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...When Russian president Vladimir Putin visited Beijing for the Winter Olympics this month — he was one of the few foreign leaders to do so — Chinese president Xi Jinping threw his weight behind Putin’s opposition...
...western sanctions in retaliation for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine that have also targeted financial institutions, leading companies and the wealthy oligarchs that surround the administration of President Vladimir...
...A few months later, I returned to the college to watch a cooking class led by Norland staffers Penny Lukins and Kate Hunt, both in pink aprons....
...Artyom Lukin, a China-Russia relations expert at Far Eastern Federal University in Vladivostok, said Wang’s remarks were notable for “some changes in nuance”....
...said Mr Lukin. “This is their city. And they are rational people, they are not a mob.”...
...Vladimir Putin had been reassured that the regional election in September 2018 would be nothing to worry about....
...The first time Xi Jinping met Vladimir Putin after ascending to China’s presidency, he told the Russian leader: “I feel like our personalities have a lot in common.” That was in March 2013....
...Kiev also on Saturday released audio tapes of phone calls it purported proved close ties between Vladimir Lukin, a Kremlin envoy sent to negotiate the release of the OSCE German-led military mission taken...
...“I hope this marks the beginning of the de-escalation,” the bespectacled governor told reporters as he sat beside Vladimir Lukin, the Kremlin’s envoy to the hostage negotiation....
...In a telling gesture, Mr Putin’s representative in the Kiev talks, Vladimir Lukin, left on Friday without signing it as a witness – unlike the foreign ministers of France, Germany and Poland, who witnessed...
...Vladimir Lukin, the Russian representative who joined the compromise talks late on Thursday, left without signing the agreement as a witness – unlike the EU ministers....
...It emerged on Friday that Mr Putin had sent Vladimir Lukin, an envoy, to Slavyansk to try to negotiate the observers’ release....
...President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday he was sending Vladimir Lukin, a liberal former diplomat who now serves as the government’s human rights commissioner, to Kiev as a mediator....
...However Vladimir Lukin, Russia’s representative involved in Thursday’s late-night talks, had left before the peace deal was signed. “The chance for peace in Ukraine exists,” Mr Lukin said....
...Russia, meanwhile, said it was sending its own mediator, former human rights ombudsman Vladimir Lukin, to Kiev....
...Vladimir Lukin, the man sent by President Vladimir Putin’s government, is Russia’s human-rights ombudsman and somebody with a background in liberal politics – not a Kremlin stooge....
...Lukin, Russia’s human rights commissioner; and Javier Solana, the Spaniard who retired last year as the European Union’s foreign policy supremo – was set up in September to investigate the problem....
...First, I read an article by [Andrei] Illarionov [former economic adviser to Vladimir Putin]. Very interesting....
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