The leaders of Russia and Japan have instructed their diplomats to intensify efforts to work out a peace treaty between the two nations. Russia and Japan have yet to sign a formal peace treaty ending hostilities from World War II due to a dispute over four islands that were captured…
French President Francois Hollande and Russian President Vladimir Putin have met in Moscow. The Kremlin had said the talks would focus on trade, as well as international issues. At the start of talks, Hollande stressed the two countries’ role in efforts to resolve international conflicts. For more on this story,…
US president sought pledge against Bashar al-Assad at G20 summit, leaving Syria facing the prospect of increasing violence Patrick Wintour in Los Cabos and Ewen MacAskill in Washington Barack Obama and Russia’s president Vladimir Putin completed a bilateral meeting on the margins of the G20 summit in Los Cabos, Mexico,…
Preliminary results show Vladimir Putin securing 63.18 per cent of votes in Russia’s presidential election, with his closest rival Gennady Zyuganov taking 17.33 per cent. So far, the Central Election Commission has counted some 25 per cent of the ballots. Vladimir Zhirinovsky and Mikhail Prokhorov are waging a real political battle for third place, with [...]
Russian and Ukrainian intelligence services have foiled terrorist plans to assassinate Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Russia’s most-wanted terrorist Doku Umarov is thought to be behind the plot. The internationally-wanted criminals detained in Ukrainian city of Odessa confessed they had intended to assassinate Putin. The attack was supposed to be carried…
Tens of thousands of demonstrators have braved temperatures of -18C in Moscow to march through the city shouting “Russia without Putin” and calling for a rerun of disputed elections. In the latest of a series of mass gatherings since allegations of widespread government vote-rigging at the parliamentary poll on 4…