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Putin’s top Russian parliament foe faces expulsion
One of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most vocal and influential parliamentary critics said Saturday that prosecutors had asked lawmakers to expel him so that he could be charged with business crimes. Gennady Gudkov of the leftist A Just Russia party said he had received a copy of a letter the…
Female bomber kills seven as Putin urges calm
MOSCOW — A female suicide bomber posing as a Muslim pilgrim killed a leading Islamic scholar and at least five others on Tuesday in Russia’s restive Muslim region of Dagestan. The attack was reported just as President Vladimir Putin began delivering a keynote address devoted to an assassination attempt last…
Ukraine extradites suspect in Putin murder plot
Ukraine on Saturday extradited one of the men suspected of plotting to assassinate President Vladimir Putin, state-owned Channel One reported. Ilya Pyanzin, who was arrested in Odessa in February, had already been taken to Moscow, the channel said, showing him at Odessa airport and then aboard a plane in handcuffs.…
Pussy Riot releases new single after being sentenced
Pussy Riot will not go to jail quietly. Hours after being sentenced to two years in prison for hooliganism, the Russian punk band released a new single, “Putin Lights The Fires,” which has intensified the international criticism of both the verdict and Russian President Vladimir Putin. And, perhaps most importantly…
Putin, Cameron to discuss Syria before Olympic judo
Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister David Cameron will discuss Syria on Thursday when the Russian president makes his first visit to Britain in seven years, before watching the judo at the Olympics. The two leaders will hold talks at Downing Street on the Syrian crisis as well as their rocky…
Prosecuted Russian punk band Pussy Riot says ‘Putin is scared of us’
Pussy Riot, the feminist punk rock band three of whose members are being prosecuted by the Russian authorities for singing an anti-Putin song in a Moscow cathedral, have told the Observer they refused to be intimidated by the government’s “brutality and cruelness” because they “had done nothing wrong”. Giving their…
Russian flooding disaster increases distrust of Putin
The devastating floods that claimed at least 171 lives two months into President Vladimir Putin’s third Kremlin term is expected to draw new attention to his handling of man-made and natural disasters. Putin’s 12-year reign of Russia as prime minister, president, prime minister and now president again has been dogged…
Obama, Putin discuss Syria differences
LOS CABOS, Mexico — Presidents Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin said Monday that Syrians must be free to choose their future, but there was little sign they eased differences on ending the brutal violence. The two presidents, in a closely watched first meeting since Putin returned to the Kremlin, did…
Artists lead thousands against Putin in Moscow
Dozens of Russian artists with brooms in hand carted their most expressive works across the boulevards of Moscow on Saturday in a show of exasperation at Vladimir Putin’s return to a third Kremlin term. Several thousand Muscovites joined them in a second such intellectual walk in a week. More than 10,000 had supported…
Putin to skip G8 summit in US next week
WASHINGTON — Russia’s President Vladimir Putin will skip the G8 summit and ice breaker talks with President Barack Obama next week, the White House said, raising new questions about Moscow-Washington ties. Putin had been expected at the summit at Camp David and to hold talks with the US leader in…
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