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Western nations that are trying to punish others with economic sanctions are overestimating their strength, Russian President Vladimir Putin said during the Eurasian Economic Forum on Thursday. “More and more countries in the world want and will pursue independent policy,” he said at the international event. “No ‘world policeman’ can halt this …

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu visited some of the soldiers wounded during the conflict in Ukraine on Wednesday. After touring the central military hospital in Moscow, Putin said all of the troops deployed abroad – and families of the fallen – should be compensated. Putin’s schedule …

Unless Moscow is defeated in Ukraine quickly, the collective West won’t be able to address climate change in time to save civilization, billionaire financier George Soros told the World Economic Forum in Davos on Tuesday. He also called Russia and China the greatest threats to his concept of open society. …

The Russian economy will “certainly remain open, even in the new conditions,” President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday, stating that partnerships will be strengthened with amenable countries. “We will expand cooperation with those countries that are interested in mutually beneficial cooperation,” Putin said. He highlighted the importance of developing a …

Secretary of State Antony Blinken has invoked a Taylor Swift hit to send a message to President Putin that Russia-US ties, devastated by the situation in Ukraine, are not about to improve. Giving a commencement address at Georgetown University on Saturday, Blinken started by comparing himself to the 11-time Grammy …

Former US President George W. Bush made an embarrassing gaffe, perhaps a Freudian slip, when speaking on the importance of democracy and threats to democracy from abroad, and taking aim specifically at Russia.  “Russian elections are rigged,” he said. “Political opponents are imprisoned or otherwise eliminated from participating in the …

The attempt by the US to take over Ukraine’s grain reserves may spark a humanitarian crisis in the country and lead to grain shortages globally, Maksim Oreshkin, an aide to President Vladimir Putin, said on Thursday. According to the official, a global famine could break out by this coming fall. …

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that energy inflation in Western countries should be blamed on their own mistakes, and not on Russia. The EU is committing economic suicide by trying to wean itself off from Russian energy resources, Putin said. “Such an economic auto-da-fé, suicide is, of course, …

Estonia’s Prime Minister Kaja Kallas has urged fellow world leaders to stop calling Vladimir Putin, as the international attention, in her opinion, prevents the Russian president from properly feeling his ‘isolation.’ In an interview with EURACTIV on Monday, Kallas suggested that, at present, amid Moscow’s ongoing military offensive in Ukraine, …

The possible accession of Finland and Sweden to NATO does not represent an immediate threat to Russia but the expansion of the alliance’s military infrastructure will “certainly” prompt a response from Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday. On Sunday, the two Nordic countries officially announced their NATO membership …