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  PM Modi congratulates Putin for securing next term as Russian President: 'Strengthen time-tested...'

  World | March 18, 2024 18:44 IST

  Putin sealed his control over Russia for six more years on Monday with a highly orchestrated landslide in an election that followed the harshest crackdown on the opposition and free speech since Soviet times.

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  Putin thanks Russia after predictable landslide win in elections, warns of 'World War III'

  World | March 18, 2024 8:22 IST

  Partial results showed Putin winning 87 per cent of the votes in a contest without any serious opposition, extending his rule by six years surpassing that of Joseph Stalin. Other countries said the vote was neither free nor fair due to the imprisonment of political opponents and censorship.

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  'Don't interfere in internal matter, else will be expelled': Russia's stern message to US ambassador

  World | March 07, 2024 17:47 IST

  The foreign ministry said in a statement it would look out for what it called "subversive actions and the spread of information" related to the election and what the Kremlin calls its special military operation in Ukraine.

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  'Alexei Navalny was killed because he was about to be freed in a prisoner exchange', claims his ally

  World | February 26, 2024 17:19 IST

  Pevchikh did not name the two US nationals in contention to be swapped along with Navalny. But the United States has said it is trying to return Evan Gershkovich, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal and Paul Whelan, a former US Marine.

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  'Make no mistake, Russian President Putin is responsible for Alexi Navalny's death': Biden I WATCH

  World | February 17, 2024 7:31 IST

  The stunning news — less than a month before an election that will give Putin another six years in power — brought renewed criticism and outrage directed at the Kremlin leader who has cracked down on all opposition at home.

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  Russia elections: Putin all set for another term as his anti-war rival banned from contesting

  World | February 08, 2024 18:00 IST

  A fierce critic of Putin's war policies, Boris Nadezhdin said the Russian president had made a “fatal mistake by starting the special military operation” in Ukraine. His campaign garnered attention, but was expected to falter as another anti-war candidate was disqualified from the elections earlier.

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  Putin does not want any contender as Russian election body likely to reject his rival's candidature

  World | February 05, 2024 16:24 IST

  Nadezhdin last week presented the electoral commission with signatures from more than 1,00,000 supporters but the commission said its initial analysis of the signatures showed some of those listed as Nadezhdin supporters were dead people.

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  Ukraine's strikes on Russia ere polls hurting Putin’s efforts to show war isn’t hitting home: Expert

  World | January 30, 2024 17:15 IST

  Attacks led by the Ukraine army are dealing a heavy blow to President Vladimir Putin’s attempts to reassure Russians that life in the country is largely untouched by the nearly 2-year-old war.

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  Russia's jailed opposition leader Navalny disappears mysteriously ahead of Presidential elections

  World | December 11, 2023 19:10 IST

  His lawyers said that for three days in a row, Navalny’s lawyers spent hours at the penal colony waiting for permission to visit him, only to be turned away at the last minute. Letters to the politician were not being delivered, and he didn’t appear at scheduled court hearings via video link.

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  Putin Formally Nominated For President

  World | November 27, 2011 18:00 IST

  Moscow, November 27: Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has been formally nominated by the ruling United Russia party to run for President in next March's election.Mr. Putin, who stepped down in 2008 after two Presidential terms