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...The UK announced an additional raft of sanctions against Vladimir Putin’s regime in co-ordination with Western allies including full asset freezes against Sberbank, Russia’s largest bank....
...As Russian tanks streamed over Ukraine’s borders in the early hours of February 24, Vladimir Putin summoned the country’s leading oligarchs to a meeting at the Kremlin....
...The role played by Chelsea Football Club’s owner in Russia-Ukraine peace talks, which Vladimir Putin personally approved, remains unclear, according to a source sympathetic to the Russian billionaire, who...
...“The perception is exaggerated because everyone remembers the flurry of activity before the [financial] crisis,” Mr Borisovich said....
...Roman Borisovich, a Russian-born former investment banker who is now an anti-corruption campaigner, said the UK response could be “quite detrimental by supporting the worst assumptions of Russia’s corrupt...
...Vladimir Putin is poised for a fourth presidential election victory this month and the country is hosting the football World Cup this summer....
...Vladimir Yakunin, a man named by the US as a “close confidant” of Vladimir Putin, is a frequent critic of the west — so much so that some EU member states tried to include him on a sanctions list following...
...Russian government officials from president Vladimir Putin on down have repeatedly said that they consider an invasion of Ukraine beyond Crimea unlikely now, but have also refused to exclude such a possibility...
...The US and Russia have agreed to discuss a potential resolution to the Ukraine stand-off, after Vladimir Putin called Barack Obama in a move which may launch a fresh diplomatic effort to de-escalate the...
...Vladimir Shklyarov (Aminta, the shepherd) recovered from an early stumble to deliver an explosive grand pas....
...Aleksandr Borisovich Totoonov: member of the committee on culture, science, and information of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation. 12....
...federal issues, regional politics and the north of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation Evgeni Viktorovich Bushmin: deputy speaker of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation Aleksandr Borisovich...
...“I am confident that everything will be fine and in accordance with the law, and Mikhail Borisovich will be freed,” Mr Putin said. “God give him good health.”...
...First, I read an article by [Andrei] Illarionov [former economic adviser to Vladimir Putin]. Very interesting....
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