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News Articles: Vladimir Putin

Russian President Vladimir Putin points during a meeting with foreign policy experts at the Valdai Discussion Club in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia, Thursday.

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  • World

Putin congratulates Trump and says he's 'ready' to engage in dialogue

Russian President Vladimir Putin has congratulated Donald Trump on his election victory, saying he is ready to engage with the United States.

November 07, 2024
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  • Charles Maynes
Russia's President Vladimir Putin holds an exercise of the strategic deterrence forces via a videolink at the Kremlin in Moscow on Oct. 29.

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Who does Russia want in Washington?

Russia's Vladimir Putin says he endorses Vice President Harris, with a wink and a nod. “Russia likes that Donald Trump says he wants to improve relations between America and Russia,” one expert says.

November 05, 2024
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By:
  • Charles Maynes
Russian President Vladimir Putin and then President Donald Trump shake hands before a meeting in Helsinki, on July 16, 2018. A new book by the journalist Bob Woodward reports that Trump secretly shared COVID-19 tests with Putin in 2020.

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  • Politics

Trump secretly sent Putin COVID-19 tests during pandemic shortage, a new book reports

Vice President Harris is criticizing Trump over the reported shipment, which is detailed in a new book by the journalist Bob Woodward. The president's campaign has denied the reporting.

October 08, 2024
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  • Jason Breslow
<em>Wall Street Journal</em> reporter Evan Gershkovich stands in the glass defendant's booth at the Moscow City Court, in Moscow on Sept. 19, 2023.

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  • World

Who's who in the prisoner swap that has freed Evan Gershkovich from Russian prison

The Wall Street Journal reporter is among four Americans who will be returning home as part of a massive prisoner swap announced Thursday that involves six nations and two dozen people.

August 01, 2024
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By:
  • Jason Breslow
In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) and North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un attend a gala concert in Pyongyang, on Wednesday.

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  • Asia

Concerns mount as Russia and North Korea commit to a mutual defense pact

Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un signed a treaty upgrading their relationship and pledging military assistance if either one is attacked, drawing criticism from NATO, South Korea and other countries.

June 20, 2024
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By:
  • Anthony Kuhn
Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) and Vietnam's President To Lam pose for photos at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Thursday.

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  • World

Putin signs numerous deals with Vietnam in a bid to shore up Russia's ties in Asia

Russia's president signed at least a dozen deals with his Vietnamese counterpart and offered to supply fossil fuels to Vietnam, as Moscow is seeking to offset its international isolation.

June 20, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures while speaking on a visit to his campaign headquarters after a presidential election in Moscow, Russia, early Monday.

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  • World

Putin basks in election win that was never in doubt even as Russians quietly protest

Russian President Vladimir Putin will extend nearly a quarter century of rule for six more years after wrapping up an election that gave voters no real alternatives.

March 17, 2024
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  • GPB Newsroom
A member of a local election commission prepares a polling station with a sign that reads "Election of the President of Russia March 15-17 2024" for early voting in the village of Sennaya Guba, Republic of Karelia, on March 10.

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  • World

What to know about Russia's election, sure to hand Putin another term

Putin forever? Russia's president goes into this week's election with no serious contenders, cementing his already quarter-century hold on the Kremlin through at least 2030.

March 15, 2024
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  • Charles Maynes
Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers his annual state of the nation address in Moscow on Thursday.

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  • World

Putin warns of nuclear war if NATO sends troops to Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin issued explicit nuclear threats to the West, even as he assured Russians their country could both win the war in Ukraine and thrive economically.

February 29, 2024
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  • Charles Maynes
Russian President Vladimir Putin gets off a Tu-160M strategic bomber after a flight in Kazan, Russia, on Thursday.

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  • World

Putin remains defiant as ever 2 years into Russia's war in Ukraine

The Russian leader had a busy week, one that saw him exude confidence about Russia's military and economic resilience as Ukraine has increasingly struggled on the battlefield.

February 24, 2024
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  • Charles Maynes
Russia's President Vladimir Putin gives an interview to Tucker Carlson at the Kremlin in Moscow.

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  • World

What Tucker Carlson's interview with Vladimir Putin shows, and what it hides

Tucker Carlson did not ask Putin about how so many of his opponents wind up imprisoned and murdered, or the warrant the International Criminal Court has out for his arrest for war crimes in Ukraine.

February 23, 2024
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  • Scott Simon
People lay flowers paying the last respect to Alexei Navalny at the monument, a large boulder from the Solovetsky islands, where the first camp of the Gulag political prison system was established, near the historical the Federal Security Service (FSB, Soviet KGB successor) building in the background, in Moscow, Russia, on Saturday morning, Feb. 17, 2024.

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  • World

Over 400 detained in Russia as country mourns the death of Alexei Navalny

Over 400 people were detained in Russia while paying tribute to opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died at a remote Arctic penal colony, a prominent rights group reported.

February 18, 2024
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  • GPB Newsroom
Alexei Navalny in Berlin in 2020, surrounded by his wife and two children.

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  • Opinion

Opinion: Navalny's spirit and legacy live on

NPR's Scott Simon remembers Alexei Navalny. The Russian opposition leader died Friday in a penal colony.

February 17, 2024
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  • Scott Simon
Feb. 21, 2021: Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny shows a heart symbol standing in the cage during a hearing to a motion from the Russian prison service to convert the suspended sentence of Navalny from the 2014 criminal conviction into a real prison term in the Moscow City Court in Moscow, Russia.

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  • World

Photos: See Russian anti-corruption leader Alexei Navalny's life in pictures

The Russian opposition leader was a prominent critic of Vladimir Putin. He was known for organizing nationwide protests against election fraud and government corruption.

February 16, 2024
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By:
  • Korva Coleman and
  • Nicole Werbeck
Alexei Navalny rose to fame in Russia with headline-grabbing investigations into corruption in the highest levels of President Vladimir Putin's regime. Navalny (right) is seen here at a court hearing in Moscow in March 2017.

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  • Europe

Navalny's legacy: His ceaseless crusade against Putin and corruption

In a sign of Navalny's ability to inspire the public, in 2017 his followers chanted words in Putin's hometown that are among the most dangerous to utter in their country: "Russia without Putin."

February 16, 2024
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  • Bill Chappell
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