Alex Thomson
Why we still need Vladimir Putin on our side
So Crimea has voted. It was messy, ugly, but it is also undeniably true that the majority will of the people in Crimea has prevailed – so what does the west do now?
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Donald Trump furiously defends meeting with Vladimir Putin but backtracks on comments
Donald Trump has furiously defended his Helsinki meeting with Vladimir Putin, denouncing “haters” who he accused of “Trump Derangement Syndrome”. It’s just a day after he claimed he had “misspoken” when he appeared to back Mr Putin’s denial of any Russian interference in US elections – comments which provoked outrage from all sides, including leading…
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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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Does Vladimir Putin’s daughter live in Surrey?
Mark Hollingsworth, co-author of ‘Londongrad: from Russia with Cash – the Inside Story of the Oligarchs’, says that it’s “very credible” that Vladimir Putin’s daughter is based in Surrey.
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‘Bon appetit’: Vladimir Putin’s message to G7 leaders
The leaders of the powerful G7 industrial nations meet in Brussels – with a noticeable exception – Russia President Vladimir Putin.
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Ukraine crisis: inside the mind of Vladimir Putin
As EU leaders decide their response to the situation in Ukraine, does “getting inside the head” of Vladimir Putin offer any hope of securing peace?
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Vladimir Putin set to return as Russia’s president
Russia’s current prime minister, Vladmir Putin, is all but guaranteed to return to the Kremlin after saying he will run for presidency in the country’s elections next March.
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‘I am very much concerned about my husband’s health and life’, says wife of jailed Putin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza
We spoke to Kara-Murza’s wife Evgenia and began by asking for her immediate reaction to her husband’s sentencing.
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Putin’s billion-dollar palace shows ‘astonishing hypocrisy’ of regime – Russian opposition activist Vladimir Kara- Murza
We spoke to the Russian opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza, and started by asking him what he made of video released today, showing Vladimir Putin dunking himself in ice-cold water to mark the Russian Orthodox day of Epiphany – a ceremony that supposedly symbolises a person cleansing themself of sin.
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Novichok inquiry: Dawn Sturgess family calls on Putin to give evidence
The family of Dawn Sturgess say the Russian president Vladimir Putin should “look them in the eye” and give evidence at the public inquiry into her death.
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US-Russia prisoner swap ‘momentous moment’, says Putin critic
We’re joined by financier Bill Browder, who is a friend of Vladimir Kara-Murza. He’s been an outspoken critic of Russia’s President since the death in a Moscow prison of his lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who’d uncovered massive fraud involving Russian officials.
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Putin denies plans to capture Ukrainian city of Kharkiv
The leader spoke about the Russian offensive during his trip to China.
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Putin meets Xi in Beijing amid widening gulf with West
It was a show of unity, with talk of peace and cooperation, but the backdrop was a world divided and – in Ukraine and Gaza – engaged in deadly combat.
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Putin says Russia will not be threatened in Victory Day speech
Vladimir Putin has used Russia’s annual Victory Day to accuse “arrogant” Western elites of forgetting the Soviet Union’s role in defeating Nazi Germany.
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Putin says radical Islamists behind Moscow attacks – but linked to wider Ukraine campaign
Vladimir Putin has accepted that radical Islamists were behind the attack on Friday that killed 137 people at a concert hall on the outskirts of Moscow, but he has also said the shooting was linked to a wider campaign against Russia by Ukraine, something strongly denied by Kyiv.
