Ukraine: Deadlines
“I love deadlines,” said Douglas Adams, author of ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’. “I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.” Donald Trump sets deadlines ...
Our View: Putin plays for time with Trump talks
President Donald Trump said “great progress was made” in Wednesday’s talks on ending the war in Ukraine between his special envoy Steve Witkoff and Russian president Vladimir Putin. Nothing ...
Russia ‘playing with diplomacy’, says Zelenskiy after 900 strikes
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday that mass Russian air attacks on Ukrainian targets were the “political choice” of Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin and he called for intensified pressure ...
Kremlin says ‘let’s see’ if Trump victory will help end Ukraine war
The Kremlin reacted cautiously on Wednesday after Donald Trump was elected U.S. president, saying the U.S. was still a hostile state and that only time would tell if ...
Kremlin rejects ‘absurd’ US accusations of election meddling
The Kremlin on Tuesday dismissed as absurd U.S. intelligence assertions that Russia is seeking to meddle in the presidential election and said that U.S. spies were intent on ...
Putin ‘won majority of votes in Cyprus’
Russian President Vladimir Putin won the majority of votes cast across the divide in Cyprus during this month’s Russian presidential elections, according to Kibris Postasi.
The newspaper reported that ...
Anti-war challenger Duntsova barred from running against Putin (Update 2)
Former TV journalist Yekaterina Duntsova was disqualified on Saturday from running against President Vladimir Putin in an election next March because of alleged flaws in her application to register as ...
Putin tells Poland any aggression against Belarus is attack on Russia
President Vladimir Putin on Friday accused NATO member Poland of having territorial ambitions in the former Soviet Union, and said any aggression against Russia’s neighbour and close ally Belarus ...
Russian defence ministry says Wagner is completing handover of its weapons
The Wagner mercenary group is completing its handover of weapons to Russia’s regular armed forces, the Russian Defence ministry said on Wednesday, more than two weeks after the group ...
UN ends peacekeeping mission in Mali, US blames Russia’s Wagner (Updated)
The United Nations Security Council on Friday unanimously voted on Friday to end a decade-long peacekeeping mission in Mali after the West African country’s military junta abruptly asked the 13,000...
Putin orders mobilisation for Ukraine, says nuclear threat is ‘not a bluff’
President Vladimir Putin ordered the mobilisation of hundreds of thousands of Russians to fight in Ukraine on Wednesday, while moving to annex Ukrainian territory and making what Washington denounced as ...
Putin backs Cyprus solution based on UN resolutions
The Russian Federation was and is in favour of a universal, just and sustainable settlement of the Cyprus problem based on UN security council resolutions, Russian President Vladimir Putin said ...
Putin approves new foreign policy doctrine based on ‘Russian World’
President Vladimir Putin on Monday approved a new foreign policy doctrine based around the concept of a “Russian World”, a notion that conservative ideologues have used to justify intervention abroad ...
Humouring Putin
The geopolitical question of the moment is: how important is it to humour Russian leader Vladimir Putin? The answer is: not very. Throw him a fish or two, because he’...
Putin says unilateral actions on Varosha ‘unacceptable’
Unilateral actions that violate UN Security Council Resolutions on Varosha are unacceptable, Russian President Vladimir Putin has told President Nicos Anastasiades, the Cyprus presidency said on Monday.
It said that ...
Jailed Kremlin critic Navalny makes allegations of Putin wealth ahead of protests
Alexei Navalny, President Vladimir Putin’s most prominent critic who was jailed at the weekend, on Tuesday released a video in which he and his allies alleged that an opulent ...