Tag: #ValadimirPutin
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COVID-19: Russia’s Putin protected by disinfection tunnel
Moscow, 17th June: Russian President is protected against the deadly coronavirus through a special disinfection tunnel that anyone visiting his residence must pass through. Russian President Vladimir Putin is protected from the novel coronavirus by a special disinfection tunnel that anyone visiting his residence outside Moscow must pass through, the state-controlled RIA news agency reported…
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Netanyahu to present Trump Mideast plan to Putin
Jerusalem, Jan 28 (AFP/APP): Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will travel to Moscow on Wednesday to present US President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan to Russian leader Vladimir Putin. Netanyahu, who is meeting Trump on Tuesday in Washington where the initiative will be unveiled, will head to Moscow the next day “to convey (the)…
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Putin’s ‘national projects’: billions to boost the economy
Moscow, Jan 22 (AFP/APP): Russian President Vladimir Putin is promising to invest tens of trillions of rubles in the country’s dilapidated infrastructure and other sectors over the next five years in a bid to kickstart anaemic economic growth. Russia’s new Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, who was appointed by Putin last week, vowed to shift into…
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Putin extends cash payouts for babies to counter population slump
Moscow, Jan 15 (AFP/APP): Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday announced new financial incentives to encourage Russians to have more children to boost the population. “Russia’s fate and its historic prospects depend on how many of us there are,” Putin said in an annual address to lawmakers. Russia is seeing falling birth rates because the…
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Medvedev: loyal ally exits after decades with Putin
Moscow, Jan 15 (AFP/APP): Dmitry Medvedev, who has lost his post as prime minister following the government’s resignation, served a single term as president before standing aside to allow Vladimir Putin’s return to the Kremlin in 2012. Subsequently the 54-year-old served as prime minister with diminishing powers and authority. In recent months, his approval rating…
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Ukraine rivals to exchange prisoners in controversial swap
Kramatorsk, Ukraine, Dec 29 (AFP/APP): Ukrainian authorities and pro-Russian separatists in the war-torn east of the country are expected Sunday to swap dozens of prisoners in a frontline operation that stirred controversy in Kiev. As part of the swap, Kiev is expected to hand over to separatists several riot policemen suspected of killing protesters during…
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Russia, Ukraine leaders in Paris for crunch talks on ending war
Paris, Dec 9 (AFP/APP): Russian leader Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Paris for summit talks Monday seen as a critical opportunity to take steps to end five years of conflict in the east of Ukraine. No comprehensive peace deal is expected from the meeting — mediated by French President Emmanuel Macron…
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Is Moscow using its frozen conflict playbook in Ukraine?
Moscow, Dec 9 (AFP/APP): As Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine’s leader Volodymyr Zelensky meet for the first time on Monday, many wonder what Moscow’s long-term goal is in strife-torn eastern Ukraine. The talks, mediated by France and Germany, will focus on implementing the Minsk accords — agreements drawn up in 2015 to end the…
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Putin vs Zelensky: two very different presidents face off
Moscow, Dec 8 (AFP/APP): When Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky meet on Monday it will be an encounter between two very different presidents — one an establishment strongman with years of experience, the other a neophyte rebel learning the ropes. The Russian and Ukrainian presidents will be holding their first face-to-face talks in Paris at…
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Putin and Zelensky in first talks to revive Ukraine peace efforts
Moscow, Dec 6 (AFP/APP): The leaders of Russia and Ukraine will meet on Monday for talks on the conflict in east Ukraine, in what could be a step forward in ending Europe’s only active war. The summit in Paris will mark the first time Russia’s Vladimir Putin meets face-to-face with Ukraine’s new comedian-turned-president, Volodymyr Zelensky.…