Contents tagged with Putin
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Putin signs decree allowing Russian intelligence agencies to recruit private spies
Russian President Vldaimir Putin has signed a decree allowing Russian intelligence to have a new type of secret service agents - "foreign intelligence officers of the Russian Federation that are not part of the staff", but are involved in performing intelligence missions, the newspaper Vedomosti reports.
Information about such employees is now classified. According to the new decree, disclosing of such information entails criminal liability.
This is the first time such definition appears in …
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New protests against the pension reform held in Russia
The Russian Communist Party, Yabloko party, Democratic Choice and other political groups organized new protests against the pension reform. These protests were held on Sunday, September 2, in many Russian cities.
"According to the organizers, 2000 people took part in the rally in Vladivostok, up to 2500 in Novosibirsk and 500 in Yekaterinburg. Mass protests also took place in Barnaul, Bryansk, Lipetsk, Omsk, Rostov-on-Don, Samara," - said the report.
In Moscow, the Moscow’s branch of the …
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Putin condemns Zakharchenko's assassination
Russian President Vladimir Putin called the death of the head of the Donetsk People’s Republic, Alexander Zakharchenko a "vile murder" and a "terror" attack.
According to the Kremlin website, Putin considers that the Zakharchenko "killers" chose "the path of terror, violence, intimidation" and allegedly "do not want to seek a peaceful, political solution to the conflict, do not want to conduct a real dialogue with the inhabitants of the southeast [of Ukraine]".
The Russian president believes …
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Hollande: Putin threatened Poroshenko at Minsk talks
During the Normandy Format talks in Minsk in February 2015, Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened to “crush” the Ukrainian troops. This is mentioned in a memoir by former French president François Hollande titled “Lessons of Power”.
“Poroshenko and Putin constantly raised their voices with each other. The Russian president was so worked up, that he started threatening to decisively crush his counterpart’s forces. This showed that there are Russian troops in eastern Ukraine. Putin …
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Germany to abandon Nord Stream 2 if US imposes sanctions
The German concern Uniper, one of Gazprom’s five European partners participating in the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, will be forced to pull out of the project if it is placed under US sanctions, said Uniper board member Christopher Delbrück on Wednesday, as reported by Down Jones.
According to him, the risk of sanctions exceeds the possible losses for the concern if it withdraws from the collaboration with Gazprom.
“Of course, Uniper cannot risk US sanctions,” he said, “In …
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Putin dismisses 15 generals
Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed fifteen generals of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry for Emergency Situations, the Federal Penitentiary Service and the Investigative Committee of Russia. The relevant decree was published on August 28 on the official internet portal on legal information.
The more notable department heads that were dismissed include the Head of the Main Department of Ministry for Emergency Situations of Russia in the Tomsk Region, Mikhail Begun, the …
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Turkish media: US plans to create no-fly zones in Syria
The US has built three advanced radar systems in northern regions of Syria, as well as deployed mobile and stationary radar facilities, writes the Turkish newspaper Yeni Safak citing former commander of the Military Assembly of Deir ez-Zor Fayez Esmer. According to him, in the future, the US plans to create an “air defense shield” in the region.
The publication also says, without specifying a source for the information, that the US “has already started creating a no-fly zone in northern Syria” …
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Merkel and Trump urged Putin to influence Assad
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and US President Donald Trump had a telephone call conversation, during which they discussed the situation in Syria,reported the representative of the German government Steffen Seibert.
It is noted that Germany and the United States share a common concern in connection with the humanitarian crisis in the Idlib region, as well as the movement of government forces on the holdings of Islamist and jihadist groups in this province.
Merkel and Trump "called on Russia …
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Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs claims Putin's visit to her wedding was ‘unexpected’
During a broadcast of Ö1 radio, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Austria, Karin Kneissl said that she does not have any close relationship with Putin and the invitation of the Russian President to her wedding was “a completely spontaneous" move.
Putin had come to the wedding on August 18, causing a wave of criticism in the country.
In early June, the Minister invited government colleagues and the President of Austria to the wedding because “that is the way things are done." At the reception …
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President of Belarus Lukashenko announces a new meeting with Putin
In an interview with Belarus 1 TV channel, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko spoke about a new meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in the near future with the participation of governments of both sides.
Lukashenko said that they reached the corresponding agreement during their negotiations in Sochi on August 22.
“Most importantly, we agreed with the Russian President to arrange our schedules to find an opportunity to meet in the next few days. We will meet in a broad …