Speaking to Tucker Carlson, Russian president Vladimir Putin essentially blamed America for the continued imprisonment of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich. “I do not rule out that the person you refer to, Gershkovich, may return to his motherland,” said Putin at the end of the two-hour video, which was released on Thursday. “But at … Read more
Tucker Carlson released his two-hour interview with Vladimir Putin, the Russian president whose military is deep into its second year of the Ukraine invasion, marking an unprecedented sitdown between an American journalist and adversarial head of state during wartime. Watch it here. The Putin interview in its entirety was offered for free and unedited, Carlson … Read more
The Kremlin has denied that Vladimir Putin is ill following reports that he suffered a heart attack over the weekend. An unsourced report by a Russian Telegram channel, picked up by some Western media, claimed on Sunday that the Russian president had been struck by a serious illness that evening. On Tuesday, a spokesman for … Read more
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping walk side by side to a group photo session during the third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Oct. 18, 2023. Grigory Sysoyev | AFP | Getty Images In a rare international appearance since the … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave RIGA, Latvia — Russian President Vladimir Putin, increasingly isolated over the war against Ukraine, met Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in China on Tuesday. The meeting was Putin’s first with a European Union leader since the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant in March, accusing him … Read more
Vera Putina in 2008 – Kate Weinberg Vera Putina, who has died aged 96, emerged from obscurity in 1999 claiming to be the organic mom of Vladimir Putin, whom she claimed to have deserted when he was a toddler. In his “quasi-autobiography” First Individual, Putin wrote that he was born and introduced up in St … Read more
When Russia invaded Ukraine final yr, everybody was shocked and scared. However for me, it was deeply private. I’ve identified Putin’s murderous intent for the final 20 years, and I knew how horrible this was going to be. I had been the biggest international investor in Russia till 2005, after I was expelled from the … Read more