President Vladimir Putin on Thursday fast-tracked work on constitutional changes that could keep him in power well past the end of his term in 2024, while lawmakers quickly sealed his choice for new prime minister.
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Russian lawmakers are expected to quickly approve the appointment of a new prime minister Thursday, a day after President Vladimir Putin kicked off an unexpected reshuffle of his inner circle that could keep him in power well past the end of his term in 2024.
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Russia’s government resigned in a shock announcement Wednesday after President Vladimir Putin proposed a shake-up of the constitution.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin traveled to Damascus on Tuesday for a meeting with President Bashar Assad, a rare visit that comes amid soaring tensions between Iran and United States after the U.S. assassination of a top Iranian general.
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Russian police on Thursday arrested the country’s leading opposition leader Alexei Navalny and conducted fresh searches at his Moscow-based anti-corruption foundation, a spokeswoman said.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday said the impeachment of Donald Trump was based on “made-up” grounds, and he did not believe it marked the end of the U.S. president.
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The presidents of Ukraine and Russia agreed Monday to revive the peace process on the bloody separatist conflict in eastern Ukraine and exchange all their prisoners, but failed to resolve crucial issues such as a timeline on local elections and control of the borders in the rebel-held region.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky sits down Monday for peace talks in Paris with Russian President Vladimir Putin in their first face-to-face meeting, and the stakes couldn’t be higher.
Read moreGermany expelled two Russian diplomats Wednesday over the brazen killing of a Georgian on the streets of Berlin in August and prosecutors said evidence suggested the slaying was ordered by Moscow or by authorities in Russia’s republic of Chechnya.
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The new version of the old Great Game is being played between a former Soviet intelligence officer and a former TV entertainer. Ukraine is a piece in that game.
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For all the talk about Ukraine in the House impeachment inquiry, there’s a character standing just offstage with a dominant role in this tale of international intrigue: Russia.
Read moreVladimir Bukovsky, a prominent dissident and writer who helped expose the Soviet Union’s abuse of psychiatry to silence its critics, has died in Britain at 76.
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The impeachment inquiry is revealing vivid new details about the high-level unease over President Trump’s actions toward Ukraine, and those of his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, as the swift-moving probe by House Democrats showed no signs of easing Tuesday.
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Russian investigators raided opposition offices across the country on Tuesday, in the latest move against Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny and his allies.
Read moreAgitated and angry, President Donald Trump squared off against House Democrats, packing his increasingly aggressive impeachment defense with name-calling, insults and expletives. Quietly but just as resolutely, lawmakers expanded their inquiry, promising a broad new subpoena for documents and witnesses.
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The Treasury Department on Monday took its first action in response to foreign interference in the 2018 midterm elections by placing the yacht and private planes of a Russian financier on an international sanctions list along with employees of a Russian troll farm he funded to spread false information on social media.
Read morePresident Donald Trump told Russia’s foreign minister and ambassador that he was unconcerned about their country’s interference in the 2016 elections, according to media reports late Friday.
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Pro-Kremlin candidates suffered losses in a Moscow city election, results showed Monday, after a police crackdown on anti-government protests over the summer. But Kremlin-backed candidates dominated in other local and regional elections outside the capital.
Read moreRussians will vote in local elections Sunday, after a hugely controversial campaign in Moscow that degenerated into the biggest police crackdown on protesters in nearly a decade.
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi praised his “close friend” Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday as the pair said they would work to boost military, trade and energy ties.
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