Contents tagged with Putin
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Putin and Lukashenko to inspect Zapad-2017 joint military exercise
The Presidents of Russia and Belarus, Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko, respectively plan to visit together the strategic Zapad (West) 2017 exercise, which will include large-scale maneuvers from both armies. Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for Vladimir Putin explained to Izvestia newspaper that the two presidents intend to visit one of the training grounds in Russia.
The joint Russian-Belarusian strategic exercise Zapad 2017 will be held from September 14 to September 20, 2017. According to …
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Putin: The North Korean situation is on the brink of war
Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the situation on the Korean Peninsula is teetering on the brink of a large-scale conflict. He wrote this in an article on the eve of the BRICS summit, which will be held in Xiamen on September 4-5. The article was published on the Kremlin’s website.
“I cannot ignore the situation on the Korean Peninsula, which has recently escalated and is teetering on the edge of a large-scale conflict,” said the Russian president.
Putin stressed that, in Russia's …
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Media: People from Putin’s circle have seized Yanuckovych’s estate in Crimea
Possession of the villa of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych at Cape Aya in the Crimea was transferred to the Bereg Company, associated with Gennady Timchenko, Nikolay Shamalov, Sergey Rudnov and Sergey Roldugin: all friends of Russian President Vladimir Putin, as reported by the Municipal Scanner volunteer project which reports on corruption in Russia .
The former recreational resort at Cape Aya was privatized by the Yanukovych family in 2007 at the same time as Mezhyhirya. After …
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Ukraine outraged at Putin’s Debrecen award
Ukraine considers it unacceptable that the University of Debrecen is awarding Russian President Vladimir Putin the title of “honorary citizen”. This was the conclusion of the article which Ukrainian Ambassador to Hungary Liubov Nepop sent to a Hungarian news outlet, Evropeyskaya Pravda reported.
According to the ambassador, perhaps, few years ago nobody would have paid any attention to this, but in light of recent developments in Ukraine, it is unacceptable.
“Since 2014, the name Vladimir …
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Media: Russian Ministry of Justice issues warning to Putin’s daughter’s foundation
The Russian Ministry of Justice has issued a warning to the foundation “Interdisciplinary initiatives in the field of the natural and humanitarian sciences” (FMI), co-owned by Yekaterina Tikhonova, who is presumed to be the daughter of Russian President Vladimir Putin, reported news outlet Sobesednik, citing the Russian Justice Ministry’s response.
The news outlet sent an inquiry relating to the fact that the foundation does not provide the accounting required by law. The Ministry of Justice …
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Israeli Prime Minister: Urgent meeting with Putin prompted by changed situation in the region
In an interview with Channel 20 Israel, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu named the changing situation in the region "in past weeks" and, in particular, on the Israeli-Syrian border, as the reason for an "urgent" meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The situation in Syria, Netanyahu observed, "was stable until the last weeks." "Over the past weeks, there have been enormous changes," he added, recalling that at the "northern border of Israel", there has been an armed …
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German politicians demand that German Foreign Minister explain his dinner with Putin
Alliance 90/The Greens is asking the head of the Foreign Ministry of the Federal Republic of Germany, Sigmar Gabriel, to explain the dinner with Russian President Vladimir Putin and former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, who is supposed to join the supervisory board of Rosneft.
Gabriel was asked to respond before the September elections to the Bundestag, reports DW.
"The Foreign Minister should dispel suspicions that Schröder is trying to use him to promote the interests of Putin and …
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Putin met Ukrainian MP Medvedchuk in Crimea
The President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, during a trip to the Crimea met with a representative of Ukraine from one of the subgroups of the Trilateral Contact Group, Viktor Medvedchuk, as reported by RBC news agency, citing sources.
Putin was in the annexed peninsula for three days, as of Friday, August 18. He went to Sevastopol, visited the Chersonesus reserve and the Tavrida children's camp.
During his visit, Putin made time for closed talks with Medvedchuk.
"The leader of the Ukrainian …
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Putin in Crimea: the influence of the government on the media in Russia has to be minimized
The creative community must itself filter TV and Internet content, and the state's influence should be minimized in this sphere, declared Russian President Vladimir Putin on August 20 at the Tavidra forum that took place in the annexed Crimea.
"It would be right if the community itself developed a system of moral and ethical filters, to minimize if not to exclude, but it would be better, of course, to exclude the state’s influence on this process [the media]," Russian News Agency TASS quoted …
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Putin wants to reduce the number of audits and prosecutions of businessmen in Russia
President Vladimir Putin signed a list of orders "on measures to reduce the administrative burden on business entities in the Russian Federation,” as indicated in a statement by the press service of the Kremlin.
The orders are divided into two main parts. The first concerns planned and unscheduled inspections of businesses by the government controlling bodies and the second is regarding the detention of "suspects and those accused of committing crimes in the field of entrepreneurial activity." …