Ilya Arkhipov
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Putin Courts China’s Xi for Help in Showdown With the West
As the leaders meet in Beijing, Russia claims China’s support for its security demands against the U.S. and NATO → Read More
Putin Holds Out Hope for Deal With U.S. on Security Tensions
President Vladimir Putin lambasted the U.S. and its allies for “deceiving” Russia over the expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization but suggested further talks may yield a resolution that address Moscow’s security concerns. → Read More
Russia Demands NATO Return to 1997 in Security Treaty Proposals
Russia demanded the North Atlantic Treaty Organization withdraw its forces to positions they occupied in 1997 as it set out sweeping proposals for a massive Western pullback in two draft security treaties presented to the U.S. this week. → Read More
Putin Says He’s ‘Feeling Fine’ After Taking Experimental Booster
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday he took an experimental nasal Covid-19 vaccine earlier this week, a day after getting a booster injection of the locally developed Sputnik Light inoculation. → Read More
Putin Won’t Go to Glasgow for COP26 Climate Summit, Kremlin Says
President Vladimir Putin will not travel to Glasgow for the COP26 climate summit next month and the format of Russian participation in the meeting is still under discussion, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Wednesday. → Read More
Russia Signals Europe Won’t Get Extra Gas Without Nord Stream 2
Russia is signaling that it won’t go out of its way to offer European consumers extra gas to ease the current energy crisis unless it gets something in return: regulatory approval to start shipments through the controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline. → Read More
Putin to Self-Isolate After Covid-19 Outbreak in Kremlin
Russian President Vladimir Putin will go into self-isolation after being exposed to several people in his entourage infected with Covid-19, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Tuesday. → Read More
Putin Hails Biden After Russian Senator Questions U.S. Leader’s Fitness
Russian President Vladimir Putin slammed the door on state-media speculation that his U.S. counterpart Joe Biden was too old to go toe-to-toe with him after the two met Wednesday for their first summit. → Read More
Biden, Putin Conclude Geneva Summit After About 2.5 Hours
Presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin concluded their first summit in the Swiss city of Geneva on Wednesday after about 2.5 hours of meetings, seeking to dial back tensions between the two former Cold War adversaries that have reached the highest level in years. → Read More
Biden and Putin Look for Detente in Summit After Rising Tensions
Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin kick off what could be more than four hours of meetings on Wednesday afternoon in Geneva, with officials from both countries keeping expectations low for any breakthrough agreement. → Read More
Putin Says He Wants Better Ties With Biden Despite U.S. Pressure
Russian President Vladimir Putin said he hopes a summit with his U.S. counterpart Joe Biden this month in Geneva will help to improve fraught ties, though he accused Washington of trying to keep his country down. → Read More
Putin Got Vaccinated, But Still Only a Select Few Can Meet Him
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres met with Russia’s prime minister, foreign minister and even university students during his visit to Moscow this week. Though he was steps away from the Kremlin, all he got from President Vladimir Putin was a video call. → Read More
U.S. Says Russia Postpones Restrictions on Embassy in Moscow
Russia put off imposing restrictions on the U.S. embassy in Moscow, the diplomatic post said Friday, as the two former Cold War rivals prepare for a possible presidential summit. → Read More
Putin Moves to Quit Open Skies as Russia Looks to Biden Summit
President Vladimir Putin moved to withdraw from the Open Skies treaty already abandoned by the U.S., as Russia said it hopes summit talks with President Joe Biden will focus on strategic stability. → Read More
Putin Pitches Russia’s Covid-19 Vaccine But Still Won’t Take It
While Vladimir Putin this week hailed international recognition of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine against Covid-19, the Kremlin says the president still hasn’t taken the inoculation that he enthusiastically recommends to other world leaders. → Read More
Putin Can’t Take Russia’s ‘Safe’ Covid Vaccine, Kremlin Says
(Bloomberg) -- President Vladimir Putin told fellow world leaders last week that both of Russia’s Covid-19 vaccines, including one he championed as the world’s first inoculation against the disease, are safe and effective. That doesn’t mean he’s taken a jab. → Read More
Russia Extends Gulag Historian’s Prison Sentence to 13 Years
A Russian regional court added nearly a decade to the prison sentence of a historian of Stalin-era repressions for sexually assaulting his adopted daughter in a case critics say was fabricated to punish him for his work. → Read More
Russia to Start Trials Abroad for Covid-19 Vaccine It Approved
Russia plans to start international clinical trials of its Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine that it has already approved for use as it ramps up the number of domestic volunteers to more than 40,000 people as early as next week. → Read More
Russia Opposition Blames Putin for Navalny’s Suspected Poisoning
(Bloomberg) -- Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny has been hospitalized with suspected poisoning and is in intensive care, his spokeswoman said Thursday. Navalny, 44, fell ill on a plane returning to Moscow from the Siberian city of Tomsk, Kira Yarmysh, the spokeswoman, said on Twitter. → Read More
Putin Won’t Submit to What Is Seen as Saudi Oil-Price Blackmail
Russian President Vladimir Putin will refuse to submit to what the Kremlin sees as oil blackmail from Saudi Arabia, signaling the price war that’s roiling global energy markets will continue. → Read More