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Vladmir Putin ‘is bluffing’ over Ukraine invasion, says financier
We spoke to Bill Browder, a financier who invested in Russian business, later to be targeted by the government there.
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‘Putin is a serial aggressor’, says former US ambassador to Ukraine
We spoke to John Herbst, former US Ambassador to Ukraine, and started by asking if talks between Nato and Russia could defuse tensions on the Ukrainian border.
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Putin may be looking for ‘way out’ of Ukraine conflict, ex-US rep to Nato says
We spoke to Ivo Daalder, who has served as the US permanent representative for NATO, and started by asking him what he thinks the situation in Kazakhstan tells us about President Putin and his power in the post-Soviet region.
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Vladmir Putin accuses West of ‘standing with missiles on our doorstep’
Russian president Vladimir Putin has accused the West of “standing with missiles on our doorstep” and repeated his demand that Nato must not be allowed to expand to Ukraine.
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Biden and Putin hold talks over Ukraine invasion threat
US President Joe Biden has told his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin that America and its allies would respond with strong economic and other measures in the event of any military escalation in Ukraine.
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‘Putin considers Ukraine unfinished business’, says former US ambassador to EU
We spoke to Anthony Gardner, who served as President Obama’s ambassador to the European Union, and started by asking him whether conflict on the Russia-Ukraine border is possible.
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Wholesale gas prices hit record high before falling after Putin intervenes
The energy squeeze on British households looks set to intensify after wholesale gas prices shot up spectacularly this morning, rising by more than a third at one point. But prices then dropped back after an intervention from President Putin.
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Novichok poisoning: Putin ‘more Keystone Cops than KGB’, says Tugendhat
We spoke to Tom Tugendhat, the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee and asked him if he was surprised to hear a third person is believed to be involved in the poisoning of the Skripals.
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Russia elections: Putin’s party wins majority
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Russia’s ruling pro-Kremlin party looks poised to keep its supermajority in parliament, after elections marred by allegations of vote rigging and fraud.
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Russia elections: crackdown on Navalny app promoting Putin rivals
An app promoting smart voting was suddenly kicked off Google and Apple. Rivals with identical names and appearances are running against opposition candidates. State employees are allegedly being forced to turn out to vote.
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‘Putin is not indestructible’, says former US defence secretary Chuck Hagel
Chuck Hagel served as US defence secretary under President Obama.
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Biden tells Putin: ‘We need basic rules of road we can all abide by’
A “frank and candid discussion” was how Vladimir Putin described today’s summit talks in Geneva with President Biden, claiming there had been no hostility between the two leaders.
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Biden looking forward to working with Putin on climate change
On the second day of a virtual international summit, Mr Biden urged world leaders to view tackling climate change as an “opportunity for economic prosperity”, ramping up investment in renewable energy and cleaner economies.
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Putin critic Navalny moved to prison hospital after three weeks on hunger strike
Lawyers for the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny say his health is deteriorating, despite being transferred to a prison hospital earlier today.
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Biden calls Putin amid Russian military build-up on Ukraine border
After Donald Trump’s erratic policies, Joe Biden appears keen to reset military relations with Nato and Europe.