RUSSIA

Trump, Putin discuss Russian wildfires: White House

1:55 pm August 1, 2019

Washington: US President Donald Trump spoke on Wednesday with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin about wildfires in Siberia and trade, the White House said. Trump “expressed concern over the vast wildfires afflicting Siberia. The leaders also discussed trade between the two countries,” according to a brief statement from Trump’s press office. Earlier, the Russian state-run news […]

US poised to formally abandon INF missile treaty

1:54 pm August 1, 2019

Washington: The United States will officially withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty on Friday, clearing the way for a new arms race with Russia — and throwing China into the mix. The treaty — concluded by then US president Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987 — limited the Cold War […]

Navalny daughter accepts human rights award on his behalf

Putin opponent Navalny ‘poisoned’: lawyer

10:23 pm July 29, 2019

Moscow: Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was “poisoned” by an unidentified toxic substance but doctors have sent him back to jail despite his condition, his lawyer and personal physician said Monday. President Vladimir Putin’s top opponent was rushed to hospital on Sunday a day after almost 1,400 people were arrested at an unauthorised protest, in […]

Biden to meet Putin in Geneva on June 16: White House

Putin opponent Navalny exposed to ‘toxic agent’?

1:54 pm July 29, 2019

Moscow: Russia’s jailed opposition politician Alexei Navalny might have been exposed to an unidentified “toxic agent,” his personal doctor said on Monday, while health officials insisted his condition was satisfactory. “Some toxic agent may be the reason for Alexei Navalny’s ‘illness’,” his physician Anastasia Vasilyeva said in a post on Facebook, adding that officials at […]

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