News of putin

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

President Macri meets with BRICS as BA hosts G20 agro summit

28-07-2018 09:07 Macri heads to South Africa in a busy week for bilateral ties.

US-RUSSIA RELATIONS

Report: Putin, Trump talked about a referendum for eastern Ukraine

21-07-2018 10:43 They discussed the possibility of a referendum in separatist-leaning eastern Ukraine.

EDITORIAL

Editorial: The geopolitics of football

14-07-2018 09:04 Russia’s master throughout this 21st century, Putin has constructed an authoritarian, racist and homophobic society in his own image.

GEOPOLITICS, RUSSIA AND THE WEST

Putin’s Russia shrug off isolation

16-06-2018 12:56 Host nation’s thrashing of Saudi Arabia raises expectations, but for the Russian president, the tournament is about much more than just football.

POLITICS AND FOOTBALL

Putin’s World Cup a prestige boost for sanctions-hit Russia

09-06-2018 10:55 The World Cup kicks off in Russia kicks off this week with the hosts at loggerheads with the West and intent on using the football showpiece to trumpet their superpower status.

US PRESIDENT WARNS RUSSIA

Trump: 'Missiles will be coming' over Syria alleged chemical attack

11-04-2018 11:48 Upping the stakes in an escalating confrontation with Moscow, Trump took to Twitter in the strongest assertion yet that he plans to take military action in Syria.

SIX MORE YEARS

What to expect from Putin and a resurgent Russia

19-03-2018 11:39 An exit poll suggests that Vladimir Putin has handily won a fourth term as Russia's president, adding six more years in the Kremlin for the man who has led the world's largest country for all of the 21st century.

SERGEI SKRIPAL AND CYBER ESPIONAGE

Spy games

17-03-2018 12:55 Russia is far from alone in the field of espionage and forward intelligence operations, with the United States at the forefront, and several others including China, Israel, and Iran, for example, also being active.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

UK ALLIES LINE UP TO BACK CRITICISM

Britain takes firm line in poisoned spy row with Russia

17-03-2018 10:01 US, France, Germany join UK in blaming Moscow for nerve agent poisoning of double agent Sergei Skripal, as Met Police launches new murder probe into death of another Russian exile and starts to re-examine 14 other cases.

AS I SEE IT

The great Russian bogeyman

10-03-2018 12:15 The reminder that for many decades the US has shown an active interest in other countries’ elections has been brushed off by the progressive establishment.

by James Neilson

WILL ALSO TRAVEL TO DAVOS & PARIS

Macri lands in Moscow with energy, agriculture on list of trade priorities

22-01-2018 12:41 A meeting with Putin at the Kremlin among Argentine officials and their Russian counterparts is not expected to produce any major trade outcomes.

Against Iceland, Croatia and Nigera

Argentina lands comfortably in World Cup Group D

01-12-2017 17:34 The team led by Lionel Messi and coach Jorge Sampaoli will face Iceland, the least populated nation to complete in next year’s cup, on Saturday June 16 at 10 am in the Otkrytie stadium in Moscow.