Tag: Vladimir Putin

• Monday, November 12th 2018 - 08:37 UTC

  Macron describes nationalism as “a betrayal of patriotism”

  

  French President Emmanuel Macron has urged world leaders marking the centenary of the World War One Armistice to reject nationalism. Addressing leaders in Paris, including US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin - he described it as a “betrayal of patriotism”.

• Saturday, November 3rd 2018 - 23:57 UTC

  Russia to help Cuba finance acquisition of military equipment

  

  Russia has agreed to assist Cuba purchase modern weaponry by means of a 38-million-euro credit line, Deputy Finance Minister Sergei Storchak explained Friday after talks between Presidents Vladimir Putin and Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez at the Kremlin.

• Friday, October 19th 2018 - 02:29 UTC

  Turkish police searching for Saudi journalist remains in outskirts of Istanbul

  

  Turkish police are searching a forest on the outskirts of Istanbul and a city near the Sea of Marmara for remains of a Saudi dissident journalist who disappeared two weeks ago after entering the Saudi consulate, two Turkish officials said.

• Tuesday, October 9th 2018 - 08:47 UTC

  Salisbury poisoning: second Russian involved is allegedly a military intelligence doctor

  

  The name of the second suspect in the Salisbury case is actually Alexander Mishkin, the BBC understands. The Bellingcat investigative website says the man who travelled under the alias Alexander Petrov is in reality a military doctor working for Russian intelligence, the GRU.

• Friday, September 14th 2018 - 09:32 UTC

  Skripal poisoning case: Russian official television mockingly interviews the two “civilian” suspects

  

  Two men named as suspects in the poisoning of a Russian ex-spy in the UK have said they were merely tourists. The men, named as Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, told the state-run RT channel they had travelled to Salisbury on the recommendation of friends. The UK believes the men are Russian military intelligence officers who tried to kill Russian ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury last March.

• Thursday, September 13th 2018 - 09:58 UTC

  Skripal case: Russia locates alleged murderers, but they are “civilians”, Putin said

  

  President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday Russia had found the two men accused by British prosecutors of trying to murder ex- Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Britain, but that there was nothing criminal about them.

• Tuesday, July 24th 2018 - 06:21 UTC

  Foreign secretary pleads for more EU flexibility in Brexit talks: fears of a “no deal by accident”

  

  A no-deal Brexit would damage British relations with Europe for a generation, Jeremy Hunt warned as he pleaded for Brussels to show more flexibility in negotiations. The Foreign Secretary used a visit to Berlin to say that while a failure to achieve a Brexit deal would be “challenging” for the UK, it would “thrive” in the long term.

• Friday, July 20th 2018 - 07:02 UTC

  Trump invites Putin to the White House; summit in Helsinki remains a mystery

  

  President Donald Trump has invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to Washington this autumn, the White House said on Thursday, a daring rebuttal to the torrent of criticism in the United States over Trump’s failure to publicly confront Putin at their first summit for Moscow’s meddling in the 2016 election.

• Tuesday, July 17th 2018 - 09:49 UTC

  US Congress furious after Trump sides with Putin, saying “no Russian meddling in US elections”

  

  There has been a barrage of criticism in the United States after President Donald Trump defended Russia over claims of interference in the 2016 elections. At a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Finland, on Monday, Trump contradicted US intelligence agencies, saying Russia had no reason to meddle.

• Monday, July 16th 2018 - 07:42 UTC

  Infantino praises Russia and Putin for “the best World Cup ever”

  

  Gianni Infantino praised the organization of the Russia World Cup and restates that the first Middle East host could expand the tournament. Speaking at FIFA’s closing press conference of the four-week World Cup, the FIFA president said: ”For a couple of years, I was saying this would be the best World Cup ever, today I can say it with more conviction because I lived it and you lived it. It is the best World Cup ever.”