Tag: vladimir putin

December 8, 2021

President Biden told Russian President Vladimir Putin that the U.S. and its European allies have “deep concerns” about Russia’s buildup of troops near Ukraine, warning the Russian leader that the U.S. would pursue “strong economic and other measures” in the […]

November 30, 2021

Not long after President Joe Biden attended two summits in Europe, a new issue appeared on the world stage. Tensions started to rise in Ukraine after both the Eastern European country and the U.S. expressed concerns at what seemed to […]

September 1, 2021

Russian President Vladimir Putin has criticized the United States’ involvement in Afghanistan, charging that its 20-year military presence in the country has achieved “zero.” Putin said Wednesday that for 20 years the U.S. military in Afghanistan “was trying … to […]

August 20, 2021

German Chancellor Angela Merkel traveled to Russia Friday to discuss the crisis in Afghanistan, the separatist conflict in Ukraine and Moscow’s treatment of imprisoned Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, among other issues. Merkel’s visit to Moscow comes as she is nearing […]

June 8, 2021

When U.S. President Joe Biden flies to Europe this week, he will find his hosts welcoming but wary. His predecessor Donald Trump may be gone, but he leaves a long shadow. Biden’s first foreign trip as president starts Wednesday and […]

March 16, 2021

Russia and Iran both carried out operations to try to interfere in the 2020 presidential election between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, according to a U.S. intelligence report released Tuesday. Russian President Vladimir Putin authorized “influence operations aimed at denigrating […]

November 19, 2020

Russian lawmakers are fed up with American social-media platforms labelling Russian state-affiliated outlets as Russian state-affiliated outlets. In recent years, Facebook and Twitter enraged outlets such as Sputnik and RT by removing some of their pages for “inauthentic behavior,” and […]

May 26, 2017

E-mails stolen in a phishing attack on a prominent critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin were manipulated before being published on the Internet. That’s according to a report published Thursday, which also asserts that the e-mails were manipulated in order […]