Speaking on Thursday as part of the Russian First Channel’s ‘Big Game’ TV program, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov stressed that “contact is badly needed, we have multiplying problems. There is no progression on bilateral affairs, which are more and more spiraling into a phase of acute crisis.” Moscow has mooted the …
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Speaking to a group of newly-arrived ambassadors in the Kremlin on Wednesday, Putin said that his country will “insist on guarantees being set out to exclude the possibility of NATO moving any further to the east, and deploying threatening weapons close to Russian territory.” “I would like to emphasize that …
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“As for Biden’s announcement about his possible re-election, I think he was absolutely correct to do so,” Putin said. “Because if election preparations were already beginning in America, the management of the country would suffer significantly,” he continued. “The president of the US doesn’t need my feedback, but I think …
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Speaking to gathered experts, Putin called the development of high-speed missiles as a “necessary” response to “Western actions.” “We have already successfully conducted tests, and from the beginning of the year we will have in service a sea-based hypersonic missile of Mach 9,” Putin said. Although he didn’t name the …
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The mega-project, completed in September after numerous roadblocks, is still far from supplying European customers, due to approval hurdles in the EU. What is Nord Stream 2? The 1,230-kilometer-long route is a new export gas pipeline running from Russia across the Baltic Sea to Germany. It runs parallel to the …
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Armenia’s PM Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev were hosted by Putin in the southern Russian resort city of Sochi on Friday. Ahead of the trilateral talks, Putin held separate talks with Aliev, and later spoke tete-a-tete with Pashinyan after the three-way meeting. The talks proved to be very …
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Speaking at a meeting of government officials on Wednesday, Putin confirmed that he had received the nasal formula, alongside a booster shot. “They asked me to breathe in deeply and count to three,” the Russian president said, adding that he didn’t feel anything during the process. “Six months after my …
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Lukashenko refused to entertain the idea after he was asked, in an interview with British state broadcaster BBC, about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s suggestion that the authorities in Minsk should begin discussions with their political opponents. Lukashenko explicitly named exiled opposition figure Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, who is now based in Lithuania. …
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Putin, who was fully vaccinated this spring, revealed on Sunday he was re-vaccinated with the single-dose Sputnik Light jab. The president added that he was feeling no adverse effects hours after getting the vaccine. The revelation to the public came as Putin met the deputy director of Sputnik’s developer, Gamaleya …
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Work is already underway on a potential meeting between the two leaders, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told TV channel Russia 1 on Sunday.The senior diplomat said Washington had made some claims regarding Moscow, including those related to the situation in Ukraine. Russia feels the need to “explain in …
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