Tag: Vladimir Putin

• Tuesday, February 15th 2022 - 09:11 UTC

  US relocates Ukrainian embassy as a precaution

  

  The Government of the United States has decided to temporarily shift its Embassy in Ukraine from Kiev to Lviv, near the Polish border, as a precaution amid mounting rumors of a Russian invasion allegedly scheduled for Feb.16, just when Presidents Vladimir Putin and Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro are to meet in Moscow.

• Monday, February 14th 2022 - 21:30 UTC

  Bolsonaro lands in Moscow for talks with Putin

  

  Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro turned a deaf ear to the US State Department's advice and has already landed at Moscow, where he is to meet with Russian leader Vladimir Putin amid mounting fears of all-out war in Ukraine.

• Monday, February 14th 2022 - 07:56 UTC

   Russia-Nato war over Ukraine remains a distant possibility

  

  By Gwynne Dyer - On January 18 US secretary of state Antony Blinken said that “our assessment has been that (a Russian invasion of Ukraine) could happen any time between mid-January and mid-February”.

• Monday, February 14th 2022 - 07:45 UTC

  Bolsonaro visits new populist friends, “strong man Putin” and Hungary's Viktor Orban

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is scheduled to arrive in Russia on Tuesday for an official visit, which has been described at a highly awkward diplomatic timing, given the stand-off in Ukraine between Moscow and the Western alliance.

• Thursday, February 10th 2022 - 21:24 UTC

  Moscow leaves only essential workers at Kiev embassy

  

  The Russian government of President Vladimir Putin Thursday asked all non-essential staff at the embassy in Kiev to leave Ukraine as joint military drills with Belarus started near the border.

• Monday, February 7th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  Argentina's closeness to China, Russia worries London amid Ukraine crisis

  

  London is noticing Argentine President Alberto Fernández's foreign policy, particularly Sunday's joint written statement whereby the South American country backed China's claim over Taiwan and, in return, the Government of Xi Jinping supported Argentina's sovereignty quest regarding the Falkland Islands.

• Saturday, February 5th 2022 - 14:03 UTC

  Ambassador Stanley holds talks with Argentine Cabinet Chief Manzur

  

  Following Argentine President Alberto Fernández's remarks to his Russian colleague Vladimir Putin in Moscow, according to which the South American country needed to be freer from the United States and the International Monetary Fund, Washington's envoy to Buenos Aires held a meeting Friday with Cabinet Chief Juan Manzur.

• Saturday, February 5th 2022 - 09:47 UTC

  Former German chancellor criticized for being member of Russian energy companies' boards

  

  In the midst of the conflicting situation between NATO and the US, with Russia, regarding a possible invasion of Ukraine and which has the European continent on the edge, a former German chancellor was appointed to the supervisory board of the Russian state-owned gas giant Gazprom, one of the largest energy corporations in the world.

• Thursday, February 3rd 2022 - 23:00 UTC

  Argentina's dependency on US needs to stop, President Fernández tells Putin

  

  President Alberto Fernández Thursday told his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Moscow that “Argentina has to stop having such a great dependency on the IMF and the United States.”

• Tuesday, January 25th 2022 - 20:57 UTC

  Johnson warns Russian mothers their sons will not return if Putin attacks Ukraine

  

  United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson Tuesday launched a warning to Russian mothers, saying that their sons were not likely to return home if President Vladimir Putin chose to invade Ukraine, as tensions in the region escalate.