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Russian Defense Minister meets with Assad in Syria at Putin’s request
Russian Su-35Sfighter jets escorted Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu’s aircraft into Syrian airspace to provide security, stated the Russian Defense Ministry, as quoted by RBC news agency. Shoygu made a working visit to Syria at the request of Russian President Vladimir Putin. In Damascus, the minister was met by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
During the talks, they discussed ensuring the ceasefire in the Idlib de-escalation zone and military-technical cooperation between Russia and …
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Putin's nephew wants to create new party to run in the Russian parliamentary elections
Vladimir Putin's nephew, businessman and former FSB employee Roman Putin plans to create his own party to participate in the elections to the Russian Peraliement, the State Duma, reports the Russian newspaper Kommersant, citing its sources.
It is expected that the party will be founded on the basis of the "People of action" movement, which is headed by Roman Putin.
According to Putin, the movement was founded in February and has already gathered 16,000 supporters in 45 regions. The movement's …
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‘Putin’s chef’ intends to sue US authorities for $50 billion
Concord, which is owned by Evgeny Prigozhin, a close associate of Vladimir Putin, is preparing a lawsuit against the U.S. authorities, accusing them of illegal prosecution and sanctions. According to Prigozhin’s statement, which was published by Concord’s press service, the amount of the lawsuit is $50 billion
The businessman's statement comes after the U.S. Department of Justice asked the court to drop charges against Russian companies Concord Management and Consulting and Concord Catering, …
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Putin: We don’t care about Western sanctions
Russia lost about $50 billion as a result of Western sanctions, but was able to earn it back, said Russian President Vladimir Putin in an interview with TASS
"I don't care about them, these sanctions. So, according to various estimates, we lost about 50 billion, but we earned the same amount back," he said.
According to Putin, these are not small losses, but sanctions have forced the country to "turn on its brains."
"We spent quite a lot of money on the so-called import substitution and …
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Putin’s sniper found dead in Moscow
A Federal Protective Service (FSO) sniper from the presidential guard was found dead in Moscow. A 24-year-old man suffered a gunshot wound to the head and died at the scene, reports the telegram channel Baza.
The body of the deceased FSO serviceman was discovered by an acquaintance, who came to check on him because the person had not been in touch for several days. The door of the apartment was locked from inside, so the man had to climb through the kitchen window. There, on the kitchen floor, …
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In a hurry to the throne: Putin approves amendments to Russian Constituion ahead of time
Today, on March 14, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on amendments to the Russian Constitution. Previously, it was assumed that the package of amendments to the Russian Constitution would be approved by the head of the Kremlin almost a week later. The decree "On improvements to certain aspects in regulations of organization and functioning of public power" has been published on the Kremlin’s website.
During the second reading of the bill on amendments to the Russian …
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Kremlin: Putin does not like personality cult created around him
"Vladimir Putin's cult of personality is something that Vladimir Putin strongly disagrees with," Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for the Russian president, said.
According to RIA Novosti, Peskov recalled that his boss "has long and clearly" indicated his attitude to any manifestations of this kind of cult”. "He definitely doesn't like it," Peskov stated.
During the second reading of the bill on amendments to the Russian Constitution in the State Duma, MP Valentina Tereshkova proposed an amendment …
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U.S. urges EU to impose sanctions on ‘Putin’s Chef’
Senate senior minority leader Chuck Schumer and four other senators have asked the European Union to impose sanctions on Russian businessman Evgeny Prigozhin because his of involvement in the meddling in the upcoming presidential election, the Foreign Relations Committee said in a statement.
The senators accused the businessman and his companies of meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
"As the presidential election in the United States draws closer, our concerns about foreign …
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Lawyer of families of MH17 crash victims: Permission to send Buk missile system from Russia to Ukraine was given by Putin
The Buk surface-to-air missile system from which the Malaysian Boeing 777 flight MH17 was shot down could not have been removed from Russia without the permission of Russian President Vladimir Putin, said the lawyer of relatives of the MH17 crash victims, Jerry Skinner, in a comment to Deutsche Welle.
In his opinion, during the court hearings in the Netherlands, the public will hear the names of advisers close to Putin, and probably, the Russian president himself will be mentioned.
"I don't …
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Erdogan offers Putin to jointly develop Syrian oil deposits
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has proposed to Russian leader Vladimir Putin to boost Syria’s economy by jointly developing Syrian oil deposits. Erdogan himself told journalists about his proposal to Putin during the flight from Belgium to Turkey. An excerpt of the interview was published by NTV channel.
"With the oil we get from here, we will make a contracting company, and if you support it financially, let us bring the destroyed Syria back on its feet," Erdogan told Putin.
The Turkish …