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Putin's close aide Dugin could have been the target of explosion: Report

A car caught fire in Moscow. Darya Dugina, 29, had been driving for about 10 minutes after leaving the "Tradition" music and literature festival when her car exploded.

Putin senses 'catastrophe' at Ukraine nuke plant during talk with Macron

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron held a telephonic conversation to discuss the situation in Ukraine, the Kremlin said in a statement

Violation of int'l law: Macron assails Putin's 'brutal attack' on Ukraine

Hours after talking with Vladimir Putin, French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday accused the Russian leader of launching a brutal attack on Ukraine in an imperialist, revanchist violation of international law. Macron, who tried tirelessly but unsuccessfully to prevent the invasion and long vaunted the importance of dialogue with Putin, has grown increasingly critical of the Russian president as the war bears on. He warned French citizens that the resulting energy and economic crisis confronting Europe isn't over, calling it the price of our freedom and our values. Since Vladimir Putin launched his brutal attack on Ukraine, war has returned to European soil, a few hours away from us," Macron said in a speech commemorating the 78th anniversary of the Allied landing in Nazi-occupied southern France during World War II. Macron said Putin is seeking to impose his imperialist will on Europe, conjuring phantoms of the spirit of revenge in a flagrant violation of the integrity of ...

Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin plan to attend G-20 summit in Indonesia

The presence of Xi and Putin would set up a showdown with US President Joe Biden and other democratic leaders

Putin, Xi Jinping to attend G20 Summit in Bali, says Indonesian President

Russian President Vladimir Putin as well as his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, will visit the upcoming G20 Summit in Bali, Indonesian President Joko Widodo said

Amid sanctions from the West, INSTC raises Russian trade volume with India

INSTC is a 7,200 km transportation network ratified by 13 countries, viz, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Armenia, India, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Oman, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkey, and Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin accuses US of fanning Asia tension

Putin also cited the AUKUS security pact between Australia, Britain and the United States as evidence of Western attempts to build a NATO-style bloc in the Asia-Pacific region

Vladimir Putin blasts US 'hegemony,' predicts end to 'unipolar' world

Putin reaffirmed his long-held claim that he sent troops into Ukraine in response to Washington turning the country into an anti-Russia bulwark.

Russian President Putin reaffirms goal of capturing Ukraine's Donbas region

Russian President Vladimir Putin has reaffirmed the goal of completely capturing the Ukraine's separatist Donbas region, nearly six months after launching his war against Kiev.

Full-scale nuclear war could kill 5 billion people, shows new study

Five billion people would die in a modern nuclear war with the impact of a global famine, likely to far exceed the casualties caused by lethal blasts, a new study showed

Russia: Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny says he's in solitary confinement

Navalny, President Vladimir Putin's fiercest foe, was arrested in January 2021 upon returning from Germany, where he had been recuperating from nerve-agent poisoning he blamed on the Kremlin.

Bill Gates, Joe Biden, ISS & others greet India on 76th Independence Day

Apart from Bill Gates, India-American astronaut Raja Chari also extended heartfelt greetings on the occasion of Independence day from the International Space Station

Ukraine residents flee town near nuclear site; grain cargo reaches Syria

There were reports that conditions were unraveling in and near the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant

China exports to Russia boom in return to near pre-war highs: Report

Russia bought $6.7 billion of goods in July from China, an increase of more than a third from the previous month and up by more than an annual 20 per cent

Where did all Russian oligarchs' superyachts with sanctioned assets go?

Boats linked to Russian oligarchs not known for their discretion have gone "dark" and sailed to friendlier shores like Dubai or Turkey, keen to escape the fate of over $30 billion sanctioned assets

Who is Vladimir Putin?

Short, a former journalist with the BBC, The Economist, and The Times of London, adds to the library of insightful books about the Russian autocrat

Putin bans 'unfriendly' investors from making transactions in Russia

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree banning "unfriendly" investors from making transactions with their shares in strategic Russian enterprises and projects until the end of the year

Vladimir Putin, Tayyip Erdogan meet to further Russia-Turkey ties

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan agreed to strengthen bilateral relations during their talks in Russia's Sochi.

Ukraine war: Russia repeats Putin's new message against a nuclear war

Russian official has twice repeated Putin's new message that a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought, apparently trying to roll back on Putin's warning after the Ukraine invasion.

Russia accuses the US of direct role in Ukraine war, missile attacks

Russia has accused the United States of direct involvement in the Ukraine war, while the first ship carrying Ukrainian grain to world markets since Moscow's invasion is due to be inspected in Turkey