Vladimir Putin News

BERLIN a?? Russia's refusal to back a plan by leaders attending the G-8 summit to end the violence in Syria may have doomed any hope of a joint proposal on the two-year civil war in which more than 90,000 civilians have died.

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron poses for a group photograph with European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso; Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe; German Chancellor Angela Merkel; Russia's President Vladimir Putin; Cameron; US President Barack Obama; France's President Francois Hollande; Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper; Italy's ... (more)

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday that authorities will shut down a paper mill on the shores of Lake Baikal, which environmentalists say is a major pollutant threatening one of the world's largest fresh water lakes.

Presidents of Russia and the United States agreed during their meeting on Monday on "landmark steps" to improve cybersecurity, including establishing a communications link to exchange information about computer incidents of national security concern.

The U.S. State Department said Monday it wasn't surprised that Iran's newly elected president, Hassan Rouhani, said that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad should stay in power until 2014.

This moment happened during the G8 summit in North Ireland today. We have no idea what Vladimir Putin is saying, but we're happy to wildly speculate: Да ты заткнёшься наконец или нет? ... (more)

In this June 25, 2005 photo, Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a diamond-encrusted 2005 Super Bowl ring belonging to New England Patriots NFL football team owner Robert Kraft during a meeting of American business executives at the 18th century Konstantin Palace outside St. Petersburg, Russia.

Russia plans to delay its privatisation programme and hold on to stakes in state companies such as Rosneft for longer, a report said on Monday, compounding disappointment for investors who have been pulling money from the country.

Russia, like all leading industrial governments, has a responsibility to push opposed factions in Syria's civil war to the negotiating table as rapidly as possible and not to back a government that slaughters its citizens, Britain's prime minister said Monday.

Summoning young people to take responsibility for their country's future, Obama warned there is "more to lose now than there's ever been."

David Cameron has refused to comment on reports that GCHQ - Britain's electronic eavesdropping agency - mounted an intensive spying operation on foreign politicians attending two G20 summit meetings in London in 2009.

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Restless residents displaced by Colorado's most destructive wildfire ever are returning to previously closed neighborhoods as firefighters continue to tame the blaze.

Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova during a training session aboard a Vostok spacecraft simulator on January 17, 1964.

MOSCOW, June 16 Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated Hassan Rouhani with his election as Iran's new president and confirmed Russia's readiness to develop bilateral cooperation, the Kremlin press office reported on Sunday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has denied the accusation that he stole New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft's Super Bowl ring in 2005.

David Cameron, who has welcomed Barack Obama's announcement that the US will arm Syrian rebels, but not said whether he will follow suit.

This week, the prime minister gets to be a president: president of the G8 summit that opens at Lough Erne in Northern Ireland tomorrow.

More than 1,000 trade unionists, environmentalists and anti-poverty campaigners confronted heavy security in Belfast on Saturday to voice their anger at G8 leaders who meet in Northern Ireland next week.

WASHINGTON: The United States will keep Patriot missile batteries and F-16 fighter jets in Jordan after the completion of joint military exercises this month amid the crisis in neighboring Syria, the Pentagon said on Saturday.