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...Russia’s president Vladimir Putin this month dismissed as “complete rubbish” suggestions that the Kremlin used gas supplies as a political weapon against other countries....
...The writer is founder and head of R.Politik, a political analysis firm Russian president Vladimir Putin on Thursday began a full-scale military invasion of Ukraine....
...Medvedchuk said Kozak is in Belarus....
...Ukrainian prosecutors are seeking the arrest of Viktor Medvedchuk, a close friend of Russia’s president Vladimir Putin and leader of Ukraine’s main pro-Russia party, on suspicion of offences including “treason...
...Ukraine has imposed sanctions on Viktor Medvedchuk, a close friend of Russian president Vladimir Putin and leader of Kyiv’s main pro-Russia party....
...Ukraine and its western allies are once again trying to work out whether Vladimir Putin means war....
...Ukraine has shut down three domestic television channels linked to a politician close to Vladimir Putin, alleging that they pose a national security risk by spreading Kremlin disinformation at a time when...
...The outlets were owned by an associate of Viktor Medvedchuk, an oligarch who boasts of having Russian president Vladimir Putin as a godfather to one of his daughters....
...Russia sent a top Kremlin official, Dmitry Kozak, to Bishkek to try to negotiate a peaceful solution to the stand-off....
...Vladimir Putin’s promotion of a crucial figure driving peace talks with Ukraine has been welcomed by Kyiv as a signal of renewed willingness in Moscow to resolve the six-year conflict between the two countries...
...Dmitry Kozak, Russian president Vladimir Putin’s deputy chief of staff, flew to Bishkek to meet Mr Japarov and Mr Jeenbekov last week. Mr Jeenbekov resigned two days later....
...The highest-profile casualties were deputy prime minister Maxim Akimov, who led Russia’s stalled plans to create a “digital economy”; Dmitry Kozak, who had been in charge of much of Russia’s Ukraine policy...
...Vladimir Putin has announced the most sweeping political changes in Russia in almost three decades....
...Last month, Russia’s deputy prime minister Dmitry Kozak said it could become operational in mid-2020....
...Russia’s energy ministry confirmed that the protocol followed talks involving Dmitry Kozak, deputy prime minister, Alexander Novak, energy minister, and Alexei Miller, Gazprom chief executive....
...earlier this month exchanged scores of prisoners in a goodwill gesture that Kiev hopes will lead to the first face-to-face peace talks between new president Volodymyr Zelensky and his Russian counterpart Vladimir...
...The question is what an unknown political movement would do for Ukraine at such a critical juncture — with a continuing IMF programme to prop up the ailing economy and pressure from Russian president Vladimir...
...Alexei Kudrin, a former finance minister, was last month asked by Vladimir Putin to draw up a new economic strategy for Russia....
...There was no immediate comment from Russian president Vladimir Putin, and officials in the EU or US were muted in their response....
...But if Moldova’s communist president Vladimir Voronin could turn down the Kozak memorandum we can be sure Poroshenko will do no less....
...The list of individuals is again fairly significant, capturing yet more of the Kremlin’s elite, those nearest and dearest to President Vladimir Putin....
...Mr Kozak’s comments came after dozens of journalists arriving in Sochi found their hotels in a state of disarray....
...“The political process in Ukraine will probably change now,” Mr Kozak was quoted by Russian news agencies as saying....
...Vladimir Putin decorated Kozak on Monday with the order of “Meritorious Service to the Motherland: First Class” – the highest civilian honor in Russia, for his work in overseeing preparations of the $50bn...
...Others added to the sanctions list include Dmitry Kozak, deputy prime minister, and Aleksei Pushkov, the chairman of the Duma committee on international affairs....
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