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Russia's Kamila Valieva attends a training session on 12 February 2022 prior the Figure Skating Event at the Beijing 2022 Olympic Games. Picture: Picture: Manan Vatsyayana/AFP

President vladimir putin

Putin says Valieva could not have won skating gold 'dishonestly'

By AFP

At February's Games Valieva became the first woman to land a quadruple jump in Olympic competition, helping the Russian team secure gold in the team event.

  • Maksim Korobych stands near firefighters in front of a destroyed apartment building after it was shelled in the northwestern Obolon district of Kyiv on 14 March 2022. Picture: AFP

    Ukrainian President Zelensky to address Congress, raises hope for breakthrough

    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said ongoing talks to halt two weeks of fighting with Russia were progressing with difficulty but raised hopes a breakthrough.

    149 days ago
  • Russia accounts for nearly half of all arms imports into Africa. © swisshippo/123rf.com

    YONELA DIKO: Is Putin fighting for a world that no longer exists?

    Russia missed the boat after World War 2 to form strong alliances and define the new world order and has been chasing the tail of Nato since 1949.

    156 days ago
  • Ukrainian service members collect unexploded shells after a fight with Russian raiding groups. Picture: AFP

    HAJI MOHAMED DAWJEE: When it comes to war, send in the clowns

    If one man is going to decide to go to war, then he must go to war with the man he declares war against and not the whole country, writes Haji Mohamed Dawjee.

    161 days ago
  • Russian President Vladimir Putin participates via video link in a ceremony launching a gold processing facility in Kyrgyzstan, in Moscow on 17 March 2021. Picture: Alexei Druzhinin/AFP

    Putin to oversee Russian 'strategic' missile drills

    News of the drills come as Russia announces the pullback of troops from around Ukraine, a force that had driven concerns in the West -- particularly Washington -- that Moscow was planning an imminent attack.

    173 days ago
  • FILE: While Germany's Angela Merkel has described the Taliban's return to power as "bitter", Russia has taken a more conciliatory tone. Picture: AFP

    Afghan debacle set to cloud Merkel's final Putin visit

    As Merkel prepares to bow out of politics following an election in Germany on 26 September, the crisis in Afghanistan could be the latest subject to drive a wedge between herself and Russia's Vladimir Putin.

    356 days ago
  • Russian President Vladimir Putin participates via video link in a ceremony launching a gold processing facility in Kyrgyzstan, in Moscow on 17 March 2021. Picture: Alexei Druzhinin/AFP

    Putin's party holds congress amid opposition clampdown

    Critics say the moves are aimed at ensuring that Navalny, who was jailed earlier this year for two-and-a-half years on old fraud charges he says are politically motivated, does not spoil the vote for the 68-year-old Kremlin chief and his deeply unpopular party.

    417 days ago
  • FILE: A combination of photos of US President Joe Biden on 15 March 2021 and Russian President Vladimir Putin on 6 March 2020. Picture: Eric Baradat, Alexey Nikolsky/AFP/Sputnik

    Putin hopes Biden less impulsive than Trump

    Though he described relations with the United States as having "deteriorated to its lowest point in recent years," Vladimir Putin said he expects he can work with Joe Biden.

    424 days ago
  • FILE: Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in Berlin's Charite hospital. Picture: @navalny/ Instagram

    Mass protests called across Russia to 'save Navalny's life'

    The team of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny on Sunday called for massive protests across Russia next week to help save the life of the hunger-striking opposition leader.

    479 days ago
  • Navalny posted a picture, appearing with his wife and two children in the Berlin hospital, on Instagram. Picture: Instagram/

    Kremlin critic Navalny could 'die any minute': doctors

    In March, President Vladimir Putin's most prominent opponent went on hunger strike to demand proper medical treatment for back pain and numbness in his legs and hands.

    480 days ago
  • Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny rides on a bus from a plane to a terminal of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport on 17 January 2021. Picture: AFP

    Navalny says health deteriorating, suffering sleep deprivation 'torture'

    The 44-year-old was arrested on his return to Russia in January from Germany, where he spent months recovering from a near-fatal nerve agent poisoning in August that he blames on the Kremlin.

    503 days ago
  • FILE: Russian President Vladimir Putin on October 11, 2019. Picture: AFP

    Putin accuses West of using Navalny to 'contain' Russia

    Putin suggested that the wave of protests recently held across Russia in the wake of Navalny's arrest and imprisonment had also been fed from abroad.

    542 days ago
  • Russian President Vladimir Putin. Picture: @KremlinRussia_E/Twitter.

    Russia says it has produced first batch of coronavirus vaccine

    The Russian vaccine is called "Sputnik V" after the Soviet-era satellite that was the first launched into space in 1957.

    725 days ago
  • FILE: Russian President Vladimir Putin on October 11, 2019. Picture: AFP

    Russia has developed 'first' coronavirus vaccine: Putin

    Russia has been pushing hard to quickly develop a coronavirus vaccine and said earlier this month it hoped to launch mass production within weeks and turn out 'several million' doses per month by next year.

    729 days ago
  • A woman carries a placard reading "Freedom for Furgal!", during an unauthorised rally in support of Sergei Furgal, the governor of the Khabarovsk region who was arrested a week ago, in the Russian far eastern city of Khabarovsk on 18 July 2020. Picture: AFP

    Tens of thousands stage anti-Kremlin protests in Russia's Far East

    The protests in Khabarovsk, a city of some 600,000 people, began a week ago following the sudden arrest of popular governor Sergei Furgal in a murder probe.

    753 days ago
  • In this file photo taken on 24 March 2020, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during a news conference on COVID-19 situation in Canada from his residence in Ottawa, Canada. Picture: AFP.

    Russia not welcome at G7, Canada's Trudeau says

    Russia was expelled from what was then the G8 in 2014 when Trump’s predecessor, Barack Obama, was US president, after Moscow annexed the Crimea region from Ukraine.

    800 days ago
  • FILE: Russian President Vladimir Putin. Picture: AFP

    Putin signs Russia's constitutional reform law

    Putin (67) stunned the country on Tuesday when he backed a last-minute proposal to add a condition to the reform package for his possible return to the Kremlin after 2024.

    879 days ago
  • Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Picture: Facebook.com.

    Putin opponent Navalny may have been targeted with 'toxic agent' - doctor

    The Russian opposition leader is serving a 30-day jail sentence for calling Saturday's rally after authorities blocked prominent independent candidates from taking part in Moscow parliament elections in September.

    1108 days ago
  • The Syrian Red Crescent and the United Nations deliver an aid convoy to Al-Nishabieh in Rural Damascus, Syria. The convoy carried relief items of food parcels, flour, nutrition, medicines and medical materials for 1,440 families there. Picture: Twitter/ @SYRedCrescent

    End Syria hospital attacks, Russia told at UN

    The outcome led to a rare statement following the meeting by the UN's humanitarian chief, Mark Lowcock.

    1119 days ago
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