Vladimir Putin

Putin signs New Russian Law Allowing FSB Agents to Open Fire on Crowds

New Russian law allows Federal Security Service (FSB) agents to open fire on crowds, even if there a...

Jan 04, 2016 11:44 PM EST

Putin signs law allowing Russia to overturn rulings of international rights courts

President Vladimir Putin has signed a law allowing Russia's Constitutional Court to decide whether o...

Dec 15, 2015 09:41 PM EST

How the world learned its lesson and got a climate deal

It was an agreement born from a fear of failure, delivered by the smoothness of French diplomacy. Si...

Dec 13, 2015 09:50 PM EST

Russia warns Turkey over Aegean warship incident

Russia on Sunday warned Turkey to stop staging what it called provocations against its forces in or ...

Dec 13, 2015 09:31 PM EST

Russia and Turkey refuse to back down in row over jet downing

Russia sent an advanced missile system to Syria on Wednesday to protect its jets operating there and...

Nov 25, 2015 09:36 PM EST

France, Belgium widen probe into Paris attacks, Hollande meets with Obama

An investigation into the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris widened on Tuesday when French prosecutors said a...

Nov 24, 2015 10:22 PM EST

Iran says U.S. has plan to divide Iraq, pleads with Iraqis to resist

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Tuesday accused the United States of trying to divid...

Nov 24, 2015 09:10 AM EST

Putin says Russia needs own investigation into doping allegations

President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday Russia needed to conduct its own investigation into alleg...

Nov 11, 2015 10:08 PM EST

Russia's Syria force grows to 4,000, U.S. officials say

Moscow's military force in Syria has grown to about 4,000 personnel, but this and more than a month ...

Nov 05, 2015 03:15 AM EST

Flight recorders show crashed Russian jet not struck from outside - investigator

The Russian plane that crashed in Egypt was not struck from the outside and the pilot did not make a...

Nov 02, 2015 08:09 PM EST

First bodies delivered to Russia after Egypt plane crash

The first bodies from a plane crash in Egypt in which all 224 passengers, most of them Russians, die...

Nov 02, 2015 05:48 AM EST

U.S. money laundering probe into Deutsche Moscow unit widens - FT

U.S. regulators are expanding their probe into Deutsche Bank AG (DBKGn.DE)(DB.N) as a money launderi...

Oct 25, 2015 11:29 PM EDT

Putin uses Assad visit to talk up Kremlin role as Syria broker

Vladimir Putin used a rare visit to Moscow by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to talk up the Kremli...

Oct 21, 2015 06:44 PM EDT

Russia's Putin, Saudi defense minister agree to cooperate in Syria

Russian President Vladimir Putin met Saudi Arabia's defense minister on Sunday, in Moscow's biggest ...

Oct 11, 2015 08:38 PM EDT

Russia begins Syria air strikes in its biggest Mideast intervention in decades

Russia launched air strikes in Syria on Wednesday in its biggest Middle East intervention in decades...

Sep 30, 2015 06:56 PM EDT

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