Putin to visit China in fall, gets invite to G20 summit in India
Russian news agencies quoted Putin’s foreign policy adviser, Yuri Ushakov, as saying the trip will be timed to coincide with a “One Belt, One Road” forum in China.
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Black Sea grain deal extension vital to avoid ‘further shocks,’ Canada says
A precarious deal brokered last summer to help feed the world hangs in the balance over whether Russian President Vladimir Putin, the UN and the E.U. can break a deadlock.
Xi says Russia and China should ‘lead global governance reform’
DefenceTalkChina and Russia need to “lead the correct direction of global governance reform”, according to Chinese President Xi Jinping, who hailed the two countries’ partnership at a meeting with a top Russian politician in Beijing o…
Why Putin’s allies believe he is ‘divorced from reality’: Russian journalist
The day Wagner Group leader Yevgeny V. Prigozhin attempted to rebel against the Kremlin, Russian President Vladimir Putin was enjoying himself at one of the country’s “most popular” events, the Scarlet Sails festival, according to Russian journalist M…
In Prigozhin’s shadow, the Wagner Group leader who stays out of the spotlight
Yevgeniy Prigozhin is the financier and public face of the Wagner Group, but the operational leader is Dmitry Utkin.
Putin confirms Wagner group was ‘funded by Russian state’
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday confirmed that the Wagner mercenary group was entirely funded by the state, from the budget of Russia’s Ministry of Defense. According to Putin, the Russian government had paid out last year just over 8…
Wagner Group in Belarus spells trouble, Eastern Europe’s NATO allies warn
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg is trying to allay fears by some Eastern European members over exiled members of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group residing in Belarus.
‘This is not a victory’ for Russia: ex-CIA senior official says Putin looks ‘weak’ after rebellion
Vladimir Putin looks much weaker during the “pause” in the current rebellion, according to Marc Polymeropoulos, a former CIA Senior Intelligence Service official.Polymeropoulos, who is also a nonresident senior fellow in the Forward Defense practice o…
Putin in ‘a very difficult position’ even after rebellion reverses course: Russia expert
Vladimir Putin is still in “a very difficult position” after the Wagner group announced it would stand down on its march towards Moscow, according to a New Yorker staff writer who also wrote a biography of the Russian leader.Masha Gessen began by de…
Leader of rebellion against Putin vows to back off: report
Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, the leader of the paramilitary group that has been at the root of enormous chaos in Russia over the last two days, has reportedly announced that his troops marching toward Moscow would turn around.The news comes from the New York…