…Putin said he still needed to read the Russian bill in detail, though he backed it in principle. The rate of adoption in Russia is low. Some 3,400 Russian children were adopted by foreign families in 2011, nearly a third of them by Americans. “The State Duma’s response may be emotional, but I consider it to be appropriate,” Vladimir Putin said, referring to Russia’s lower…
…ce, and fell out with his partner Nikolai Shamalov. “I hadn’t worked 15 hours a day for 10 years to build a palace,” he says. “That didn’t interest me.” In December 2010, Sergei Kolesnikov wrote an open letter to President Dmitry Medvedev detailing the involvement of himself and others in the project and outlining his allegations against Vladimir Putin, then pri…
…thing on us.” Slogans on the banner included “Putin – our president” and “We believe in Putin”. Vladimir Putin, who supported Dmitry Medvedev in the Kremlin race in 2008 and became prime minister because of a constitutional ban on a third consecutive term as president, will now be in office until 2018. He could then run for another six-year term. There was tight…
…t. “Boys, girls you are great. Not only are you having fun while riding your bikes but you are also combining it with patriotic deeds.” Vladimir Putin’s party, United Russia, intends to secure a 2/3 majority in December’s elections for the Duma lower house of parliament. The 2/3 majority would give United Russia the power to change the constitution. It seems campaigning began for real…
…nd [had] numerous sexual affairs”. Vladimir Putin, 59, a former Russian President who is expected to return to power next year, headed Soviet intelligence operations in the East German city from 1985 to 1990. The files were discovered by BND expert Erich Schmidt-Eenboom, author of several books and papers on the spy agency. Lyudmila Putin once damned her husband with faint praise by confidin…
…mount leader, opinion polls show Vladimir Putin enjoys higher ratings than most Western politicians, but they are down from their peak during the oil-fuelled economic boom of his first presidency from 2000 until 2008….
…ched along Sakharov Avenue, a few miles from the Kremlin, in sub-zero temperatures. Rallies were taking place across Russia, with the first big protest in the far eastern city of Vladivostok. At least 28,000 people turned out in the capital, according to the Russian interior ministry, but rally organizers said the true number was around 120,000. President Dmitry Medvedev announced political reform…
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin took a picture pretending to give Yevgeny Savchenko, Governor of Belgorod, an oral hygiene check at a dentistry center during a campaign visit. Vladimir Putin, 59, was in the region glad-handing as part of his campaign for a third term as president in 2012. Russian PM also visited a municipal district ambulance, a local hospital, a school of arts and a commun…
…Berlin’s unease over the crackdown on NGOs, Moscow’s support of the Syrian government and its criticism of the German-orchestrated financial bailout of Cyprus. Femen was founded in Kiev in 2008 to protest against Ukraine’s booming sex industry. At their first demonstration members appeared clothed carrying banners reading “Ukraine is not a brothel!”. Femen has since gone from str…
Vladimir Putin is back to Kremlin where he is inaugurated as president of Russia in a ceremony in the capital, Moscow. Vladimir Putin is returning to the presidency after an absence of four years in which he served as prime minister. The outgoing President, Dmitry Medvedev, was widely seen as an ally of Vladimir Putin. He won a third term as president in controversial elections in March. On Sunda…
…may draw new supporters to the anti-Putin cause. In a separate development in Warsaw, thousands of Russian fans are due to mark their national holiday with a march through the city ahead of their Euro 2012 match against co-host Poland. It will be heavily policed in what the authorities say is the “greatest ever” security challenge. …
…ns aimed at pressuring Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime, which is fighting an increasingly vigorous armed opposition. Activists now put the death toll from the uprising that began in March 2011 at between 23,000 and 26,000. Russia has said its policy is not aimed at supporting Bashar al-Assad and Vladimir Putin in the interview gave strong indication that Moscow may have written off th…
Vladimir Putin’s spokesman has admitted that Russia’s president is suffering from an injury, but denied media reports that it is affecting his work. Dmitry Peskov said the president had “pulled a muscle”, adding that it was sports-related. He dismissed claims that the injury had got worse after Vladimir Putin’s flight last month with Siberian cranes. Vladimir Putin,…
…biggest energy producer, and China, the largest consumer of energy. On the eve of the visit, Vladimir Putin told China’s state media that he wanted to increase bilateral trade to $100 billion in 2015 and $200 billion by 2020. He said the target could be achieved “ahead of schedule”. On Wednesday, Vladimir Putin will meet Vice-Premier Li Keqiang, who is tipped to be the next premi…
to kiss the leader’s hand before Vladimir Putin sharply withdrew his hand away and made a fist by the side of his head. Vladimir Putin, who has ruled Russia as president or prime minister since 2000 and has projected a tough guy image, has enjoyed the support of Russian Orthodox Church leader Patriarch Kirill who gave him his approval during the head of state’s presidential election c…
New protests are taking place in Moscow and other Russian cities following Vladimir Putin’s victory in last weekend’s presidential election. Almost 20,000 people lined one of central Moscow’s main avenues. However, this was much lower than the turnouts that followed December’s parliamentary election, which the opposition said was rigged. Similar allegations have surrounded…
…Russian police response to anti-Putin rallies in Moscow. A State Department spokesman said the US was “disturbed” by the “mistreatment” of peaceful protesters. Organizers said 20,000 people took part in a protest on Sunday against Vladimir Putin’s inauguration, though police put the figure at 8,000. President Vladimir Putin has told President Barack Obama that he wi…
Exiled Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky has been found dead at his home outside London on March 23. Boris Berezovsky, who died at the age of 67, was a Russian dissident and a former Kremlin power broker whose fortunes went into dramatic decline as Vladimir Putin established himself as the country’s president. He played a role in Vladimir Putin’s rise in the late 1990s, but went into oppositi…
…hooliganism motivated by religious hatred” for dancing and singing in Christ the Saviour Cathedral. He also chided the police for taking no action when one of the three – Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22 – was involved in a sexually explicit protest four years ago in a biological museum. “They had a group sex session in a public place. They then uploaded it onto the Internet. The authorities…
…ng that repression is returning, he says. Opposition “Freedom March” rallies also took place in other Russian cities on Saturday, Interfax news agency reported. In St Petersburg, more than 25 people were arrested in a protest that had been allowed by city officials, Interfax said. Other large rallies were reported in Tomsk and Yekaterinburg. Earlier this week, Vladimir Putin used his a…
…-Assad and seek his removal. On Sunday, Bashar al-Assad denied his forces had any role in the Houla massacre. In a televised address, President Bashar al-Assad told parliament the killing of more than 108 people in their homes, including 49 children, was an “ugly crime” that even “monsters” would not carry out. Witnesses have blamed pro-government militiamen for the massacr…
…he killing and also by Ruslan Madayev, the suspect who died in the Odessa explosion. The other suspect was named by Channel One as Adam Osmayev, said to have been on an international wanted list since 2007. The plotters were planning to plant mines on Kutuzovsky Avenue in Moscow, used by Vladimir Putin on a daily basis, the report said. The Russian prime minister’s press secretary, Dmitry Pe…
President Vladimir Putin has signed into law a ban on Americans adopting Russian orphans. The law is a reaction to the US Magnitsky Act, which blacklists Russian officials accused of rights abuses. The death of anti-corruption lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in 2009 became a symbol of the fight against corruption in Russia, and soured relations between Russia and the US. The US state department says it &…
…oly Serdyukov after his ministry was caught up in a corruption scandal. Anatoly Serdyukov was a furniture store executive and head of the Russian tax service before being appointed defense minister in 2007. In the six years that Anatoly Serdyukov had been minister he had tried to reform Russia’s outdated armed forces by cutting costs and personnel and by boosting efficiency. But he had made…
Russian President Vladimir Putin sets off on his latest bid to put right the wrongs of nature by teaching birds to fly. Hang-gliding over Arctic Siberia this week, Vladimir Putin guided white cranes which seem to have lost the instinct to migrate south to a warmer climate for the winter. The aim was to set the endangered birds on course for Asia and as with his previous action-man ventures –…
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