Contents tagged with Putin
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Italy considers questioning Putin over Cosa Nostra case
The defense team of Italian General Mario Mori proposed to question Russian President Vladimir Putin during the high profile “Italian state and Mafia negotiations” trial, La Stampa reported.
General Mori has been linked to secret negotiations between high-ranking representatives of Italy and the leaders of the Cosa Nostra. According to the Palermo prosecutor's office, these events took place in the early 1990s.
The former head of Special Forces of the carabineers, General Mori was accused of …
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Ukraine voices protest over Putin’s visit to Crimea
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine sent a letter of protest to Russia in connection with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to the annexed Crimean peninsula, as reported by the press service of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry.
"The Foreign Ministry expresses its strong protest in connection with another visit on June 24, 2017 of the Russian delegation led by Putin to the territory of Ukraine, temporarily occupied by the Russian Federation – the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, which …
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Ukraine submits an appeal against decision on 'Yanukovych loan'
On Friday, the Ukrainian Ministry of Finance submitted the necessary documents on behalf of the State of Ukraine to the English Court of Appeals to initiate an appeal against the decision of the High Court of London on the claim of the Russian Federation against Ukraine regarding Eurobonds for $3 billion.
"Ukraine is confident in the arguments of the appeal and in winning at the Court of Appeal at the appropriate time. The hearing of the appeal is tentatively scheduled for the second half of …
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Putin to visit construction of Turkish Stream gas pipeline
On Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin will make a business trip to Krasnodar Krai. As reported by the Kremlin’s press service, in Anapa the head of state will inspect the work which is underway on the laying of the Turkish Stream gas pipeline.
“The President will observe the joining of the shallow and the deep-water parts of the Turkish Stream gas pipeline from on board the pipe-laying vessel the ‘Pioneering Spirit’,” the Kremlin noted.
The Pioneering Spirit is the largest construction …
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Putin explained why increasing financial assistance to Sevastopol is not yet reasonable
Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Sevastopol could receive budgeted funds two to three times larger than in the past. However, according to him, this cannot happen, because the city is not able to cope with such a large amount of money properly.
"Sevastopol is not ready to accept such a large amount of money," Putin explained on Wednesday at a meeting with teachers. The inability to master all the money received can lead to theft of funds, Putin added.
At the same time, he …
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The Kremlin: Preparations have not been made for a meeting between Putin and Trump
The Kremlin said that there are still no preparations for the meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump.
However, Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin speaker, expressed confidence that, if necessary, everything will be coordinated although there is not much time left before the expected date of the meeting on July 7.
According to Peskov, Trump and Putin will be present that day at the G-20 summit in Germany and Moscow "does not exclude" the possibility that both …
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Media: In Oliver Stone’s ‘The Putin Interviews’ Putin used a fake video to show ‘the work of Russian aviation’
The third part of the documentary "Putin", which Russian television will show on Wednesday, June 21, included a fragment in which the Russian president demonstrates the actions of Russian aviation in Syria to American director Oliver Stone on a smartphone.
As a group of independent investigators from the Conflict Intelligence Team was able to establish, Putin passed off a video in which a US Apache helicopter attacks the position of the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2009 as the work of Russian …
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Media: Questions during direct line with Putin were screened by Kremlin
All the questions that were broadcast on the screen during a live broadcast of a direct line with President Vladimir Putin, including questions about the possible resignation of the head of state and about the policy of Aleksey Navalny, were agreed upon in advance by the organizers of the program and the Kremlin's press service. This was reported by the BBC Russian Service, citing several employees who participated in the preparation of the program.
“First, they select one, then select others, …
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Putin dismisses several heads of state departments
By decree, President Vladimir Putin has dismissed several heads of the structural divisions of the Russian Investigative Committee (IC), Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) and Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN). The relevant document was published on the official legal information web portal.
Among those dismissed were Alexei Mayakov, head of the IC department for the Leningrad region, Vladimir Romanyuk, deputy head of the MIA head office for the Sverdlovsk region, as well as Anatoly …
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Russian schoolboy was dissatisfied with Putin's answer to the question about corruption
A schoolboy named Danila, from Nefteyugansk, remained dissatisfied with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s response to his question about corruption.
During the ‘Direct Line with Vladimir Putin’ Q&A TV show, the young man asked Putin how the President could solve the problem of corrupt officials. The teenager also expressed the opinion that placing corruption suspects on house arrest does not yield results, yet the problem affects most of the country's population.
He added that in the Khanty- …