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SAINT PETERSBURG, Russia (AFP) — British Prime Minister David Cameron is holding a referendum on EU membership to “blackmail” and “scare” Europe, Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested Friday. “Why has he set up this referendum? To blackmail Europe? Or to scare it? What is the purpose if he himself is against” Britain leaving the European Union, Putin said during a meeting with representatives of news agencies, including AFP. “It’s not our business, it is the […]
(REUTERS) Britain, Germany and the United States advanced plans on Tuesday to spearhead a new NATO force on Russia’s border from next year, and Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered snap checks on combat readiness across his armed forces. Weeks before a critical NATO summit in Warsaw, three of NATO’s biggest military powers said they would each command a battalion across the eastern flank to help deter any show of force such as that deployed by […]
WASHINGTON , United States (AFP) — Donald Trump on Tuesday said he would speak with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, in what would be a dramatic shift in US policy. “I would speak to him, I would have no problem speaking to him,” the Republican presumptive presidential nominee told Reuters in an exclusive interview. Until now, the US strategy has been to try and isolate Pyongyang. “I would put a lot of pressure on China […]
PANAMA CITY, Panama (Reuters) – Panama’s President Juan Carlos Varela reaffirmed his country’s commitment to tax transparency after governments across the world began investigating possible financial wrongdoing by the rich and powerful after a leak of four decades of documents from a local law firm that specialized in setting up offshore companies. The “Panama Papers” revealed financial arrangements of politicians and public figures including friends of Russian President Vladimir Putin, relatives of the prime ministers […]
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) — US President Barack Obama warned Russia and Damacus that the “world will be watching”, hours before a partial truce was due to come into force in war-torn Syria on Saturday. Obama said “the coming days will be critical” for the ceasefire brokered by Moscow and Washington, and agreed to by both President Bashar al-Assad’s regime and Syria’s top opposition grouping. The deal — which excludes the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group and […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin is undermining international efforts to end the Syrian civil war by bombing opponents of Islamic State in an attempt to bolster Bashar al-Assad, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said on Monday (February 1) during a visit to the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan, about 10 km (six miles) south of the border with Syria. In a clear sign of frustration with the Kremlin, Hammond scolded Putin for paying lip service to […]
Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Paris on Monday in a meeting following the plenary session of the UN conference for climate change. The two presidents exchanged views on bilateral relations and discussed other issues of international and regional interest. Xi said the China-Russia bilateral comprehensive strategic partnership is developing at a steady pace and he believes it necessary for the two leaders to hold frequent meetings in order to […]
Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said, that Russian President Vladimir Putin will attend the Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit scheduled for November in the Philippines Senate president Franklin Drilon handed to Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov the invitation letter of President Benigno S. Aquinoo III Aquino to Putin. Lavrov expressed appreciation for Aquino’s invitation and said that Putin is looking forward to visiting manila in November. The Philippines is this year’s host of APEC meetings including […]
(Reuters) – The United States wants to subdue Moscow, but will never succeed, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday. “They do not want to humiliate us, they want to subdue us, solve their problems at our expense,” Putin said at the end of a four-hour meeting with his core support group, the People’s Front. “No one in history ever managed to achieve this with Russia, and no one ever will,” he said, triggering a wave […]
(Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin plans to leave the G20 summit early, a member of his delegation said, after Western leaders blasted Moscow on Saturday for the crisis in Ukraine and threatened more sanctions. The Russian official told Reuters that Putin planned to skip a working session on Sunday at the two-day summit in Brisbane and bring forward his departure because he needed to attend meetings in Moscow. Russia denied it was involved in a recent escalation of military […]
Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe have dropped plans to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin this year in Tokyo due to rising tensions between the two countries, since Japan supported the economic sanctions against Russia in its support of Ukranian rebels.
Russian president Vladimir Putin is calling for talks of “statehood” in eastern Ukraine.
