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The former president, who looks set to win the party nomination for another White House run, can be expected to bring the US more in alignment with Putin’s Russia, with help from the likes of senators Tom Cotton and Ted Cruz.
The names of those sanctioned are set to be released after the EU measures are formally adopted in the coming days. Kremlin critic Navalny died in an Arctic prison on February 16.
President Vladimir Putin hailed the ‘return’ to Russia of annexed Ukrainian territories, after winning an election slammed as illegitimate by Western powers.
Vladimir Putin spoke about the risk of war with the West after he won Russia’s presidential election by a landslide.
Vladimir Putin spoke about relations with China after he won Russia’s presidential election by a landslide.
US President Joe Biden on Donald Trump: ‘Don’t tell him, he thinks he’s running against Barack Obama’.
Russian president’s election victory will extend his nearly quarter-century of rule for six more years.
The campaign comes as pro-Ukrainian groups aim to sabotage the three-day vote such as through arson attacks.
The United States currently stations some 1,000 troops in Niger at a desert drone base built at a cost of US$100 million.
2 people were killed and an oil facility in Russia was set ablaze by bombardments on the second day of presidential polls.
Among the steps that have been discussed is ending national airline Iran Air’s flights to Europe.
The president accused Kyiv of seeking to disrupt the poll by shelling Russian territory and sending soldiers to try to pierce his country’s borders.
Concerns about Beijing’s potential to threaten US national security have spurred several bills seeking more scrutiny about who is representing Chinese interests.
Joint exercises in Gulf of Oman focus on rescuing hijacked merchant ships and feature Chinese and Iranian special ops teams and PLA guided-missile destroyer.
Voters headed to the polls in Russia on Friday for a three-day presidential election that is all but certain to extend President Vladimir Putin’s rule by six more years.
Readers discuss the US’ approach to two major conflicts, and the danger of an escalation of fighting in Ukraine.
Ukraine’s embassy in South Korea said Moscow was leveraging cultural events to justify war and genocide as a form of cultural weaponisation
Putin said in the interview published on Wednesday that Russia was technically ready for nuclear war and that if the US sent troops to Ukraine, it would be considered a significant escalation of the conflict.
The increased funding, which will run from 2024 to 2028, will be used to boost Denmark’s military capacity and provide aid to Ukraine.
Putin made his comments ahead of the March 15-17 presidential election that he is certain to win for another six years in power.
The arrest of Baek Kwang-soon comes as relations between Seoul and Moscow have deteriorated since the Ukraine war, while ties between Moscow and Pyongyang have grown closer.
President Vladimir Putin warned the West that Russia was technically ready for nuclear war and that if the US sent troops to Ukraine it would be considered a significant escalation of the war.
Assault left Leonid Volkov, a close ally of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, with a broken arm: ‘They literally wanted to make a schnitzel out of me’.
Ukrainian long-range drones smashed into two oil facilities deep inside Russia, while an armed incursion claimed by anti-Kremlin fighters unnerved a border region just days before Russia’s presidential election.