Vladimir Putin
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Russia’s Putin due to arrive in Tehran on Wednesday
EghtesadOnline: The Russian ambassador to Iran, Levan Dzhagaryan announced that President Vladimir Putin will arrive in Tehran on Wednesday to attend the trilateral meeting of Iran, Russia and…
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Trump to Meet Duterte on Asia Trip, and Maybe Putin Too
EghtesadOnline: President Donald Trump will meet with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and may meet Russian President Vladimir Putin during a 12-day trip to Asia and Hawaii in November, a…
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President Putin to visit Iran in November: Kremlin
EghtesadOnline: Russia's President Vladimir Putin is to pay an official visit to Iran in early November to discuss issues of bilateral interest with his Iranian counterpart and also to take part…
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Putin Is Filling the Middle East Power Vacuum
EghtesadOnline: The Israelis and Turks, the Egyptians and Jordanians -- they’re all beating a path to the Kremlin in the hope that Vladimir Putin, the new master of the Middle East, can secure…
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Zarif, Putin stress full commitment to Iran’s nuclear agreement
EghtesadOnline: Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and Russian President Vladimir Putin have underlined the need for all parties to Iran’s nuclear agreement, known as the Joint Comprehensiv…
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Putin Echoes China in Spurning U.S. on North Korea Sanctions
EghtesadOnline: Russian President Vladimir Putin again rejected U.S. calls for new sanctions against North Korea after its sixth and most powerful nuclear test, echoing China’s resistance to…
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Israel wary of Iran’s growing influence: Netanyahu
EghtesadOnline: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the Tel Aviv regime feels threatened by Iran’s growing influence in Syria and other parts of the Middle East.
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Israel Wants Russia and U.S. to Know It Can Wreck Syria Deal
EghtesadOnline: Israel’s concern that Iran and its Lebanese proxy Hezbollah are working to entrench themselves militarily in Syria will dominate Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s talks Wednesday…
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Russia Names Sanctioned Diplomat Antonov as New Ambassador to U.S.
EghtesadOnline: Russian President Vladimir Putin appointed a hard-line critic of the U.S. who’s blacklisted by the European Union over the Ukraine crisis as his new ambassador to Washington.
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Billionaire Ally of Putin Socialized With Kushner, Ivanka Trump
EghtesadOnline: As federal investigators probe possible Kremlin links with the Donald Trump campaign, one connection that hasn’t gotten much attention is that between Jared Kushner and one of…
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White House Says Trump's Putin Comments Were Sarcastic
EghtesadOnline: President Donald Trump said he was not being serious when he thanked Russian President Vladimir Putin for ordering a drastic reduction in the number of U.S. diplomatic employees…
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Putin bans VPNs to stop Russians accessing prohibited websites
EghtesadOnline: President Vladimir Putin has signed a law that prohibits technology that provides access to websites banned in Russia, the government's website showed on Sunday.
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Putin Says Hopes Retaliation Stops After Ousting 755 U.S. Staff
EghtesadOnline: Vladimir Putin said he hoped there wouldn’t be a need for further retaliation against Washington after his government ordered the U.S. to slash staff at its diplomatic missions…
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For Trump, the honeymoon with Putin may be finally over
EghtesadOnline: Russian President Vladimir Putin tossed President-elect Donald Trump a bouquet in December when he chose not to retaliate for the U.S. expulsion of Russian diplomats and seizure…
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Putin Puts North Korea Ties Before Missile Threat
EghtesadOnline: In retrospect, said Vladimir Bogdanov, it wasn’t the best time to start the first passenger-ship service between Russia and North Korea shortly before Kim Jong Un shocked the…
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Macron to discuss Ukraine with Putin, Merkel and Poroshenko
EghtesadOnline: French President Emmanuel Macron will call the leaders of Russia, Germany and Ukraine on Monday to discuss the conflict in eastern Ukraine, his office said in a statement, as…
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Trump, Putin had previously undisclosed visit at G20 dinner
EghtesadOnline: U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin had a previously undisclosed conversation during a dinner for G20 leaders at a summit earlier this month in Germany,…
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Trump Says He Wants to Work ‘Constructively’ With Russia
EghtesadOnline: Home from the Group of 20 meeting in Germany, President Donald Trump tweeted that he discussed creating a cyber security unit with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin -- drawing…
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Putin says Trump was 'satisfied' with his election meddling denials
EghtesadOnline: President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday he thought his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump had been satisfied with his assertions that Russia had not meddled in the U.S. presidential…
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This Is What Putin Wants From His Syria Deal With Trump
EghtesadOnline: Russia is hoping that the “breakthrough” Syrian ceasefire deal it brokered this week will align the U.S. with President Vladimir Putin’s plans for the war-torn country.
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Lavrov: Putin told Trump that Russia did not meddle in U.S. vote
EghtesadOnline: Russian President Vladimir Putin told U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday that Moscow had not meddled in the U.S. elections, and Trump accepted it, Russian Foreign Minister…
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Trump Raises Election Meddling in First Meeting With Putin
EghtesadOnline: President Donald Trump led off his first meeting with Vladimir Putin by presenting the Russian president with concerns that his government interfered with the 2016 U.S. election,…
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Trump Emerges From Putin Meeting With Cease-Fire and Little Else
EghtesadOnline: In Russia, some call Donald Trump a “marketolog” -- a master at the science of marketing.
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Tillerson Says Trump, Putin to Seek Common Ground Over Syria
EghtesadOnline: President Donald Trump will raise the possibility of U.S. and Russian cooperation on easing the Syria conflict when he meets his Russian counterpart in Hamburg, Secretary of State…
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Pressure builds on Trump at home over pledge for closer Moscow ties
EghtesadOnline: During his presidential campaign, Republican Donald Trump praised Russian President Vladimir Putin as a "strong leader" with whom he would like to reset tense U.S.-Russian relations.
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Trump-Putin Talks Raise Anxiety Ex-Spymaster Will Get Upper Hand
EghtesadOnline: Donald Trump’s encounter with Russian leader Vladimir Putin is raising concerns among veteran American diplomats and analysts about a mismatch between a U.S. president new to…
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Trump, Putin and Erdogan behave like autocratic rulers: Germany's Schulz
EghtesadOnline: The European Union must become stronger in response to a weakening of democracy in the United States, Russia and Turkey, the leader of Germany's centre-left Social Democrats said…
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Putin: more U.S. sanctions would be harmful, talk of retaliation premature
EghtesadOnline: Russian President Vladimir Putin said new sanctions under consideration by the United States would damage relations between the two countries, but it was too early to talk about…
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Russian police detain Putin critic Navalny ahead of Moscow protest
EghtesadOnline: Russian police detained opposition leader Alexei Navalny on Monday as he tried to leave his home ahead of a planned anti-Kremlin protest in Moscow, his wife said, but she called…
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President Rouhani congratulates Russia National Day
EghtesadOnline: President Hassan Rouhani in a message to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin congratulated Russia National Day to him.