Tag: Vladimir Putin

• Wednesday, May 29th 2024 - 21:09 UTC

  Bolivian President meeting Putin in Russia next week

  

  Bolivian President Luis Arce Catacora will be traveling to Russia next week for an encounter with Vladimir Putin, it was confirmed in La Paz Wednesday. Putin and Arce last held a telephone conversation on May 13 to advance bilateral cooperation issues. As war preparedness rises globally, Bolivia's role as that of a country hosting Iranian troops and guns cannot be ignored.

• Tuesday, March 19th 2024 - 12:02 UTC

  Russian presidential elections 2024: Foreign Secretary's statement

  

  The Foreign Secretary condemns electoral violations and the suppression of opposition voices during the Russian elections, as well as the breaches of Ukrainian sovereignty in conducting elections on Ukrainian territory.

• Tuesday, March 19th 2024 - 09:00 UTC

  The West can’t ‘solve’ its Russia problem: Here’s how it should handle six more years of Vladimir Putin

  

  By Peter Tesch - In perhaps the least surprising news of the year, Vladimir Putin has triumphed at the Russian ballot box and been enthroned for the fifth time as president. He will serve for six more years. He will be 77 years old in 2030. According to the constitution, which he re-wrote to his benefit in 2020, he then could stand again for a further six-year term.

• Friday, February 16th 2024 - 11:50 UTC

  Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalni dies in prison

  

  Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalni died suddenly today in the Arctic prison where he has been held since last December, Russia's prison services said.

• Friday, December 22nd 2023 - 10:15 UTC

  Putin and Maduro highlight importance of multipolar world order

  

  Presidents Vladimir Putin of Russia and Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela held a telephone conversation Thursday during which they agreed on the need for “a fair multipolar order,” it was reported. They also discussed the territorial dispute with Guyana over the oil-rich Essequibo region.

• Wednesday, October 18th 2023 - 13:54 UTC

  Russian parliament following Putin's orders revoked ratification of the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

  

  Russia's lower house of parliament, the Duma, on Tuesday voted in favor of withdrawing the ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier this month suggested that Russia revoke ratification of the treaty because the United States, alongside other powers, had never ratified it.

• Tuesday, September 5th 2023 - 10:20 UTC

  China's President not attending G20 Summit in New Delhi

  

  China's President Xi Jinping Monday announced he would not be attending the Sept. 9-10 G20 Summit in New Delhi and that his country would be represented by Prime Minister Li Qiang. Xi has attended every G20 summit since coming to power except Rome in 2021 when he participated by video link.

• Wednesday, July 19th 2023 - 10:30 UTC

  South Africa will not arrest Putin when he joins BRICS summit in Johannesburg

  

  Any attempt to arrest Vladimir Putin when he visits South Africa would be a declaration of war against Russia, the country's president has said. Cyril Ramaphosa made the warning with weeks to go before the international meeting of BRICS, happens in Johannesburg, to which the Russian president is invited.

• Thursday, June 29th 2023 - 07:23 UTC

  What just happened in Russia?

  

  By Gwynne Dyer - Hundreds of analysts in a dozen countries are working on that mystery right now because Russia is still an important place and Putin’s power has clearly been damaged by this bizarre incident

• Monday, June 19th 2023 - 08:18 UTC

  Ramophosa tells Putin Ukraine war needs to end

  

  South African President Cyril Ramaphosa told his Russian colleague Vladimir Putin during the weekend that the war in Ukraine must “come to an end” because it “has a negative impact on the African continent and of course on many other countries around the world.”