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Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and China’s President Xi Jinping shake hands prior to their talks on the sideline of the 11th edition of the BRICS Summit, in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2019.The BRICS Summit, gathering the leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, will take place…

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin expressed confidence on Friday that tensions over the 33 Russian citizens detained in Minsk last month can be resolved, the Kremlin said.The arrests further strained relations between the two traditional allies, already soured this year by a…

Court jails young Russians for 'plotting to overthrow Putin': Activists are sentenced to up to seven years in a penal colony in case which has sparked protests and accusations police have overstepped their powersRuslan Kostylenkov,  Pyotr Karamzin and Vyacheslav Kryukov were sentencedIn 2018 authorities detained 10 people, accusing them of belonging to…

A look back at Tom Brokaw’s exclusive one-on-one interview with Russian President, Vladimir Putin shortly after he became President of Russia in 2000.Aug. 5, 2020Read More

These cloud-native startups are redefining familiar technology and enabling entirely new products.1 of 11The global pandemic may have put a damper on many sectors of the economy, but it doesn’t seem to have hindered the cloud computing market. According to the latest forecast from Gartner, the public cloud market will…

President Donald Trump was so unprepared for calls with the leaders of Russia and Turkey that he regularly threatened U.S. national security while boasting about his achievements, CNN’s Carl Bernstein reported Monday. Over hundreds of calls cited by anonymous sources, Bernstein reports, Trump almost never read briefing material prepared by…

President Trump on the phone in the Oval Office in 2017 with King Salman of Saudi Arabia. Mark Wilson/Getty Images The Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein on Monday painted a scathing portrait of President Donald Trump's conduct on the world stage, particularly as it relates to his conversations with other leaders.Multiple…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House sought to play down reports it knew Russia had paid the Taliban bounties to kill U.S. troops, promising to brief Democrats on Tuesday after being accused of only sharing information with President Donald Trump’s fellow Republicans. FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks…

MOSCOW, June 27 (Reuters) - Russian police on Saturday detained more than 30 people, most of them women, who were staging separate one-person protests in central Moscow against charges of spreading pornography levelled against a prominent LGBT activist, a monitoring group said. One activist was also detained in St. Petersburg,…

The vote is taking place across seven days because of the pandemic. June 25, 2020, 3:43 PM7 min read Russians have begun voting in a seven day-long referendum on changes to Russia’s constitution that will allow President Vladimir Putin to remain in power until 2036. In January, Putin proposed a…