Trump-Putin meet: The highly anticipated summit between the two leaders yielded no agreement to resolve or pause Moscow's war in Ukraine, despite both leaders describing the talks in Alaska as productive
Russia has long sought to establish what it calls digital sovereignty by promoting home-grown services
A sweeping US sanctions bill could be the West's last chance to choke off the Kremlin's war economy, they said.
Trump has so far sought to use the congressional sanctions bill to encourage Putin to come to the negotiating table
Putin, hours before heading to an Orthodox Easter service late on Saturday, ordered his forces to "stop all military activity" along the front line in the three-year-old war until midnight Moscow time (2100 GMT) on Sunday.
The attack comes less than 24 hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin met with US envoy Steve Witkoff to discuss details of the American proposal for a 30-day ceasefire in the war with Ukraine
Putin sent Russia's army into Ukraine in 2022. He has repeatedly said he is ready to discuss an end to the war that reflects the reality on the ground, where advancing Russian forces now control nearly a fifth of Ukrainian territory.
The Kremlin said the “constructive and business-like” conversation touched upon “acute issues of practical cooperation in trade and economic, education and other spheres,” adding that the leaders agreed to continue contacts to develop a “broad agenda for the development of bilateral cooperation.”
”There are no grounds for negotiations yet,” the Kremlin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, told the Izvestia newspaper, reiterating Moscow’s long-standing position on the talks.
Trump was wounded in an assassination attempt in Pennsylvania in July. In a separate incident in September, a man was charged with attempted assassination after allegedly positioning himself with a rifle at one of Trump’s Florida golf courses.
U.S. President-elect Trump, who has vowed to swiftly end the conflict, is returning to the White House at a time of Russian ascendancy. Moscow controls a chunk of Ukraine about the size of the American state of Virginia and is advancing at the fastest pace since the early days of the 2022 invasion.
Meloni highlighted that nations, including India and China, have significant roles to play in addressing the Ukrainian conflict.
Russia has been in talks for years about building the pipeline to carry 50 billion cubic metres (bcm) of natural gas a year from its Yamal region to China via Mongolia
Relations between the two countries have grown closer, and Putin made the offer in a message to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un delivered on Saturday via the Russian embassy in Pyongyang.
What is Russia's nuclear doctrine? Formally known as the “Basic Principles of State Policy on Nuclear Deterrence,” it was signed by Putin in 2020 and outlines when Russia could dip into its atomic arsenal, the world's largest.
The Ministry of External Affairs emphasised on India's long-term relationship with Russia and asserted that in a multipolar world, each nation has the right to make its own diplomatic choices
"I am grateful to you for the attention you pay to the most pressing issues, particularly trying to find ways to resolve the Ukraine crisis, primarily through peaceful means," Putin was quoted as saying by the official TASS news agency
Modi, while addressing the Indian diaspora, on Tuesday described Russia as India's 'all-weather friend' and hailed President Vladimir Putin's leadership in strengthening the bilateral relationship over the past two decades
Prime Minister Modi will be in Moscow on July 8-9, 2024, at the invitation of the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin to hold the 22nd India-Russia Annual Summit, according to an official statement by the Ministry of External Affairs
"The comprehensive partnership agreement signed today provides, among other things, for mutual assistance in the event of aggression against one of the parties to this agreement," Putin was quoted as saying by state news agency TASS
The Prime Minister was referring to his meeting with Putin in September 2022 that took place on the sidelines of the annual summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation in Samarkand
Yulia Navalnaya asked Russians opposed to President Vladimir Putin to get in line at voting stations on March 17, the last and main day of voting.
In the video released Monday, Yulia Navalnaya accused Putin of killing her husband in the remote Artic prison and alleged that officials' refusal to hand over his body to his mother was part of a cover-up.
Navalny, the most prominent foe of Russian President Vladimir Putin, is serving a 19-year sentence on charges of extremism. He had been imprisoned in the Vladimir region of central Russia, about 230 kilometers (140 miles) east of Moscow, but his lawyers said they had not been able to reach him since December 6.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has rejected the idea of a ceasefire now that would leave Russia in control of nearly a fifth of his country, and give its forces time to regroup after 17 grinding months of war.