Tag: Vladimir Putin

• Saturday, June 20th 2015 - 09:16 UTC

  Buenos Aires/Moscow close ties are “a fact, not a wish”, says Argentine minister Kicillof

  

  Argentine Economy Minister Axel Kicillof speaking from Moscow said ties between Buenos Aires and Russia were “a fact, not a wish” praising the bilateral “natural understanding” and “complementation”, achieved by the two partners in economic, energy and trade affairs.

• Friday, June 12th 2015 - 05:24 UTC

  Pope tells Putin “a sincere and great effort” was needed for peace in Ukraine

  

  Barely a few days after Europe’s most powerful leaders presented a common front on Russian sanctions; President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia landed in Italy and met privately with Pope Francis at the Vatican, his second audience with the pope in the past 18 months.

• Friday, June 5th 2015 - 06:33 UTC

  Falklands: Cristina Fernandez met Snowden in Moscow to talk about UK spying on Argentina, reveals BAH

  

  President Cristina Fernandez met with former US National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden when she visited Moscow in April, according to the Buenos Aires Herald. Snowden became world famous when in 2013 when he revealed the extent of Washington’s global Internet and phone surveillance.

• Friday, May 29th 2015 - 08:41 UTC

  Putin claims US seeks to derail Russia's 2018 World Cup plans

  

  Russian president Vladimir Putin waded into the FIFA scandal by accusing the United States of interfering in FIFA affairs after the US Justice Department ordered Swiss police to arrest seven senior FIFA officials on Wednesday. They were among nine current and former FIFA officials indicted.

• Sunday, May 24th 2015 - 08:13 UTC

  Obama and Putin congratulate Cristina Fernandez and Argentina on 25 May, National Day

  

  US President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, have sent letters to President Cristina Fernández to salute the head of state and congratulate the Argentine people on the anniversary of the May Revolution.

• Saturday, April 25th 2015 - 05:08 UTC

  Falklands and replacing the dollar, priorities for Argentina/Moscow agenda, argues Russian ex diplomat

  

  The cooperation agreements recently signed by Argentina with Russia could be a Buenos Aires' response to the situation with the disputed Falkland Islands territories, former Russian ambassador to Argentina Evgeny Astakhov told the Russian news agency, Sputnik International on Friday.

• Friday, April 24th 2015 - 08:08 UTC

  EU regulators Russia's Gazprom of abusing dominant position; fine could reach 16bn

  

  Russia’s biggest gas utility, Gazprom, was hit with an antitrust case by European Union regulators for “abusing” its dominant position and overcharging customers for gas supplies. The investigation against the Gazprom has been ongoing for two years.

• Friday, April 24th 2015 - 07:51 UTC

  Russia and Argentina agree on an “all-encompassing strategic partnership”

  

  Russia and Argentina signed agreements which amounted to an “all-encompassing strategic partnership” during Argentine President Cristina Fernandez visit to Moscow, which ended on Thursday with the meeting at the Kremlin with her counterpart Vladimir Putin.

• Friday, April 24th 2015 - 07:36 UTC

  CFK from the Kremlin praises Russia's support for Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty claim

  

  President Cristina Fernandez, CFK, on an official visit to Russia met at the Kremlin with Vladimir Putin and praised Moscow’s support to Argentina in the dispute with the United Kingdom over the sovereignty of the Falklands/Malvinas Islands as well as in the legal battle against speculative funds suing the country over its defaulted bonds.

• Thursday, April 23rd 2015 - 04:50 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez invites Russian investors to Argentina; Thursday she meets Putin

  

  “Argentina is a country where it is worth investing in and producing, not only because of its natural resources, also because of the human resources we have” said president Cristina Fernández in Moscow on an official visit to Russia. She praised the “recovery of Argentina's flag carrier that allows connectivity among all the zones in the country, not only the richest ones.”