Western nations have mismanaged the global economy, and the entire world is now paying the price for their incompetence, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday. He made the claim during an address ahead of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF). The annual international event, which is hosted by …
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Russia will hit targets it has so far not struck if long-range missiles are delivered to Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned. “If they are supplied, we will draw the appropriate conclusions and use our weapons, which we have enough of, in order to strike at those objects that …
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Global grain prices have fallen to April levels following Russian President Vladimir Putin’s promise to ensure the safe export of Ukrainian grain through Black Sea ports controlled by Russia. Wheat was trading at $10.4 per bushel (27.2kg) on Friday, data from the Chicago Board of Trade shows. That was its …
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Inflation in the US is a consequence of mistakes by American financial authorities, which they admitted to, while in the EU it has more to do with short-sighted energy policies in Brussels, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday. Either way, it has nothing to do with Moscow or its …
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The restrictions imposed by the US and its allies against Russia and Belarus will only exacerbate the looming global food crisis by affecting the fertilizer trade and sending food prices even higher, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said. In a special TV interview on Friday evening following a meeting with African …
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The looming global food crisis that could result from skyrocketing food prices was enabled by a series of policy mistakes by Washington and Brussels in recent years, Maksim Oreshkin told RT. The conflict in Ukraine alone could not have caused the crisis on such a massive scale, Oreshkin, the economic …
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Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold phone talks with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said. Asked by Russian media on Sunday whether the rumored talks would take place, the official said the conversation was “in the plans.” Earlier in the day, the …
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Russian President Vladimir Putin held a phone call on Saturday with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron. Blaming Ukraine for freezing peace talks, Putin assured the Europeans that Moscow remained ready to negotiate an end to the ongoing conflict, and condemned the West for flooding the neighboring …
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree stating that certain foreign copyright holders may be paid in rubles, expanding on previous counter-measures against companies based in “unfriendly countries” that are currently imposing sanctions on Moscow. Published on a government website on Friday, the executive order extends the existing special …
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President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia is not going to leave the global economic arena despite Western attempts to squeeze it out. It is simply impossible, he stressed. According to Putin, who was addressing the Eurasian Economic Forum via video link, the countries that are seeking to harm Russia …
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