The Dispatch

Germany’s Scholz says on WW2 anniversary Putin will not win his war

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in a televised address to the nation on Sunday May 8, marking the anniversary of the end of World War Two, assured Ukraine…

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I got Putin wrong, German President admits

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, long an advocate of Western rapprochement with Russia, expressed regret for his earlier stance, saying his years of support for the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline…

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Putin discussed Ukraine in call with Germany’s Scholz, Interfax says

March 9 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz by telephone on Wednesday to discuss diplomatic efforts aimed at ending hostilities in Ukraine and the creation of…

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Putin tells Ukraine to stop fighting amid new ceasefire calls

LVIV/KYIV, Ukraine, March 6 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday his campaign in Ukraine was going according to plan and would not end until Kyiv stopped fighting, as efforts…

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Erdogan urges Putin to declare Ukraine ceasefire, make peace

ANKARA, March 6 (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday urged his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to declare a ceasefire in Ukraine, open humanitarian corridors and sign a peace agreement, his…

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Putin says Western sanctions are akin to declaration of war

March 5 (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday that Western sanctions on Russia were akin to a declaration of war and defended Russia's invasion of Ukraine, saying Moscow needed to…

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Macron demands Russia stop offensive, says Putin agrees to halt strikes on civilians

PARIS (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron reiterated the international community's demands to halt Russia's offensive in Ukraine in a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday, Macron's office said. Macron also…

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Anti-war protests held in cities across Russia, 2,000 people arrested

MOSCOW, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Police detained more than 2,000 people at anti-war protests held in 48 cities across Russia on Sunday, a protest monitoring group said, as people defied the authorities…

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Ukraine under full-scale attack; West unites to sanction Russia

KYIV/MARIUPOL, Ukraine, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Ukrainian forces battled Russian invaders on three sides on Thursday after Moscow mounted an assault by land, sea and air in the biggest attack on a…

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Putin gets green light to deploy troops to eastern Ukraine

MOSCOW, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Russian leader Vladimir Putin got the green light from his upper house of parliament on Tuesday to deploy Russian military forces to two separatist-held regions of eastern…

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Putin says Ukraine’s Minsk peace process is finished, blames Kyiv

MOSCOW, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that the Minsk peace agreement on Ukraine no longer existed and that there was nothing left to fulfil, but he…

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Biden and Putin head into Ukraine talks with scant room for compromise

Presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin have a chasm of mutual distrust to bridge when they hold a virtual meeting on Tuesday in the shadow of what the United States believes is a threatened…

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Putin says he hasn’t decided whether to run again for president in 2024

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday he had not yet decided whether to run for a new six-year term in the Kremlin when his current term ends in 2024. Putin has been…

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Europe made mistake in ditching long-term hedging gas deals – Putin

MOSCOW, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Europe had made a mistake by reducing the share of long-term deals in natural gas trade and…

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Russia’s Navalny nominated for EU rights prize

Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was nominated on Monday for the European Parliament's annual human rights prize as European Union lawmakers sought to keep the public spotlight on his pro-democracy network, which…

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Doctor who treated Navalny goes missing, police say

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Siberian doctor who treated Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny after he collapsed on a flight in Russia last year has gone missing, Russian police said on Sunday.…

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Online film about alleged Putin’s ‘palace’ watched over 100 million times

An online video made by jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny alleging that President Vladimir Putin is the ultimate owner of an opulent palace, something Putin has denied, has been viewed more than…

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Putin calls pro-Navalny marches illegal, new protest set for Sunday

Russian President Vladimir Putin condemned weekend protests demanding the release of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny as dangerous and illegal, as the opposition politician's allies said they planned a similar…

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EU should punish Putin for Navalny arrest by cutting money flows – Manfred Weber

BERLIN, Jan 24 (Reuters) - The European Union should punish Russian President Vladimir Putin for the arrest of Kremlin critic Alexej Navalny and thousands of his supporters with targeted financial…

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Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny on his way to Russia

BERLIN/MOSCOW, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny took off on a plane bound for Moscow on Sunday for the first time since he was poisoned last summer, despite Russian authorities'…

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Erdogan tells Putin that Armenia must negotiate over Nagorno-Karabakh

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Saturday that Armenia must be convinced to negotiate in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict with Azerbaijan and called for a peaceful resolution,…

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Putin proposes summit to avoid U.N. ‘confrontation’ over Iran

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday proposed a video summit with the United States, Britain, France, China, Germany and Iran in a bid to avoid "confrontation and escalation" at the…

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Macron confident of progress in key areas with Russia, including Libya

French President Emmanuel Macron is confident of progress in key areas with Russia, notably the crisis in Libya, his office said on Friday after a video conference with Russia leader…

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Putin concerned about arrangements with U.S. amid protests

Russian President Vladimir Putin is concerned about how much he can trust arrangements with U.S. President Donald Trump amid protests in the United States, the Interfax news agency quoted Kremlin…

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Putin in rare Kremlin appearance as Russia plans to relax restrictions

President Vladimir Putin made a rare lockdown appearance in the Kremlin on Monday after officials said improvements in the coronavirus situation may allow Russia to re-open some tourist resorts soon and relax…

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Merkel and Macron seek talks with Putin and Erdogan on Syria

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron told Russia's Vladimir Putin on Thursday they want to meet him and Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan to defuse the crisis in…

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Putin meets Assad in Syria

Putin met Assad in a rare visit in Syria. Mr Putin met with Syrian president Bashar al-Assad in a Russian military base in the capital, where the two leaders discussed…

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Possible Putin-Trump meeting in Chile in November

The Kremlin said on Friday that it would look into the possibility of Russian President Vladimir Putin meeting his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump at an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit…

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Photo story: Putin joins the Night Wolves

Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) rides an Ural motorbike as he and nationalist motorcycle group Night Wolves with their leader Aleksander Zaldostanov (L) arrive before the Babylon's Shadow bike show…

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Putin confirms submarine which suffered fatal fire incident was a nuclear one

Russian President Vladimir Putin has confirmed for the first time that the top-secret submarine that suffered a deadly fire this week was nuclear-powered, but Russia’s defence minister said the nuclear…

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Trump tells Putin not to meddle in the U.S. election

Under pressure to stand firm against Russian election meddling, President Donald Trump insisted he has "very, very good relationship" with President Vladimir Putin on Friday before telling Putin…

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Photo Story: The Day of Memory and Sorrow in Russia

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in the Alexandrovsky Garden near the Kremlin wall in Moscow, Russia, 22 June 2019.…

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Pope and Putin to meet again in July

Pope Francis will receive Russian President Vladimir Putin in an audience in the Vatican on July 4, Vatican spokesperson Alessandro Gisotti told reporters on Thursday. It will be the third…

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Putin and Xi meet to strengthen ties

The Russian and Chinese leaders on Wednesday met once again, at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum after having cozied up repeatedly in recent years. Russian President Vladimir Putin…

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Slideshow: Victory Day Parades in Moscow’s Red Square

Russia is commemorating the 74th anniversary of the Allied victory over Nazi Germany with a major military parade in Moscow's Red Square on May 9. May 9 is one of…

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Moscow ready to improve ties with Washington after Mueller report

The Kremlin said that it was ready to start work on improving ties with the United States after the conclusion of a U.S. investigation into collusion between Donald Trump and…

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Cartoon: God Wanted Trump to Be a President

First published in The Salt Lake Tribune, U.S., February 1, 2019 | By Pat Bagley - Via Politico

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Putin’s trust rating reaches lowest level since 2006

Russia's trust in its President Vladimir Putin has fallen to its lowest level since 2006, falling more than 33 percent, according to a recent poll conducted by the Russian-state Public Opinion Research Center. Confidence…

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From Trump, to the Pope, from Aliyev to Infantino, from Queen Elizabeth II to to Xi Jinping, from Erdogan to Macron, Vladimir Putin sends new year greetings to global leaders

Vladimir Putin told Donald Trump in a New Year's message that Moscow is ready to open talks with Washington on “the most extensive agenda” to secure global security, the Russian…

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