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(Bloomberg) -- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan lobbed a rare direct rebuke at the rulers of Abu Dhabi over their backing of Khalifa Haftar and the Russian mercenaries fighting on his behalf in Libya.Erdogan said that the emirate is bankrolling thousands of Russian fighters who support the forces controlled by…

Former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor criticized Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Sunday for his reported cavalier dismissal of Ukraine in a recent interview. “Do you think Americans care about Ukraine?” an angry Pompeo asked Mary Louise Kelly, host of NPR’s “All Things Considered,” she recounted. Kelly said Pompeo was…

MOSCOW -- Ever since Vladimir Putin announced a dramatic overhaul of Russia's constitution and the removal of his longtime prime minister and cabinet, Russians have been asking themselves a single question: What is Putin up to? Since the Jan. 15 announceme…

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Germany has still not learned “once and for all” its lesson from the Holocaust, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Thursday, as he expressed sorrow for his country’s role in the murder of six million Jews during World War Two. Israeli President Reuven Rivlin speaks at the…

Legislators in Russia's lower house State Duma on Thursday unanimously approved a bill to amend the constitution submitted by President Vladimir Putin - the first of three readings. All 432 legislators present voted in favour of the bill, part of Putin's major reform plan unveiled last week, after debating the proposed amendments…

Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption Olga Lyubimova comes from a family of theatre professionals Russia's new culture minister, Olga Lyubimova, has experience of film and TV production but she apparently once wrote "I'm not bloody cultured at all". Sh…

Russia's President Vladimir Putin approved a new government on Tuesday that he described as a break with the past, bringing in some fresh faces but retaining many senior ministers. The new government included a new economy minister and a new first deputy prime minister, but the finance, foreign, defence, energy…

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during his meeting with ex-Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika and his appointed successor Igor Krasnov in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020. The upper house of Russian parliament is set to approve Krasnov's appointment Wednesday. (Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)…

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Security is tight at the high-profile annual gathering in the Alpine resort Police apprehended two suspected Russian intelligence agents in Davos last August, a Swiss newspaper reports.Tages-Anzeiger says the men, who had diplomatic passports, may have been preparing a spying operation targeting the World…

Did you know Russia had a homegrown luxury car company, called Aurus? Its a brand developed by the Central Scientific Research Automobile and Automotive Engines Institute (the acronym is NAMI in Russian), a descendent of a Soviet-era outfit that developed the… Read More