Foreign World

Russia will not provide free vaccination to foreign citizens – Putin

Ihesiulo Grace 4 June 2021 0

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Russia would not vaccinate foreign citizens against COVID-19 for free. “There is a practice where people from different countries, including businessmen, the chiefs of large European and other companies, intentionally come to Russia to

Foreign World

U.S., Russia hold talks on normalising relations

Ihesiulo Grace 20 May 2021 0

U.S. Secretary of State, Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, discussed normalising bilateral relations as they met in person for the first time on Wednesday in Iceland, reports said on Thursday. Blinken said the U.S. seeks “a predictable, stable relationship with Russia” in comments ahead of the meeting, according to a State Department […]

World

Putin predicts Trump’s impeachment won’t be upheld by U.S. Senate

Ihesiulo Grace 19 December 2019 0

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday predicted that the impeachment of U.S. President Donald Trump would not be upheld by the U.S. Senate. Putin told a nationally televised news conference that Trump’s Republican Party has the majority in the Senate. Trump’s Impeachment an ‘unconstitutional travesty’ – White House “It’s unlikely that they would want to […]

World

Russia enacts law to label individuals as foreign agents

Ihesiulo Grace 3 December 2019 0

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a legislation to enable authorities to label individuals as foreign agents. Authorities had previously been able to force entities implicated in serving the interests of a foreign power to register as a foreign agent or face closure. ALSO READ U.S. resumes aid to Lebanese military The Kremlin said in […]

Business

African mining sector attracts Russian investors in Moscow

Ihesiulo Grace 21 June 2019

Russia has declared interest in developing the mining industry in Africa through a multilateral approach. This was disclosed on Thursday during a panel session at the ongoing Afreximbank Annual Meeting in Moscow, Russia. One of the key focal points of the session was the Russian and African cooperation in the development of the mining industry […]

World

Russia has ‘invincible’ nuclear weapons

Ihesiulo Grace 1 March 2018 0

Russia has developed a new array of nuclear weapons that are invincible, according to President Vladimir Putin. Mr Putin made the claims as he laid out his key policies for a fourth presidential term, ahead of an election he is expected to win in 17 days’ time. The weapons he boasted of included a cruise […]

Politics World

Kerry in Russia Meeting Putin, Lavrov

Ihesiulo Grace 13 May 2015 0

U.S. Secretary of State John met Russian President Vladimir Putin Tuesday in the resort city of Sochi, in Kerry’s first visit to Russia since relations soured over sharp disagreements on Ukraine and Syria. Before sitting down with Putin, Kerry met Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov for more than four hours in what was then the […]

Headlines World

Putin Reappears, Laughs off Health Rumours

Ihesiulo Grace 17 March 2015 0

Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) and Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev speak during their meeting in the Konstantin Palace outside St. Petersburg, Russia, March 16, 2015. Russian President Vladimir Putin has reappeared in public following a 10-day absence, laughed off suggestions he had been forced to lie low because of poor health, saying on Monday that […]