Contents tagged with Putin
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Erdogan and Putin agree on ceasefire in Syria
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin have reached an agreement aimed at ending fighting in Syria's Idlib province.
After talks in Moscow on Thursday, the two leaders announced a truce that will take effect in the region at midnight.
"Our task is to prevent the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the region. We will make every effort to provide the necessary assistance to all those in need, and we will also ensure that refugees return to their homes," …
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Putin: reports about outbreak of coronavirus in Russia originate from abroad
Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with members of the government that the situation with the coronavirus in both Russia and Moscow is under control and "nothing critical is happening yet". According to him, the information, which claims the opposite, is published on social networks from abroad in order to "sow panic among the population".
Putin said that he was informed about it by FSB (Russian Federal Security Service). He did not specify who exactly is behind these reports …
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Putin: No one should think of going to war with Russia
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that Russia is not going to fight with anyone.
"We are not going to fight with anyone, but we are creating such a situation in the defense, so that no one would think to fight with us," he said in an interview with TASS for the project "20 questions to Vladimir Putin".
Putin reminded that Russia is the seventh largest in the world in terms of military spending. The United States, China, Saudi Arabia, Great Britain, France and Japan are ahead in this …
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Putin says Trump confessed to him about huge military spending
Russian President Vladimir Putin said said that U.S. leader Donald Trump admitted that the US is spending too much on its military.
"Donald [Trump] told me they [the US] have a crazy [military] budget passed for next year, $738 billion, in my opinion,” Putin said in an interview with the Russian news agency TASS.
He added that the US president had " said this with regret" and said "too much spending." "I have to do it. He is generally a supporter of disarmament, as he says," Putin concluded. …
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Kremlin: Putin-Erdogan meeting in March will not be easy
The meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan will not be easy, but both sides intend to keep a course on a peaceful settlement of the conflict in Syria, said Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for the Russian President. The Kremlin representative also commented on Erdogan's request to Russia to "step aside". He reminded that Russian forces are in the country at the invitation of Damascus.
"Yes, in the middle of the week, March 5th or 6th, the …
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Erdogan asks Putin to step aside in Syria
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that during a telephone conversation he asked Russian President Vladimir Putin not to interfere in the conflict between the Turkish Armed Forces and Syrian troops.
"I openly asked Putin, "What are you doing in Idlib? If you want to create a military base, then create one, but get out of Turkey’s way," Erdogan said on Saturday in Istanbul, as cited by Anadolu.
According to Erdogan, the Turkish military in Syria is "at the invitation of the Syrian …
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Lukashenko: Belarus ready to integrate with Russia, but without coercion
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said that the country is ready for real integration with Russia, but without coercion.
“We remain, as always, committed to real integration, without coercion to integrate. And it’s strange that this began with Belarus being coerced to integrate. You understand what I’m referring to,” said Lukashenko during a meeting with Mikhail Myasnikovich, Chairman of the Eurasian Economic Commission College, as cited by BelTA.
He pointed out that even with Boris …
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Belarus to receive first batch of oil from Azerbaijan
In March, Belarus will receive its first batch of oil from Azerbaijan – 160,000 tons.
When Russia failed to reach an agreement with its “brother Belarus” on oil prices, it essentially lost this market, and gave Minsk an opportunity to select suppliers independently. As a result, Belarus has been receiving deliveries of black gold from other countries since January, eliminating Rosneft’s monopoly.
In January, Belarus received its first batch of Norwegian oil through the Lithuanian port of …
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Putin refuses to negotiate with Erdogan and attacks Turkish forces in Syria
The situation in northern Syria, where Bashar al-Assad’s army, with support from the Russian Aerospace Forces, is fighting for control over Idlib, deteriorated sharply on Thursday.
The Turkish army, which entered Idlib at the end of last year, was targeted in an air raid, which killed at least 22 soldiers, the Daily Sabah reports, citing the authorities of the Turkish border province of Hatay.
According to Al-Monitor, at least 30 people were killed in the attack. The Syrian Observatory for …
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Putin lays claim to offshore assets of former Soviet states
The former republics of the Soviet Union breached their agreements to give Russia their assets abroad, said Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday while meeting with the work group for drafting amendments to the constitution.
According to Putin, when the Soviet Union collapsed, Moscow undertook to repay the debts of all the former Soviet republics, in exchange for which they agreed to give Moscow their foreign property.
“The whole world was very happy” when Russia undertook to pay …