Vladimir Putin: How Covid-19 and 2020 derailed Russian president’s best-laid plans

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Vladimir Putin: How Covid-19 and 2020 derailed Russian president’s best-laid plans

Observers were quick to read the fine print: The constitutional overhaul would reset the clock on presidential term limits, potentially extending Putin’s hold on power until 2036. A referendum was…

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Vladimir Putin congratulates Joe Biden on victory

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday congratulated President-elect Joseph R. Biden on his White House victory, becoming one of the last major world leaders to formally recognize the looming transfer…

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In Siberian coal country, signs of Russia’s shrinking population are everywhere. It ‘haunts’ Putin.

The pandemic has only accelerated the struggles in regions far from Moscow. Source link

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Putin touts Russian virus vaccines at BRICS summit

MOSCOW (AP) – Russian President Vladimir Putin told BRICS leaders Tuesday that coronavirus vaccines developed in Russia “work effectively and safely” and urged the group of emerging economy nations to…

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Boris Johnson, Vladimir Putin, and other world leaders to Trump’s coronavirus test

Ever since President Donald Trump announced he and the first lady tested positive for the coronavirus early Friday morning, statements ranging from the heartfelt to the grotesque have poured in…

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Trump’s Obama Obsession and Putin Admiration Run Deep in New Tell-All

Early glimpses of Disloyal, the forthcoming memoir by Donald Trump’s former attorney and personal fixer Michael Cohen, feature new allegations of the president’s blunt racism and deep admiration of Vladimir…

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Vladimir Putin says he has police on standby to enter Belarus

Putin listens to a question during his interview with TV channel ‘Russia’ – Pool Sputnik Kremlin Vladimir Putin has said Russian police are on standby to be sent to Belarus…

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Top Putin critic Alexei Navalny poisoned, German doctors confirm

Alexei Navalny, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most outspoken critic, is lying in a medically induced coma in a German hospital from what doctors say was poison — and his family…

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Russia’s coronavirus vaccine claims, Putin and politics

The name might just say it all. In a global first, Russia announced Tuesday that it had developed a ready-for-use coronavirus vaccine. And, in a not-at-all-subtle nod to a decades-old…

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Belarus says it’s arrested Russian mercenaries, as rift grows between strongmen Putin and Lukashenko

Authorities have opened a criminal investigation against the men on suspicion of terrorism, according to Belarus’s Security Council chief, Andrey Ravkov. They face up to 20 years in prison if…

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