Chairman of the Committee on Constitutional Legislation and Statehood in the Upper House of the Council of the Russian Federation, Andrey Klishas, said today that the inauguration of Russian President Vladimir Putin will take place on May 7. According to Russian law, the newly elected president takes office for a six-year term. Putin's inauguration in 2018 was also held...
The Speaker of the Upper House of the Russian Parliament, Valentina Matvienko, a close associate of Vladimir Putin, warned Europe today that Russia has already written a law to retaliate if the West seizes nearly $300 billion in Russian assets and uses them to aid Ukraine. After Putin sent troops to Ukraine in 2022, the United States and its…
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz warned the President of Russia not to hope that support for Ukraine will decrease and that he will be able to continue the war. "The fact that the House of Representatives passed a decision on further financial support for Ukraine, especially arms support, sends a very clear message, including to the Russian president, that we do not ...
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The Kremlin today "reacted coldly" to French President Emmanuel Macron's call for a truce in international conflicts during the Paris Olympics, saying Ukraine could use it as an opportunity to regroup and rearm, foreign agencies report. The cessation of hostilities under an Olympic truce is a long-standing tradition, and Macron in an interview on Monday...
The victory of Peter Pellegrini in the presidential elections in Slovakia is the latest in a series of triumphs of the extreme right in Europe. Although the role of president is largely symbolic, Pellegrini's victory over his pro-European rival, Ivan Korchok, by a comfortable margin of six points, consolidated the power of Prime Minister Robert Fizzo. The result is…
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