Gary Gibbon
EU – Brexit down agenda again, Putin at top
The main agenda for today’s European Council meeting is a reminder of the many fronts on which the EU is threatened at the moment.
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Vladmir Putin faces annual phone-in questions
Why IS the weather so bad? Please can you fill in the potholes? What about that problem with Turkish tomatoes? Why haven’t you got married again? Did you really mess with the American election? Yes – today was the annual Putin phone-in, as the Russian President fielded questions from a nation getting everything, or ALMOST…
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Garry Kasparov: ‘Putin ensured non-democratic forces are on the rise’
Kasparov is the chairman of the human rights foundation and former world chess champion. He now lives in America and has spoken about Russian meddling in the US election. In his new book Deep Thinking he discusses our relationship with artificial intelligence and reminisces on the moment twenty years ago when he was beaten at…
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Le Pen meets Putin in Moscow
Russian President Vladimir Putin has met the far-right French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen in the Kremlin, and insisted – yes, insisted – that Moscow had no intention of interfering in the French elections.
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Putin discusses Syria with Erdogan
The Russian President Vladimir Putin has been meeting the Turkish President in Moscow, before an expected attempt to oust militant Islamic State fighters from the Syrian city of Raqqa.
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Trump and Putin talk tough
The danse macabre between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin continues. After Trump’s tweets and comments about America winning any nuclear “arms race”, the Russian resident responded in kind, saying his country was “stronger than any potential aggressor”. Whatever happened to their bromance?
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Gary Gibbon
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Putin ‘probably’ approved Litvinenko assassination
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin “probably” approved the fatal poisoning of former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko with radioactive polonium in London in 2006, a public inquiry has found.
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Putin warns of ‘serious consequences’ after plane downed
Russian President Vladimir Putin describes Turkey’s downing of a Russian warplane as a “stab in the back”, while Nato holds an extraordinary meeting to discuss the incident.
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Putin suspends Russian flights to Egypt
Moscow suspending passenger flights to Egypt after the Sinai air crash, just a day after suggesting Britain had acted prematurely by grounding jets.
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Assad makes suprise visit to Russia to meet Putin
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad flies to Moscow to thank Russian Vladimir Putin in person for his military support.
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Lindsey Hilsum
Tartus, the town where Syrians believe Putin should be king
In President Assad’s heartland the Russian decision to start air strikes on Syrian rebel positions is being hailed by ordinary people, who hope they mark the beginning of the end of a long war.
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Syria tops agenda as Putin attends UN summit
Syria will dominate a meeting of the UN general assembly in New York, with Russia pressing other countries to unite against Islamic State.
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Jonathan Rugman
We must face down Putin threat with power, says former MI6 chief
The UK’s emphasis on Islamist terrorism has meant it has ignored the traditional threat from nation states like Russia, according to a former head of MI6.
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Vladimir Putin reappears – but where did he go?
Russian President Vladimir Putin appears in public for the first time in 11 days at a meeting with the president of Kyrgyzstan in St Petersburg.
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Has he read the news? Putin says Ukraine war ‘unlikely’
Russian President Vladimir Putin rejects the “apocalyptic scenario” of war with Ukraine, amid continued reports of a crumbling ceasefire.
