The sudden death this month of writer Vladimir Pribylovsky known for his investigations into the sources of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s wealth caused many in Russia to wonder whether anyone can still threaten the president’s entrenched rule.
The gorgeous wife of accused Kremlin hitman Andrey Lugovoy appeared in a twisted Russian propaganda movie which – not surprisingly – absolved President Vladimir Putin of blame in the assassination of turncoat spy Alexander Litvinenko.
On Thursday, a formal British inquiry into the assassination of Russian defector Alexander Litvinenko released its findings: Litvinenko was murdered, and Vladimir Putin “probably” approved the operation personally.
LONDON – President Vladimir Putin probably approved a Russian intelligence operation to murder ex-KBG agent Alexander Litvinenko, a judge led-British inquiry into the 2006 killing in London concluded.
Russian President Vladimir Putin called on European Jews facing rising anti-Semitism to return to Russia.
The poisoners of Alexander Litvinenko made one major blunder when they used radioactive polonium to kill the former Russian intelligence agent. They chose to carry out their crime in London, the one city in the world with the doctors and medical infrastructure to reveal the cause of his death.
The mysterious death of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s former chief propagandist in Washington, DC, has taken a new turn Down Under, where his $50 million superyacht was discovered stranded in Brisbane.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin met at the UN climate conference in Paris Monday, where they reiterated the importance of military cooperation over Syria and other regional conflicts.
When Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama sat down for an informal talk in a public lobby at the G20 conference in Antalya, they could have guessed there would be prying ears. But they probably didn’t expect that the security breach would be quite so… unsubtle.
For a man who once shaped Russia’s media sector, remarkably little is known about the last months of Mikhail Lesin’s life.