Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Tuesday that Russia is prepared to take "military-technical measures" in response to "unfriendly" Western actions over the Ukraine conflict in a sharp escalation of rhetoric. "In the event of the continuation of the obviously aggressive stance by...
Russian President Vladimir Putin says Moscow has tested a new intermediate-range missile in a strike on Ukraine and that it could use the weapon against countries that have allowed Kyiv to use their missiles to strike Russia. (AP Production: Tracy Brown) 2 of 5 | In this image made...
US and Russian officials hold six-hour talks in Turkey We've got more to bring you now on talks between US and Russian officials in Turkey today (see our 8.20am post). According to Russian state news agency TASS, the talks have now wrapped up after six hours. In ...
“We haven’t turned onto the self-isolation path. Quite the opposite,” Putin said at the forum’s plenary session. "We have widened contacts with reliable and responsible partners in the countries and regions that serve as the engine, the drivers of the world...
"It is business as usual today. In principle, we are satisfied with it," he said, adding Russia is interested in developing ties with Europe and it will strive towards this. ON SETTLEMENT OF SYRIA CRISIS The Russian leader gave credit to international cooperation, without which he said the ...
In 1991, when Lockshin was 10, the hammer and sickle flag came down and the old Russian tricolor went up. “Everyone around just was envious of the Western world. As soon as you didn’t have to do any of the communist stuff, no one was sad about it,” he says. “The system...
Russian invasion of Ukraine: A visual timeline of the war As the war in Ukraine enters its second year, ABC News tracks the milestones of the conflict and how Ukraine fought back against the Russian invasion.ByMorgan Winsor, Nadine El-Bawab, Ivan Pereira, Meredith Deliso, Kevin Shalvey, Bill...
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I'm talking about negative ones. He also does it in a positive way, for instance, when he met with Obama in 2009, and I need to be careful here about what I'm going to talk about. But he was trying to make the case that there can be circumstances under which Russian and Americ...
In his remarks, Putin also said Russia had more than 30 energy projects in African countries, adding that Russian fuel supplies would help African governments to contain price rises. "Over the past two years, exports to Africa of Russian crude oil, petroleum products and ...