Russian-backed se...
Prosecutors say it also can be tied directly to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has explicitly supported the adoptions. “It’s not something that happens spur of the moment on the battlefield,” said Stephen Rapp, a former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues who is ...
The huge pile near Gelendzhik on Russia's Black Sea Coast which Alexei Navalny calls "Putin's Palace" has a way of coming back to haunt the Russian president.
When Vladimir Putinunleashed an unprovoked invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, the Ukrainian media, public and policymakers almost unanimously began calling the Russian president and the state he leads “rashyst.” The term is a hybrid of a derogatory moniker for Russia –“rasha” – and ...
October 7, 2019. Russian President Vladimir Putin during a walk in the taiga Alexey Druzhinin/Sputnik Putin spent his 2014 birthday in a similar fashion. He took a weekend off then. “Tonight, he will travel to Siberia, to the taiga, some 300-400 kilometers from the nearest settlement, wh...
While attending a celebration of the Heroes of the Fatherland Day at the Kremlin on Dec. 8, 2023, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced his plan to run for re-election in 2024. Later, Putin submitted the registration documents to the CEC to run for president, and his campaign website ...
Russia’s multi-tentacled Wagner Group is not just sending mercenaries to Ukrainian. It’s also fighting the West with making slick propaganda films.
Russian President Vladimir Putin appears on a television screen on Feb. 25, 2022. | Michael Probst/AP DISINFORMATION DIGEST —Leaked Russian documents show that a former Florida sheriff’s deputy living in Russia is working directly with the Kremlin to produce deepfakes and misinformation ta...