Vladimir Putin

BERLIN: The European Union should stand together against "provocations" from Russia, but should also seek direct talks with President Vladimir Putin, said Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday. "In my opinion, we as the European…

MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday congratulated hardline Iranian judge Ebrahim Raisi on winning Iran's presidential election, RIA news agency cited a press officer at the Russian embassy in Tehran as saying. Putin also…

RANDOLPH: For his first meeting with Vladimir Putin in Geneva this week, President Joe Biden gifted his Russian counterpart a pair of American-made sunglasses in the US leader's signature aviator style. Peter Waszkiewicz, head of…

MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday praised the outcome of his summit with US President Biden and called him an astute and shrewd negotiator. The two leaders concluded three hours of talks on Wednesday at an opulent…

YEREVAN: Armenians vote Sunday in snap parliamentary elections called by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to end a political crisis ignited by his country's humiliating military defeat to Azerbaijan last year. Pashinyan, a former newspaper…

GENEVA: Russian President Vladimir Putin says opposition leader Alexei Navalny got what he deserved when he was handed a prison sentence. Navalny, Putin's most ardent political foe, was arrested in January upon returning from Germany,…

GENEVA: US President Joe Biden and Russia's Vladimir Putin have arrived on Wednesday at the lush lakeside Swiss mansion for their highly anticipated summit, a moment of consequential diplomacy at a time when both leaders agree that…

PARIS: With US President Joe Biden and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin set to meet for their first summit on Wednesday, we look back at previous historic encounters between the two nuclear powers: Dwight Eisenhower and Nikita…

BRUSSELS: US President Joe Biden ended one front in a Trump-era trade war when he met European Union leaders on Tuesday by agreeing a truce in a transatlantic dispute over aircraft subsidies that had dragged on for 17 years. The EU also…

PARIS: As US President Joe Biden prepares for his first summit meeting with Vladimir Putin -- who he has called "a killer" -- we look at what his predecessors thought of the Russian president. US president Bill Clinton said he hung up…