New York, Jan 4 (ANI): Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov is hosting Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at his 30 million dollars French Alps chalet, as a token of thanks for clearing his name from a prostitution scandal.
The soon-to-be New Jersey Nets owner invited Putin to stay at his chalet [...]
London, Jan 2 (ANI): Russians were in for a treat of a surprise cartoon duet on TV, when caricatures of President Dmitri Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin reviewed the year after the latter’s official New Year’s Eve address.
The two-and-a-half-minute animation, showed the animated versions of the ruling duo [...]
London, Dec 30 (ANI): Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi has secured a 10percent discount on a new Russian-built 4×4 vehicle.
Russian Prime Vladimir Putin broke the news of the UaZ being handed to Berlusconi on a lower price,
Putin was in Vladivostok, test-driving the vehicle made [...]
Moscow, Dec 29 (DPA) Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin Tuesday said Russia would continue to develop offensive missiles to defend against a potential US attack despite ongoing nuclear arms reductions talks.
Speaking in Vladivostok, Russia’s largest port on the Pacific Ocean, Putin said the country would develop offensive missiles ‘to maintain the balance of power,’ Interfax [...]
Vladivostok, Dec 28 (RIA Novosti) Russia will invest $5 billion in a shipbuilding programme in the country’s Far East, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Monday.
Earlier in the day, the Russian premier attended the ceremony of launching the first stage of the East Siberia-Pacific Ocean oil pipeline project, which is designed to pump up to [...]
Kozmino (Russia), Dec 28 (RIA Novosti) Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who officially launched the East Siberia-Pacific Ocean (ESPO) oil pipeline Monday, said it was a project of strategic importance for Russia.
During his visit to the region, the Russian premier took part in the official ceremony of pumping the first batch of Siberian oil into [...]
Washington, Dec 16 (DPA) US news magazine Time has picked Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the US Federal Reserve Bank, as its 2009 Person of the Year.
The annual honour goes to a person, or group of persons, picked by the influential magazine as a major mover or shaker of the year coming to a close. [...]
New York, Dec 16 (ANI): Vladimir Putin’s alleged girlfriend Alina Kabaeva has given birth to a baby boy, whom sources claim to be the Russian Prime Minister’s first son.
Kabaeva, the gorgeous, 26-year-old rhythmic gymnastics champion, recently gave birth to a boy in Moscow and named the baby Dimitry.
Kabaeva has been identified as Putin’s girlfriend ever [...]
New Delhi, Dec.14 (ANI): With the reprocessing agreement with United States still in the works and practical implementation of Indo-US nuclear trade looking far fetched, Russia is looking forward to securing an early bird advantage.
Russia today said that working with it in the field [...]
New Delhi, Dec 14 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s recent summit with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Moscow has injected ‘a new freshness’ into India-Russia relations which are now ‘back on a very solid track,’ the Russian envoy said here Monday.
A new freshness has been infused into the India-Russia relationship, Russian Ambassador Alexander Kadakin told [...]
Moscow, Dec 6 (IANS) The brand of terrorism that has its roots in Pakistan ‘will figure prominently’ during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s talks with Russian leaders in Moscow, official sources said.
Manmohan Singh, who arrived in the Russian capital Sunday on a three-day trip, will ask Russia to ‘prevail upon Pakistan and ask Islamabad to honour [...]
Washington, Dec.6 (ANI): With the pressure from the opposition mounting and relentless attacks being carried out by a hostile media, chances are that Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari may try to replicate Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and opt to step down, a report in the Foreign Policy [...]
Moscow, Dec.4 (ANI): Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, who sent millions to their deaths during his nearly three decade long reign of terror, is closer to being rehabilitated, thanks to incumbent Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
Praising Stalin’s achievements openly, Putin said he must be given credit for making the Soviet Union an industrial superpower, and for defeating [...]
London, Nov 26 (ANI): Endangered Siberian tigress that was shot by a tranquiliser dart and fitted with a satellite-tracking collar by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, has gone missing.
Putin’s official website was tracking the tigress movements to highlight threats to the survival of the animal, also called the Amur tiger.
The female tiger’s last location [...]
Moscow, Nov 13 (RIA Novosti) A pencil that Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin supposedly used at a recent news conference has gone on sale on the Internet auction site eBay, a media report said Thursday.
Bids for the pencil – advertised under the heading ‘Vladimir Putin’s pencil, anyone?’ – have so far reached $1,025, the newsru.com [...]
Moscow, Nov 2 (IANS) Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin warned his Swedish counterpart Fredrik Reinfeldt, rotating president of the European Union (EU), Sunday that that there may be problems in transit of Russian gas to Europe.
In a telephone conversation, Putin urged EU attention to possible problems in Ukraine’s payment for Russian gas, news agencies quoted [...]
London, Oct 24 (ANI): Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin came together yesterday for a macho outing.
On Friday, Berlusconi took a flight on an amphibious Russian aircraft used to fight forest fires, accompanied to the plane by Putin, reports The Telegraph.
Both clad in matching orange life-jackets, state television showed Berlusconi [...]
Rome (Italy), Oct. 22 (ANI): Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi apparently snubbed Jordan King Abdullah in favour of a birthday party with Russian Prime Minister and old friend Vladimir Putin.
Opposition politicians in Rome demanded to know why Berlusconi had cancelled a meeting with King Abdullah, choosing instead to fly to St Petersburg to discuss [...]
Moscow, Oct.20 (ANI): Former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev has delivered a damning indictment of the state of Russia’s political system, describing the recent elections as a stage-managed “mockery” of voters.
In his most outspoken comments since he resigned in 1991, Gorbachev fiercely criticised the ruling United Russia party led by Vladimir Putin, the prime minister, [...]
Beijing, Oct 14 (DPA) The premiers of China, Russia and four Central Asian nations Wednesday held a summit under the security-focussed Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, host nation China said.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and their counterparts from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan were scheduled to attend the summit at Beijing’s Great [...]
Beijing, Oct 13 (RIA Novosti) Contracts worth $3.5 billion have been signed at a Russian-Chinese business forum here, Russia’s deputy prime minister said Tuesday.
The bilateral business forum coincided with a visit to China by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
Russian deputy premier Alexander Zhukov said the largest contracts were signed between Russia’s national development bank, Vnesheconombank [...]
New Delhi, Oct 9 (IANS) The roadblocks in finalising the price tag for the refurbishment of the aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov are likely to be discussed during Defence Minister A.K. Antony’s three-day visit to Russia next week.
Antony, who leaves for Russia Oct 13, will be attending the ninth meeting of the India-Russia Inter Governmental Commission [...]
Moscow, Oct 7 (DPA) Artists, journalists and human rights activists were among 800 people to gather in Moscow to commemorate the third anniversary of the murder of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya Wednesday, Russian media reported.
Russian Prime Minister and former president Vladimir Putin was the object of ire among the demonstrators, calling for a ‘Russia without [...]
London, October 4 (ANI): America’s first female Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has revealed that her “costume jewellery” worked as an unexpected diplomatic tool for her.
Known as a tough bargainer who would brook no nonsense as she travelled the world, Madeleine faced down despots like Saddam Hussein and Kim Jong-il.
She began using brooches in [...]
London, Oct. 4 (ANI): Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has handed over a list and evidence to Moscow, showing that some Russian scientists have been helping Iran to develop a nuclear bomb.
Netanyahu’s revelation came during his secret Moscow visit where he held urgent talks with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and President Dmitry Medvedev.
“We have [...]
Washington, Oct.2 (ANI): Democrats and Republicans have both criticized President Barack Obama over his high-risk decision to fly to Copenhagen to support the Olympic bid of his home town, Chicago.
According to The Telegraph, Obama left Washington last night amid the private misgivings of fellow Democrats that [...]
Moscow, Sep 20 (DPA) Russian President Dmitry Medvedev moved to quash speculation of a rift with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin Sunday, telling CNN the pair worked very well together.
Putin, who served the full permitted two terms as president before stepping down last year to become prime minister, has recently stoked speculation he may return to [...]
Moscow, Sep 16 (RIA Novosti) Russia has overcome the worst phase of the current global economic crisis and is gradually beginning to recover, deputy prime minister Igor Shuvalov told the lower house of parliament Wednesday.
The State Duma invited Igor Shuvalov and Sergei Ignatyev, the head of the Central Bank, to deliver a report on the [...]
London, Sep 12 (ANI): Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is strongly considering to become President again and swap places with present incumbent Dimitri Medvedev, which will allow the former KGB spy to remain in power till 2024.
Putin insisted that swapping places with Medvedev was no more sinister than the Labour leadership agreement in which [...]
London, Sep 5 (ANI): Former President of USSR Mikhail Gorbachev has criticized Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin for failing to fight corruption and for rolling back democracy in the country.
Gorbachev attacked Putin in an exclusive interview to The Times over his failure to convict the killers of prominent Kremlin critics such as the [...]
