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Vladimir Putin
There are growing concerns war games planned next month by Russia with its neighbor Belarus could be a cover for something more sinister.
HONG KONG/ BEIJING, Aug 17- CEFC China Energy, which has grown from a niche oil trader to a sprawling energy conglomerate, is in talks to acquire a stake in Russian state oil giant Rosneft, three people with direct knowledge of the discussions said. Russia has overtaken Saudi Arabia as China's biggest oil supplier, and Rosneft is by far Russia's biggest and most...
BATON ROUGE, La.— A Muslim-American radio host is accusing the publisher of a notorious neo-Nazi website of defaming him by falsely labeling him the "mastermind" of a deadly concert bombing in England, according to a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday. SiriusXM Radio show host Dean Obeidallah sued The Daily Stormer's publisher, Andrew Anglin, two days after domain...
Former Russian Economy Minister Alexei Ulyukayev told his bribery trial on Wednesday that he had been framed by a close lieutenant of President Vladimir Putin into accepting a payment of $2 million.
MOSCOW— Breaking months of silence, the former Russian economic development minister on trial for allegedly accepting a $2 million bribe publicly accused the head of Russia's oil company on Wednesday of setting him up. Alexei Ulyukayev, the highest-ranking Russian official to have been arrested since 1993, was detained last year at the headquarters of...
MOSCOW, Aug 15- New U.S. sanctions on Moscow have forced Russian business chiefs to accept that Donald Trump's rise to power is not about to produce a " Trump Bump" in foreign investment. For the business community in Moscow, the message is clear-- there is no immediate prospect of Washington softening its stance towards Moscow. "The mere fact that the U.S. and Western...
MOSCOW, Aug 15- Foreign investors kept on buying Russian stocks and bonds in July despite tensions fuelled by another round of U.S. sanctions against Russia, the Russian central bank said on Tuesday. Non-residents bought a net 36 billion roubles worth of Russian treasury bonds, known as OFZs, on the Moscow exchange in July, while their net holdings in Russian...
The U.S. and NATO alliance are getting mixed signals from Turkey at a time when Russia is increasingly warming to Ankara.
MOSCOW, Aug 12- Russia has nominated former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder to the board of its biggest oil producer Rosneft as an independent director, according to a government decree published late on Friday. Rosneft, in which Russia has a 50 percent plus one share, is under Western sanctions over Moscow's role in the Ukraine crisis.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has President Donald Trump's thanks — for booting U.S. diplomats out of his country.
Caracas/ Houston, Aug 11- Venezuelas unraveling socialist government is increasingly turning to ally Russia for the cash and credit it needs to survive and offering prized state-owned oil assets in return, sources familiar with the negotiations told Reuters. Venezuela's state-owned oil firm, Petroleos de Venezuela, has been secretly negotiating since at...
A $500 giant inflatable Trump-like chicken is available for sale on eBay.
Escalating tensions between the U.S. and the Korean Peninsula have highlighted similarities between President Donald Trump and another political heavyweight: Vladimir Putin, leading political analyst Charles Hecker told CNBC Thursday.
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has dismissed Trump's pledge to respond to North Korea with "fire and fury" if it threatens to attack the U.S.
Russia’s anti-corruption campaigner Alexei Navalny is struggling to present a convincing policy program to the wider public, Financial Times reports.
COLUMBIA, S.C.— South Carolina said it had filed its largest lawsuit ever against the federal government, seeking to force the U.S. Department of Energy to make good on a deal to remove plutonium from the state. South Carolina for years has tried to recover the fines as part of another lawsuit. Childs has also ruled South Carolina couldn't claim the feds were...
CNBC's Kayla Tausche reports President Trump is taking a victory lap after a strong jobs number, and told a crowd in West Virginia the Russia inquiry was a "fabrication."
The way to deal with the Kremlin is to be firm, says Evelyn Farkas, NBC national security analyst, talking about new Russia sanctions signed into law.
For Russian agents, LinkedIn provides a rich hunting ground, Newsweek reports.
In a tweet, Trump contended the U.S. relationship with Moscow "is at an all-time and very dangerous low."
