Contents tagged with Putin
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Khodorkovsky claims Putin is involved in Skripal poisoning
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, an oppositionist who lives in Switzerland said that Russian President Vladimir Putin is responsible for the poisoning of former British spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter. "Putin ordered this done. That or he lost control of the special services, which is also likely," Khodorkovsky said on Tuesday, March 13, on German public-service television channel ZDF.
Former Russian intelligence agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Julia were found unconscious in Salisbury. England …
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Putin flatly refused to return Crimea
During an interview for the film “Putin”, which was made by Russian reporter Andrey Kondrashev, the Russian President said that under no circumstances will he give up the Crimea.
One of the questions that Kondrashev asked Putin concerned the circumstances under which he would return the Crimea.
“What, have you lost your mind? Under no circumstances, and I never will,” replied Putin.
A few days earlier, a film by another Russian reporter, Vladimir Solovyov, was released under the title The …
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Putin says his spokesman 'sometimes talks nonsense'
Russian President Vladimir Putin said that sometimes he does not understand his press secretary Dmitry Peskov, whose statements are considered to be the official position of the Kremlin.
During an interview with the American channel NBC, Putin was asked to comment on statements by Andrei Krutskikh, Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for International Cooperation in Information Security that appeared to confirm Russian interference in the American elections. Putin …
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US representative for Ukraine Volker: Putin's statements about new missiles are part of his election campaign
In an interview with Ukrinform news agency, Kurt Volker, US Department of State Special Representative for Ukraine, said that he believes that Vladimir Putin's statements about new missiles are related to the upcoming elections.
"I see this mainly in the context of Putin's re-election. It’s a campaign presentation. We have a lot of specific issues in relations with Russia that are worrisome: Syria, North Korea and Ukraine, including the Crimea. We can also recall other bilateral military and …
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Former NATO Secretary General calls Putin's plan for the Donbas a 'trap'
Deutsche Welle reports that former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has claimed that the introduction of a full-fledged peacekeeping mission in the Donbas would contribute to the implementation of the Minsk agreements.
"I believe that the peacekeeping mission would become a mechanism for the implementation of the Minsk agreements," he said.
In the meantime, according to Rasmussen, "there is no progress at all." He believes that the reason for this is precisely the absence of a …
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Putin says that Russia was forced to annex Crimea
Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Moscow was consciously led to annex Crimea.
“Sometimes it seems to me - and I think that there are certain grounds for this - that someone consciously led us to such a line, and once there, we had to act the way we acted. Not many expected that we would act so quickly, so resolutely, if not boldly,” said Putin in TV host Vladimir Soloviev’s film “World Order 2018.” The film is on Soloviev’s Vkontakte page.
According to Putin, he did not doubt that …
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Putin: 400 foreign agents were caught in Russia last year
Russian President Vladimir Putin said that during the past year, the activity of 72 personnel from foreign intelligence services and 397 foreign special services agents were detained in Russia.
On March 5th Putin spoke at the board of the Russian FSB, noting that in recent years, the activity of foreign intelligence agents was growing. According to Putin, they use the most modern methods of agent and technical intelligence.
He urged the Russian special services to prevent any attempts by …
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Daughter of the rector of Russian university says her father prepared Putin's thesis
The rector of the St. Petersburg Mining University, Vladimir Litvinenko, personally wrote a thesis for Russian President, Vladimir Putin, as indicated by his daughter, Olga Litvinenko, Radio Liberty reports.
"One of Vladimir Putin’s secrets, which Olga Litvinenko knows very well, is how he [Putin] defended his Ph.D. thesis," the publication writes.
He defended his thesis in 1997 at the St. Petersburg Mining University, now a university headed by Vladimir Litvinenko. At that time, Putin …
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Macron: Putin must convince Syrian government to respect ceasefire
During a telephone conversation with Putin ,French President Emmanuel Macron called on his Russian counterpart to encourage Syria to adopt a UN resolution calling for a 30-day ceasefire “without any ambiguity”, reported Radio Liberty, citing a source in Macron’s office.
The Elysee Palace reported that during the conversation, Macron “stressed that humanitarian workers should be able to reach all people who need help, without hindrance and without delay.”
On March 5, the UN Office for …
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Putin rejects possibility of extraditing individuals accused of interfering in elections to the US
Commenting on accusations by the United States against thirteen Russian citizens of interference in the US elections in 2016, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia would never "extradite" its citizens to the United States. He spoke about this during an interview with NBC News. The television channel published yet another excerpt from this conversation on March 4.
"Never, never. Russia does not extradite its citizens to anyone, just like the United States," the President said in …