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Putin, who first became president just over 18 years ago, is set to remain in power for another six years. (Photo: AP)

Blind psychic Baba Vanga predicted Vladimir Putin would rule world

According to reports, Vanga predicted in 1979 that Russia would become 'lord of the world' after Europe became a 'wasteland.'

19 Mar 2018 9:30 AM

President Putin stressed that Russia was the first country to destroy its chemical weapons. (Photo: AP)

Putin dismisses UK’s accusation over ex-spy’s poisoning, calls it ‘nonsense’

Putin said, 'Russia does not possess such agents. We have destroyed all our chemical arsenals under control of international observers.'

19 Mar 2018 9:07 AM

Polling at around 70 per cent, the macho leader is sure to extend his term to 2024 despite a lacklustre campaign ahead of a summer when global attention will be glued to Russia as it hosts the football World Cup. (Photo: AP)

Isolated but defiant, Russia set to re-elect strongman Putin

Putin is standing against 7 other candidates, including millionaire communist Pavel Grudinin, but none are polling more than 8 per cent.

18 Mar 2018 8:32 AM

Britain's foreign secretary accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of personally ordering the poisoning. Putin's spokesman denounced the claim. (Photo: AP)

Spy poisoning standoff: Russian foreign ministry summons UK envoy

Russia is expected to announce the expulsion of some British diplomats in a retaliatory measure.

17 Mar 2018 1:15 PM

Mueller could also be looking into the possible existence of a lurid videotape in Russian hands involving Trump and prostitutes dating back to the Miss Universe. (Photo: File)

Sex, embezzlement, espionage: Peek into Mueller’s Russia probe

The investigation’s main focus is possible Trump campaign collusion with Russia.

16 Mar 2018 5:39 PM

Donald Trump has faced fierce criticism in the United States for doing too little to punish Russia for the election meddling and other actions. (Photo: File)

US hits Russians with sanctions for election meddling, cyber attacks

While Trump has frequently called the Russia probe a ‘witch hunt,’ the new sanctions appear to affirm Mueller’s investigative strategy.

16 Mar 2018 3:01 PM

May said there was ‘no alternative conclusion’ other than that the Russian state was culpable" for the attack on Skripal and his daughter, who fell ill from exposure to a substance called Novichok. (Photo: Representational/ AP)

Moscow asserts it will retaliate soon to May firing of envoys over spy poisoning

‘The British government made a choice for confrontation with Russia,’ the Russian foreign ministry said in a statement.

15 Mar 2018 12:55 PM

May said the biggest expulsions from London in 30 years would degrade Russian intelligence capabilities in Britain for years to come. (Photo: AP | File)

First in 30 years: UK expels 23 Russian diplomats over spy poisoning

Theresa May also said that UK is suspending high-level diplomatic contact with Russia over spy poisoning.

14 Mar 2018 7:02 PM

International attention has been focused in recent weeks mainly on the plight of civilians in eastern Ghouta, where the United Nations believes 400,000 people have been trapped under punishing bombardment, deprived of food and medicine. (Photo: Representational/ AFP)

After surviving massacre, food medicine shortage, injured leave E Ghouta

Women carrying infants, men hobbling on crutches and an old man in a wheelchair waited at a school nearby.

14 Mar 2018 4:10 PM

Russian interference in US polls more than alarming: Hillary Clinton

Hillary said it was shameful that the US was the only country which was now not in the Paris agreement on climate change.

12 Mar 2018 5:52 AM

At least 20 civilians -- including four children -- were killed in Douma on Saturday, in addition to 17 civilians in other battlefront towns, said the Observatory. (Photo: AFP)

Ghouta sirens distress call as death toll rises to 1000

Shelling and air strikes slammed into Douma on Saturday, trapping residents inside their basements for hours.

11 Mar 2018 12:35 PM

Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested in a US television interview that Ukrainians, Tatars or 'Jews,' could have meddled in the 2016 US presidential election -- but not the Kremlin. (Photo: File/AP)

Maybe ‘Jews’, but not Kremlin: Vladimir Putin on 2016 US election meddling

US intel agencies concluded in 2017 that Putin personally directed an effort to influence the 2016 US presidential election.

11 Mar 2018 11:42 AM

Counter-terrorism police are now leading the investigation and Britain's military research laboratory at Porton Down is trying to identify the substance which caused Skripal, 66, and his daughter to fall ill. (Photo: AP)

UK ministers to probe Russian ex-spy’s mysterious poisoning, Kremlin suspected

Britain has cautioned Russia that if the Kremlin was behind any poisoning then there will be grave consequences.

07 Mar 2018 7:27 PM

Government troops have advanced rapidly across farmland in Eastern Ghouta in the past week and had wrested control of 40 percent of the enclave as of early Tuesday. (Photo: AFP)

Homes reduced to rubbles, 800 dead as air strikes continue in E Ghouta

More than 340,000 people have been killed and millions displaced in Syria since the start of the civil war in 2011.

07 Mar 2018 1:22 PM

Dysfunctionality, drift lingers in Trump’s US

Ironically, making sense of all this to the world at large is still the “swamp” that Mr Trump promised to drain.

07 Mar 2018 3:09 AM

Russian President Vladimir Putin (Photo: AP)

Stop this muscle-flexing

We’ve reason to fear that the year we have just stepped into will develop into a fiercely contentious one.

04 Mar 2018 1:48 AM

'Russian statements threatening to target allies are unacceptable and counterproductive,' NATO spokesperson Oana Lungescu said in a statement. (Photo: AFP)

Russia’s warning to allies are ‘unacceptable’: NATO

The Crimea crisis has given NATO a new sense of purpose, but alliance insists its new deterrents in the Baltics and Poland are defensive.

03 Mar 2018 8:17 AM

Vladimir Putin warns West with ‘invincible’ weaponry

Putin showed tests of a new missile complex of a type that he said is not owned by any other country.

03 Mar 2018 6:27 AM

Hypersonic weapons under development by Russia and China -- as well as by the US -- can beat regular anti-missile defenses because they are designed to switch direction in flight and do not follow a predictable arc like conventional missiles, making them much harder to track and intercept. (Photo: AP/File)

US says fully prepared after Putin boasts of 'invincible' missiles

Putin described several advances in missile technology, including a hypersonic weapon that can fly at many times the speed of sound.

02 Mar 2018 9:33 AM

While it is not clear who is financing the “Elections: Adults Only” content that has also appeared on social networks and YouTube, the appeal to younger voters is unlikely to displease the Kremlin. (Photo: AFP)

Adults only: Ads and viral videos aim to sex up Russian election

A separate video appeared on YouTube this month with the title, 'Sex and elections are for adults only'.

01 Mar 2018 5:38 PM

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