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“This is an attempt to interfere with the presidential election,” Putin said. Moscow: President Vladimir Putin said Friday that his military would respond to a string of Ukrainian attacks on Russia that he described as an attempt by Kyiv to derail presidential elections. Russian border regions this week have been targeted by fatal Ukrainian bombardments…
In this photo released by Official news Channel of the Administration of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Urban District, A woman casts a ballot at a polling station during a presidential election in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, the capital of Kamchatka Peninsula region, 6 797 km (4248 miles) east of Moscow, Russia, on March 15, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP Voters headed…
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BJP workers celebrate after the announcement of Union Minister for Road Transport and Highway Nitin Gadkari’s name as the party’s candidate from Nagpur constituency for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, in Nagpur, on March 13, 2024. | Photo Credit: PTI Ram Nath Kovind-led panel may submit report on simultaneous polls on March 14 The high-level…
Putin said Finland and Sweden’s entry into NATO is ‘a meaningless step’. Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday vowed to deploy its troops and strike systems near the Finnish border following its accession to NATO, Al Jazeera reported. Putin said Finland and Sweden’s entry into NATO is ‘a meaningless step’, adding that Russia will…
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that the country would be ready to use nuclear weapons if its sovereignty was threatened. File | Photo Credit: AP Russia remains in a state of combat readiness and is fully ready for a nuclear war, but not “everything is rushing to it” at present, President Vladimir Putin said…
Thousands of Russians braved the cold for hours earlier this month to honour the Opposition politician Alexei Navalny after his funeral. They chanted anti-war slogans and covered his gravesite with so many flowers that it disappeared from view. It was one of the largest displays of defiance against President Vladimir Putin since he invaded Ukraine,…
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi and Director General of Russian nuclear company Rosatom Alexey Likhachev in Sochi, Russia, March 6, 2024. | Photo Credit: REUTERS International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi described his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin this…
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Diplomats say his views give an indication of thinking at the top levels of the Kremlin elite. Moscow: Dmitry Medvedev, an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, called Joe Biden a “mad” disgrace to the United States on Friday and said the U.S. president had no right to compare himself to Franklin D. Roosevelt. Biden…
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Two years on, where does the Ukraine war stand? Russia’s war in Ukraine has entered its third year. What many thought on February 24, 2022 would be a swift Russian military operation against its smaller neighbour has turned out to be the largest land war in Europe since the end of the Second World War….
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Russian police detain a man trying to lay flowers at a monument in St. Petersburg to honour Alexei Navalny on Feb. 17, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP When charismatic opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was gunned down on a bridge near the Kremlin in February 2015, more than 50,000 Muscovites expressed their shock and outrage the…
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