Contents tagged with Putin
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Ukrainian President speaks about Merkel and Macron’s pressure on Putin
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said that the leaders of the Normandy Four countries – himself, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron – pressurized Russian President Vladimir Putin to agree to establish a truce in the Donbas for Easter. Poroshenko mentioned this during a meeting with inhabitants of Volnovakha, 112 Ukraine reports.
He called the truce as necessary as “air” and said that it is a condition for introducing peacekeepers in the Donbas. The …
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Russian world chess champion Garry Kasparov calls for a political boycott of the 2018 World Cup
World-renowned chess champion Garry Kasparov calls for a boycott of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia. Kasparov addressed his concerns to foreign politicians in his column for the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
A Russian Grandmaster, the 13th world chess champion Kasparov said that by boycotting the tournament at such a late stage, the individual teams would only be punishing themselves. "In principle, I do not favor late boycotts of sporting events, since I believe it …
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Lukashenko wants to discuss with Putin problems regarding product supplies from Belarus
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko stated he would like to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin following his inauguration to discuss problems with deliveries of Belarusian products to Russia. However, Lukashenko still advises Russia to look for alternative markets.
“As for exports, look for other markets,” Lukashenko said, according to his press service. “If Russia does not understand us and does not want to understand, then I will meet the President [of Russia] after the …
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Serbian President asks Putin for advice over intensification of Kosovo conflict
Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić has asked Russian president Vladimir Putin for advice regarding the intensification of the Kosovo conflict, reported RTS-a (Radio Television of Serbia).
During a telephone call with Putin, Vučić informed the Russian President about the latest developments in Kosovo, including information about the detention of Serbian diplomat Marko Djurić.
"President Vučić requested the opinion and advice of the President of the Russian Federation on how to counter the …
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After winning the election Putin will form new government
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s first order of business will be to attend to the implementation of the road map according to the provisions laid out in his message to the Federal Assembly, as well as form a "new team that will go further," as reported by Putin’s Press Secretary, Dmitry Peskov, in an interview with the program Itogi Nedeli (Summary of the week) on NTV.
He noted that the Russian leader will form a new Cabinet of Ministers and presidential administration, "and then move ahead, …
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Peskov: newly elected Putin is different from the previous one
Vladimir Putin, as the new president of Russia, has a clear vision of the country's future development and is different from Putin that the voters have been accustomed to see, said Dmitry Peskov, the Press Secretary of the Russian President, on Sunday, March 25, 2018.
"The new Putin is a combination of whom we know and around whom we unite. He understands what we need in the future. His vision is much broader than of an average voter, and therefore he has an overwhelming support. People know …
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Putin asks Russians 'to be patient'
Russian President Vladimir Putin said during a live broadcast on Russian federal television on Friday that citizens of Russia should not expect that all the problems that have arisen in the country, particularly in its economy and social spheres, will be resolved immediately.
"You, Russian citizens, are right to speak about low incomes, faults with the healthcare system, housing, utilities and other things as well," Putin said, stressing that after winning the election he feels "a need to …
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Putin's cousin elected to Gazprom board
Gazprom’s Board of Directors has elected Mikhail Putin as a Deputy Chairman of the company for a period of five years, Interfax reports, citing Gazprom's press service.
He has taken the position of Alexander Kozlov, who passed away last year.
Mikhail Putin is the first cousin once removed of Russian President Vladimir Putin. He was born in Ivanovo in 1967, and graduated from the Ivanovo State Medical Institute and the Ordzhonikidze Moscow Management Institute (now State University of …
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President of European Council Tusk refuses to congratulate Putin on winning the election
On Wednesday, March 21, the President of the European Council Donald Tusk said that because of the poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter, he will not congratulate the president of Russia on re-election, RIA Novosti reported.
"After the attack in Salisbury, I have no mood to celebrate the re-election of President Putin," Tusk said, answering questions from journalists in Brussels on Wednesday.
Tusk is not alone in his sentiments. The President of Lithuania, Dalia Grybauskaitė and Polish …
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Putin gets almost 85% of the vote from Russians abroad
Vladimir Putin received 84.99% of the vote from Russians who went to polling stations abroad, RIA Novosti reported, citing a member of Russia’s Central Election Commission (CEC), Vasily Likhachev.
According to the CEC, almost 475,300 people voted abroad in the recent presidential election in Russia.
“In first place was Vladimir Putin, with 403,942 votes. In percentage terms that is 84.99%. In second place was Pavel Grudinin (23,938 votes or 5.04%). In third place was Ksenia Sobchak (19,331 …