Search results for ‘Vladimir Putin’
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Protesters spoil ballots in defiance of President Putin as polls open in Russia’s election
The European Council President has congratulated Vladimir Putin on his landslide victory, as voting gets underway in Russia’s presidential elections.
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Navalny ally calls his hammer attack a ‘typical criminal “hello” from Putin’
A top aide to the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is recovering from a hammer attack outside his home in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius.
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Dubbed: Navalny widow vows blame Putin and to fight for ‘free Russia’
Yulia Navalnaya says she knows exactly why her husband was killed on Friday but while she’s not yet revealing the reason, she places the blame squarely at Vladimir Putin’s feet. In the meantime she’s been addressing European leaders, recording videos and vowing to fight on for what she calls a Free Russia.
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Putin critic Alexei Navalny dies in Siberian jail, says Russia
Alexei Navalny “was so many things Putin was not: brave, principled and dedicated to building a Russia where the rule of law existed” – the words of President Biden on Russia’s most prominent opposition leader, whose death was announced today.
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Who is Boris Nadezhdin, Putin challenger who hopes to run in Russia presidential election
His surname derives from the Russian word for hope. And right now Boris Nadeezhdin is hoping the Kremlin will let him run for president against Vladimir Putin.
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Putin makes emboldened speech – as EU opens Ukraine accession talks
EU leaders have agreed to open membership talks with Ukraine and Moldova.
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Kim Jong Un pledges support for Putin’s ‘sacred fight’ with West (dubbed)
The North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has given his full support to what he called Russia’s “sacred struggle” – as he met Vladimir Putin for talks at a space facility in Russia’s far east. According to Kim, the two leaders agreed to “further strengthen strategic and tactical co-operation” – although there were no details…
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‘No doubt’ Putin behind Prigozhin’s death, says former Russian prime minister
Mikhail Kasyanov is a Russian opposition politician who was previously Prime Minister under Vladimir Putin.
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Putin breaks silence on Wagner boss Prigozhin plane crash
Twenty four hours after the plane crash thought to have killed Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, Vladimir Putin has commented publicly on it.
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Putin’s ‘rotten’ Russia needs to change – Evgenia Kara-Murza on the fight for Russian freedom
Evgenia Kara-Murza, the wife of long-time Russian opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza, joins Krishnan Guru-Murthy to talk about her fight to free Russia’s political prisoners, the toll Vladimir’s detention has taken on their family and whether she can envisage a future in a free, democratic Russia, in this week’s Way to Change the World podcast.
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Putin will be ‘gone within a year’, says chess grandmaster Kasparov
We spoke to the Russian chess grandmaster and human rights campaigner Garry Kasparov.
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Putin attacks Wagner Group in speech, as Prigozhin arrives in Belarus for exile
So what punishment awaits Yevgeny Prigozhin? A new military base in Belarus and all charges dropped.
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Putin ‘a fanatic but not a strong leader’, says former Russian prime minister
We spoke to Mikhail Kasyanov, who served as Prime Minister of Russia under Vladimir Putin from 2000 to 2004
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In scaled down military parade, Putin accuses West of seeking to destroy his country
The Russian president Vladimir Putin has claimed “a real war has been unleashed again” against his country – at a distinctly scaled back parade through Moscow’s Red Square, marking the anniversary of Nazi Germany’s surrender. Mr Putin used the occasion to justify Russia’s war in Ukraine – flanked by a handful of leaders from former…
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Chinese President visits Putin in Russia
Vladimir Putin has described the Chinese President as his “dear friend” as he welcomed Xi Jinping to the Kremlin – at the start of a two day visit. President Xi praised his Russian counterpart’s “strong leadership” and claimed the two countries shared some similar goals.