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Minister Fired By Putin Killed Himself — Russia

Russia’s former transport minister Roman Starovoyt killed himself, Moscow announced on Monday, hours after the Kremlin said President Vladimir Putin had fired him. Starovoyt, 53, had...

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Trump’s Criticism Won’t Hit US-Russia Prisoner Swap Plans, Says Kremlin

The Kremlin said Tuesday that Donald Trump’s criticism of Vladimir Putin will not affect plans for a US-Russia prisoner exchange that the two presidents discussed in...

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Putin Orders Three-Day Truce In May, Ukraine Questions Delay

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday ordered a truce with Ukraine on May 8-10 to coincide with Moscow’s World War II commemorations, drawing ire from Ukraine...

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Kremlin Confirms Putin, Trump To Speak Tuesday

FILE: Former US President, Donald Trump and Russian President, Vladimir Putin. Credit: EMMANUEL DUNAND, JIM WATSON / AFP The Kremlin confirmed on Monday that Russian President...

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In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin meets with Sergei Mironov (not pictured), A Just Russia party leader, at the Kremlin in Moscow on November 22, 2024. (Photo by Vyacheslav PROKOFYEV / POOL / AFP) Advertisement Syria’s ousted president Bashar al-Assad and his family are in Moscow, a Kremlin source told Russian news agencies, hours after he fled the country as Islamist-led rebels entered Damascus. The announcement comes as Russia, a key Assad ally, called for an emergency meeting of the UN security council on the fast-changing situation on the ground in the war-torn country. “Assad and members of his family have arrived in Moscow,” the source told the TASS and Ria Novosti news agencies. “Russia granted them asylum on humanitarian grounds,” he added. Asked whether Assad was confirmed to be in Moscow, a Western official said they believed that was likely the case and had no reason to doubt Moscow’s claim. Advertisement The Kremlin source also said the rebels who ousted Assad in a lightning offensive “guaranteed the security of Russian army bases and diplomatic institutions on Syria’s territory”. Russia, Assad’s biggest backer along with Iran, holds a naval base in Tartus and a military airfield in Khmeimim. Moscow’s forces became militarily involved in the Syrian conflict in 2015, providing support for Assad’s forces to crush the opposition in the bloody civil war. “Russia has always been in favour of a political solution to the Syrian crisis. Our starting point is the need to resume negotiations under the auspices of the UN,” the Kremlin source added. Advertisement A Russian representative to the United Nations announced that Moscow had requested an emergency closed-door meeting of the UN Security Council on the situation in Syria for Monday afternoon. “The consequences (of the events in Syria) for this country and the whole region have not yet been measured,” the official said on Telegram. AFP

In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin meets with Sergei Mironov (not pictured), A Just Russia party leader,...

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Kremlin Warns France Against ‘Political Persecution’ Of Telegram Founder

The Kremlin warned France on Thursday not to turn a criminal case against Telegram founder Pavel Durov into “political persecution.” Russia, which has led...