Tag: Vladimir Putin

• Friday, December 10th 2010 - 06:15 UTC

  Russia’s Putin says Assange arrest shows the West has problems with democracy

  

  Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has said the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange shows the West has its own problems with democracy.

• Thursday, August 12th 2010 - 20:31 UTC

  Russian drought and fires catches the US with record crops of corn and soybeans

  

  Russian President Dmitri Medvedev says a full one-quarter of Russia's grain crops have been destroyed by weeks of drought and wildfires, leaving many Russian farmers close to bankruptcy.