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Hyderabad: Two days before he ordered the invasion of Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin in his long-winded, unhinged and bizarre speech while expressing his grievances against the West for its eastward expansion of NATO allegedly threatening Russia’s security, dismissed Ukraine’s existence as a state, stating it was a fiction and created by Lenin in 1922. […]
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Brussels: EU leaders have said that they will block most Russian oil imports by the end of 2022 to punish Moscow for invading Ukraine, media reports said. The EU-wide ban will affect oil that arrives by sea – around two-thirds of imports – but not pipeline oil, following opposition from Hungary, BBC reported. Poland and […]
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Kiev: The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has condemned the decree signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, which allows residents of Ukraine’s southern Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions to apply for Russian citizenship under a fast-track procedure. “The decree of the President of Russia is legally null and void and will have no legal consequences,” the ministry was […]
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Munich: Vladimir Putin’s daughter Katerina Tikhonova has a lover called Zelensky, the same name as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, according to reports, Daily Mail reported. Sanctions against the 35-year-old Katerina — imposed over her father’s invasion of Ukraine — have stopped her regular flights from Moscow to Munich to live with her new man, during […]
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By Stefan Wolff, Tatyana Malyarenko Russians gathered on May 9 for the annual Victory Day celebrations, a hugely symbolic commemoration of Nazism’s defeat in the second world war. Elsewhere in the world, there is general agreement that Russia’s military has so far failed to achieve the strategic territorial gains that would have allowed Vladimir Putin […]
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Washington: Russian President Vladimir Putin’s alleged girlfriend, Alina Kabaeva, is included in the sixth proposed package of European Union sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine. According to two European diplomatic sources, Kabaeva, who has been romantically linked to Putin was included in proposed EU sanctions list, reported CNN. At this stage, names can […]
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By Alexander Gillespie There could be no better example of the United Nations’ failure to live up to its founding ideals than the recent visit by Secretary-General António Guterres to Russia. Attempting to calm the dangerous war in Ukraine, he obtained nothing of significance. No peace deal, no blue helmeted peacekeepers in the warzone keeping […]
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Washington: Russian President Vladimir Putin could formally declare war on Ukraine as soon as May 9, a move that would enable the full mobilisation of Moscow’s reserve forces as invasion efforts continue to falter, US and Western officials believe. May 9, known as ‘Victory Day’ in Russia, commemorates the country’s defeat of the Nazis in […]
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Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin may be forced to give up control of the war in Ukraine for days as he is set for cancer surgery, and will reportedly nominate hardline former FSB chief Nikolai Patrushev to take temporary control of the invasion while he is under the knife, a Kremlin insider has claimed. Patrushev, […]
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The defeat of the politics of polarisation and hatred in the recent presidential elections in France holds significance that goes beyond Europe. President Emmanuel Macron, who represents centrist politics, won by a fairly comfortable margin over Le Pen of the far-right ideology, thereby arresting the tide of right-wing extremist tendencies in a society that is […]
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Kyiv: Amid the ongoing Ukraine-Russia war, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned the world to be prepared for the possibility of Russian President Vladimir Putin using tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine, reported CNN. Zelenskyy, in an interview with CNN, said, “Not only me — all of the world, all of the countries have to be […]
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By Joseph Wright, Abel Escribà-Folch Russia’s invasion of Ukraine presents foreign policymakers with few good options to punish Russian President Vladimir Putin, or to deter these types of aggressions in the future. The US government, for example, continues to push for additional sanctions on Russia in response to news of Russian military atrocities, even though […]
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By Kim Kaivanto President Vladimir Putin’s demand that “unfriendly countries” henceforth pay for Russian gas in rubles has had several immediate effects. With the Europeans given one week to switch to paying in the Russian currency, it has driven up the price of natural gas, making it more expensive for them to maintain the sanctions […]
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The White House had been avoiding applying the designation to Putin, saying it requires investigation and an international determination.
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By Amitabh Mattoo The war in Ukraine may reverse non-proliferation measures including the fragile détente between India and Pakistan. When the ‘father’ of the atomic bomb, scientist J Robert Oppenheimer, witnessed the first nuclear test in New Mexico in July 1945, he was reminded of Hinduism’s most important text, the Bhagvat Gita. “Now I am […]
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By Amitava Mukherjee While holding ‘Lenin and his associates’ responsible for the birth of Ukraine as a separate geographical identity, Vladimir Putin, the incumbent Russian President, has certainly failed to grasp the real message of history. Putin thinks that ‘Lenin and his associates did it in the sloppiest way in relation to Russia — by […]
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Facebook and Instagram have instituted a temporary change in policy that allows users in some countries to post content that's usually forbidden.
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London: UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has set out a six-point plan to ensure Russia’s defeat in the ongoing war in Ukraine, the media reported on Sunday. Writing in The New York Times, the Prime Minister said that “(Russian President Vladimir Putin) must fail and must be seen to fail in this act of aggression”, […]
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Moscow: Russia has “practically” completed the “mission” of destroying Ukraine’s main military infrastructure, including weapon warehouses, ammunition depots, aviation and air defense systems, President Vladimir Putin said Saturday. “Russian forces will fulfill all their assigned tasks and the operation in Ukraine is proceeding in accordance with the plan and schedule,” Putin was quoted as saying […]
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Kyiv: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called for Russian President Vladimir Putin to meet him, salting the proposal with sarcasm. “Sit down with me to negotiate, just not at 30 meters,” he said Thursday, apparently referring to recent photos of Putin sitting at one end of an extremely long table when he met with French […]
