Betrayal by a close friend? Vladimir Putin tricked Bashar-al-Assad in his last days of power; wasn't picking up his calls
Vladimir Putin is currently entangled in a major international controversy, after Syria’s former media chief and top aide to ...
Russian Ruble Nosedives as Economy Gives Putin Major Headache
The plunging Russian currency, the ruble, has added to inflationary pressures in Russia, British officials have said, as the ...
Putin asks Russian Orthodox church patriarch to consecrate Christmas gifts for troops in Ukraine
Russia's invasion, which began in February 2022, has also been a source of religious controversy within the Eastern Orthodox ...
Panic in tiny European country over Vladimir Putin meddling in breakaway region
Vladimir Putin has been accused of manufacturing an energy crisis in a breakaway region of Moldova to create instability and ...
Ukraine-Russia war latest: Trump sympathises with Putin’s Nato stance as Kyiv drones hit key Russian city
Ukrainian presidential advisor Alexander Kamyshin says the strike on the Russian oil facility shows Kyiv has ‘superpowers’ ...
Putin is heavily sanctioned, but he still managed to travel a lot this year
The Russian president hobnobbed with world leaders and received a plethora of gifts, including a pair of hunting dogs.
China Told Putin Not To Use Nuclear Weapons, Blinken Says
The U.S. secretary of state told the Financial Times that pressure from Beijing dissuaded Vladimir Putin from using nuclear ...
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Punishing Putin: Inside the Global Economic War to Bring Down Russia
Baker, a veteran journalist, offers a deeply sourced investigation into the political economy of the sanctions imposed on Russia following its attack on Ukraine.
Vladimir Putin says he’s ‘ready’ for potential meeting with Trump
Putin, during a wide-ranging end-of-year news conference in Moscow, claimed that he hasn’t spoken to Trump in years and that ...
Sanctions brought on by Putin’s war in Ukraine are taking a bite out of Russia’s New Year's salad
With soaring inflation and the ruble dropping to one of its lowest levels against the dollar since President Vladimir Putin ...
Putin says he saved Russia, but a year of challenges suggests Moscow’s position is precarious
Marking 25 years in office, Vladimir Putin says he has remade Russia as a sovereign power and will prevail in Ukraine, but ...
The wild, AI-assisted biopic Putin doesn’t want you to see
How do you get Vladimir Putin to star in his own biopic? If you’re Polish director Patryk Vega, the answer is (relatively) simple: you hire Polish actor Slawomir Sobala, ask him to spend two years ...