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The Kremlin’s hopes of greater Chinese assistance took several blows this week due to unfavorable economic trends, including another potential large-scale COVID outbreak within mainland China. Chinese authorities reported over 300 confirmed COVID cases across multiple provinces, raising the probability of another round of mass mobility restrictions, which could lower…

By Guardian Nigeria 08 July 2022   |   3:40 pm Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday warned of possible "catastrophic consequences" of Western sanctions on the global energy market. "Sanctions restrictions on Russia will bring far bigger losses for the countries that impose them," Putin told a televised government…

A Moscow court Friday sentenced a city councillor to seven years in prison for denouncing President Vladimir Putin’s military intervention in Ukraine. Alexei Gorinov, 60, is the first elected member of the opposition to be sentenced to jail for criticising Moscow’s military campaign in Ukraine. He was found guilty of…

Vladimir Putin on Thursday accused the West of decades of aggression towards Moscow and warned that if it wanted to attempt to beat Russia on the battlefield it was welcome to try, but this would bring tragedy for Ukraine. is remarks came as Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov prepared for…

PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN today challenged the West to try and defeat Russia “on the battlefield” and said Moscow’s intervention in Ukraine marked a shift to a “multi-polar world.” Delivering one of his strongest speeches since he sent troops to Ukraine on 24 February, Putin also raged against “totalitarian liberalism” that…

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka’s president on Wednesday said he urged Russian leader Vladimir Putin to help his cash-strapped island nation import fuel as it faces its worst economic crisis in seven decades. Short of foreign exchange because of economic mismanagement and the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, Sri…

WorldGovt suspending fuel sales for two weeks to cope with the shortageSri Lankan President, on Wednesday, reached out to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, seeking urgent credit for fuel imports for the crisis-hit island nation, even as Colombo negotiates a support package with the Washington-headquartered International Monetary Fund.       “Had a…

A day after Russian President Vladimir Putin declared victory in seizing an eastern Ukraine province essential to his wartime aims, a city in the path of Moscow’s offensive came under sustained bombardment, its mayor said Tuesday. Mayor Vadim Lyakh said in a Facebook that “massive shelling” pummeled Sloviansk, which had…

Smoke rises from the territory of an automotive centre following recent shelling in Donetsk, Ukraine, on July 5.KAZBEK BASAYEV/Reuters Russian forces struck targets across Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region on Tuesday, a day after President Vladimir Putin declared victory in the neighbouring province of Luhansk after months of gruelling attritional warfare…

Russian President Vladimir Putin heralded a 'new world order' of greater Russian dominance in a speech to business leaders. Video / AP / Getty The son of dead Russian laser scientist Dr Dmitry Kolker, 54, today accused Vladimir Putin's FSB security service of killing his father. The world-class expert was…