In this year’s “state of the union” speech, Putin focused mainly on curing Russia’s largely self-inflicted wounds, making admissions he normally doesn’t make for the Western press
Vyacheslav Volodin, speaker of the Russian parliament, will travel to Cuba for Fidel Castro’s funeral in place of President Vladimir Putin.
Putin and Obama traded ‘cold stares’ as they met on the margins of the APEC meeting in Lima. Putin said strikes were ‘permissible’ on NATO sites that ‘threaten Russia’.
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Aleksei Ulyukayev, the Russian Minister for Economic Development, was arrested late last night, charged with receiving a $2 million bribe for endorsing the sale of a controlling interest in the oil company Bashneft to Rosneft, Russia’s largest oil company.
Pro-Russian leaders have been elected in Bulgarian and Moldova, although the Kremlin denies it. Michael McFaul, former US ambassador to Moscow has been denied entry to Russia.
President Vladimir Putin is “hopeful” about the presidency of Donald Trump bringing improved relations; a Moscow court ruled to block the professional networking site LinkedIn for refusing to place servers with Russian customer data on Russian soil.
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Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov and missile frigate Admiral Grigorevich arrive off the coast of Syria as strikes against Aleppo are predicted.
