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Montevideo, December 23rd 2024 - 14:37 UTC

Tag: Vladimir Putin

  • Monday, June 30th 2014 - 06:30 UTC

    Argentina, 'a key partner' of Russia says Putin ahead of his Buenos Aires visit

    Putin will be at the World Cup final and at the BRICS summit in Fortaleza

    As part of a broader South American tour, Russian President Vladimir Putin will be visiting Buenos Aires in July to lay the groundwork for joint projects between Russia and Argentina in the energy sector, including civilian nuclear technologies, military-technological cooperation and machine building.

  • Tuesday, June 10th 2014 - 08:07 UTC

    At least twenty world leaders will attend the World Cup; eleven the opening match in Sao Paulo

    Dilma next to Ban Ki-moon and eleven other world leaders will be on Thursday at the opening ceremony

    At least eleven heads of state and government have confirmed their attendance at the opening ceremony of the World Cup, next Thursday (12th), in São Paulo, and a total of 20 leaders will be watching World Cup matches.

  • Thursday, May 22nd 2014 - 00:46 UTC

    Russia's Weakened Hand Could Pay Off For Beijing In Major Gas Deal

    Presidents Putin and Xi Jinping in Beijing when the final agreement was announced

    A major gas deal between Russia and China was finally sealed this week when Russian President Vladimir Putin was on a two day visit to China on May 20-21 and met with President Xi Jinping. In the lead up to Putin's arrival, the two sides have been working on putting the finishing touches on a 30-year contract for a gas deal a decade in the making, and Russian officials have suggested that the deal will be completed by Putin's arrival.

  • Tuesday, May 6th 2014 - 22:52 UTC

    Why hasn't the U.S. gone after Gazprom?

    Russia supplies one third of the gas consumed by the European Union

    By John C.K. Daly - Amidst the deepening war of words over Moscow's annexation of Crimea, U.S. President Barack Obama on April 28 added more Russian individuals and companies to a sanctions list that already included influential members of Russian President Vladimir Putin's inner circle and Bank Rossiya, which has close ties to the Russian leadership.

  • Monday, May 5th 2014 - 06:47 UTC

    West will never go to war over non-NATO Ukraine

    Putin: to invade or not to invade Ukraine

    By Gwynne Dyer - With due apologies to God, Voltaire and the Ukrainians, I must point out that if Ukraine did not exist, it would not be necessary to invent it.It is not a great power, it has no resources the world cannot do without, and it is not a “vital strategic interest” to anybody except the Ukrainians. Not even to the Russians, although they are acting at the moment as though it were.

  • Saturday, May 3rd 2014 - 05:48 UTC

    President Putin re-editing Soviet-Stalin Russia calendar and traditions

    Putin awarded “Hero of Labor” medals in the Kremlin and is preparing a major military parade on 9 May

    Russia staged a huge May Day parade on Moscow's Red Square for the first time since the Soviet era with workers holding banners proclaiming support for President Vladimir Putin after the seizure of territory from neighboring Ukraine.

  • Monday, April 28th 2014 - 07:39 UTC

    Putin is losing Eastern European energy gamble

    “Can they stop buying Russian gas?” “In my opinion it is impossible”, said the Russian president

    Russian President Vladimir Putin said he doesn't think the European community can do without the natural gas it gets from energy monopoly Gazprom. With a Russian economy starting to decline, however, it may be Gazprom that's too strongly interconnected to the European market to break free.

  • Wednesday, April 16th 2014 - 10:01 UTC

    Ukraine falling to economic warfare and its own missteps

    Putin has called for payment of 38 billion from Ukraine, the result of unpaid gas sales

    As protests in Ukraine's eastern region turned violent on Sunday leading to the death of a Ukrainian security officer in a shootout with pro-Russian militia, Kiev threatens military action while Moscow flexes its geo-economic warfare muscles.

  • Wednesday, March 26th 2014 - 07:49 UTC

    Putin rings Cristina Fernandez to praise her Falklands/Crimea double-standard argument

    Putin and Cristina Fernandez during the G20 summit in St Petersburg

    Russia’s Vladimir Putin called President Cristina Fernández and praised Argentina’s position against the “double standard” of world powers in the resolution of international conflicts. The Argentine leader appealed to the examples of Crimea and the Falkland Islands' referendum in her statements last week in France.

  • Saturday, March 22nd 2014 - 12:12 UTC

    Putin formalizes Russia's takeover of Crimea despite US and EU sanctions

    The Russian president signs the law ensuring control of a territory considered strategic for Moscow

    With a display of fireworks in Moscow and Crimea, President Vladimir Putin has signed a law formalizing Russia's takeover of Crimea from Ukraine, despite fresh sanctions from the EU and the US. The European Union's latest measures target twelve people involved in Russia's annexation of the peninsula.