Russian President Vladimir Putin won the presidential elections, receiving 87.17% of the votes based on the result of processing 70% of the electoral protocols, Russia-based TASS reported, citing data from the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation. The Communist Party of the Russian Federation candidate Nikolai Kharitonov secured the second spot with 4.1% of the votes while New People …
The 71-year-old president is all but certain to win another term in a vote that begins on March 15. Putin’s supporters also call him a “gatherer of Russian lands”, an honourable sobriquet for Russian princes and czars, for waging the 2008 war on ex-Soviet Georgia, recognising two breakaway Georgian statelets, annexing Crimea in 2014 and parts of four more Ukrainian …
“We have considered the possibility of creating an open dating platform, taking inspiration from countries like Great Britain and Japan, despite our differences with them,” said Russia’s liberal democratic party leader Leonid Slutsky Russia now has more single parents and widows than two-parent families, prompting calls for initiatives to bring them together, according to Leonid Slutsky, the leader of Russia’s …
President Vladimir Putin has cancelled his traditional televised year-end news conference this month — 10 months into Russia's stuttering invasion of Ukraine. Key points: The Kremlin is expected to announce a date for Mr Putin's annual speech to both houses of Russia's parliament European Union foreign ministers are working up further sanctions against 200 Russians The Norwegian Refugee Council expects …
Viktor Bout was freed last week from a 25-year US prison sentence in swap for basketball star Brittney Griner. Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, who was freed last week from US custody in a prisoner swap for American basketball star Brittney Griner, has joined the ultranationalist Liberal Democratic Party, according to the party’s leader, a Kremlin loyalist. On Telegram on …
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