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☆ Putin scores a resounding win, but what’s next for Russia?
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-17 | by ( Nathan Hodge | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +17 min

Sovfoto/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Putin poses for a picture with his wife, Lyudmila, and daughters, Yekaterina and Maria. Brooks Kraft LLC/Corbis via Getty Images Putin rides a horse during a vacation in Southern Siberia in August 2009. Dmitry Astakhov/RIA Novosti/AFP via Getty Images Putin plays with his dogs Yume, left, and Buffy at his home in Novo-Ogaryovo, Russia, in March 2013. Chris McGrath/Getty Images Putin and Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attend the G20 summit in Buenos Aires in November 2018. Getty Images Putin speaks with American right-wing pundit Tucker Carlson during an interview in February 2024.

Persons: Vladimir Putin, Putin, ”, Dmitry Kiselyov, Mikhail Mishustin, Ukraine –, Kiselyov, “, Maria Putina, Archivio GBB, ZUMA Press Wire Putin, Laski, Maria, Vladimir, Anatoly Sobchak, Lyudmila, Yekaterina, Boris Yeltsin, Yeltsin, Fidel Castro, Reuters Putin, George W, Bush, Stephen Jaffe, Camp David, Brooks Kraft, Alexey Druzhinin, Alexey Nikolsky, Mikhail Metzel, Ivan Sekretarev, AP Putin, Dmitry Medvedev, Dmitry Astakhov, Buffy, Angela Merkel, Jochen Lübke, Thomas Bach, Medvedev, Vladimir Konstantinov, Alexei Chalyi, Sergei Aksyonov, Sergei Ilnitsky, Kirill Kudryavtsev, Alexander Lukashenko, Merkel, Francois Hollande, Petro Poroshenko, Mykola Lazarenko, Barack Obama, Ban, Chip Somodevilla, Turkey Andrei Karlov, Karlov, Donald Trump, Chris McGrath, Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, LUDOVIC MARIN, Emmanuel Macron, Volodymyr Zelensky, Eliot Blondet, Joe Biden, Antony Blinken, Biden, Sergey Lavrov, Denis Balibouse, Macron, Sergey Ponomarev, Mikhail Gorbachev, —, Alexander Nemenov, Alexey Danichev, Xi Jinping, Pavel Byrkin, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Wagner, Prigozhin, Pavel Bednyakov, Kim Jong Un, Kim, Tucker Carlson, Zuma Press Putin, Maxim Shemetov, – what’s, Alexey Navalny, Navalny, ” Putin Organizations: CNN, coy, Kremlin, Getty, Russian, ZUMA Press, Putin, KGB, ZUMA Press Wire, Getty Images, Reuters, US, White House, Camp, Brooks, Brooks Kraft LLC, RIA Novosti, AP, AFP, International Olympic, Crimean, Ukrainian, United Nations, UN, Assembly, Russian Foreign Ministry, Sputnik, World, Saudi Arabia's Crown, Macron, SPUTNIK, New York Times, Central Clinical Hospital, AP Putin, Belarus, State Russian Museum, AP North Korean, Vostochny, Tucker Carlson Network, Zuma Press Locations: Russia, Ukraine, Putin Russia, Russian, Bakhmut, St . Petersburg, Leningrad, Germany, Moscow, AFP, Kazan, Cuba, Soviet Union, Southern Siberia, Russia's Tver, Novo, Ogaryovo, Hanover, Sevastopol, Crimea, Belarusian, Minsk, Belarus, France, Turkey, Helsinki, Finland, Buenos Aires, Ukrainian, Paris, Geneva, Switzerland, Taganrog, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Tsiolkovsky, Russia's, North Korea, United States

☆ Ukraine needs weapons urgently, rather than Western ground troops, Petro Poroshenko says
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-28 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailUkraine needs weapons urgently, rather than Western ground troops, Petro Poroshenko saysUkraine's former President Petro Poroshenko talks to CNBC about Ukraine's urgent need for more military equipment, and called on the U.S. to demonstrate its leadership.

Persons: Petro Poroshenko Organizations: Ukraine, CNBC

☆ Ukraine's security service alleges Russian plot involving ex-president
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-02 | by ( Max Hunder | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Poroshenko's political party, European Solidarity, said the former president had scheduled only meetings in Poland and the United States and warned the SBU security service against becoming involved in politics. Orban has frequently been at odds with Zelenskiy on several issues related to Ukraine's EU membership bid. European Solidarity, in its statement, called for dialogue with Orban who, it said, had a veto right over accession talks. Poroshenko, president from 2014 to 2019, accused Zelenskiy's administration on Friday of cancelling the permission and playing politics ahead of elections. Additional reporting by Boldizsar Gyori in Budapest, Editing by Ron Popeski and Daniel WallisOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Petro Poroshenko, Gleb Garanich, Poroshenko, SBU, Viktor Orban, Vladimir Putin, Orban, Putin, Oleksandr Korniyenko, Poroshenko's, Zelenskiy's, Zelenskiy, Boldizsar Gyori, Ron Popeski, Daniel Wallis Organizations: REUTERS, Rights, European, Hungarian, European Union, Ukraine, EU, European Solidarity, Thomson Locations: Ukraine, Kyiv, Russia, European Solidarity, Poland, United States, Moscow, Budapest

☆ Ukraine's ex-president says he was blocked from leaving country
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-01 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

REUTERS/Gleb Garanich/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsKYIV, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Ukraine's ex-President Petro Poroshenko said he had been stopped from leaving the country on Friday morning in what he described as a politically motivated bid to disrupt his work. The Ukrainian parliament's deputy speaker, Oleksandr Korniyenko, later confirmed he had cancelled Poroshenko's permission to leave the country. Poroshenko said he had planned to travel to Poland to help negotiate an end to a truckers' blockade and then to the United States to build support for Ukraine's war effort. "This is an anti-Ukrainian diversion," Poroshenko wrote. "It is not just the hampering of my entire team's diplomatic work, but unfortunately a blow to Ukraine's defence capabilities."

Persons: Petro Poroshenko, Gleb Garanich, Poroshenko, Oleksandr Korniyenko, Korniyenko, Volodymyr Zelenskiy's, Zelenskiy, Reportig, Dan Peleschuk, Max Hunder, Andrew Heavens Organizations: REUTERS, Rights, Solidarity, Thomson Locations: Ukraine, Kyiv, Poland, Ukrainian, Russian, United States

☆ US attorney who initially vetted Biden bribery tip explains why it deserved further scrutiny
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-27 | by ( Marshall Cohen | Annie Grayer | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

His testimony sheds new light on how his office vetted the tip, and he disputed past Democratic claims that he “closed” the matter without recommending any further scrutiny. However, it doesn’t bolster the GOP narrative that Joe Biden or his son Hunter Biden were offered or accepted a bribe. The informant described his interactions with Mykola Zlochevsky, a Ukrainian oligarch and owner of the energy company Burisma, where Hunter Biden had served on the board. The saga of a once-trusted FBI informant bringing explosive but unverified claims about a presidential candidate is reminiscent of the Christopher Steele debacle in 2016. This time, the political roles are reversed: Republicans are championing the unproven bribery claims, as Democrats try to discredit the material.

Persons: Hunter, Scott Brady, Brady, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, Rudy Giuliani, The uncorroborated Biden, ”, Mykola Zlochevsky, Zlochevsky, “, ” Brady, Biden, David Weiss, Weiss ’, Lev Parnas, Petro Poroshenko, Hunter Biden’s, Jamie Raskin, Brady “, ” Raskin, “ Raskin, “ That’s, Weiss, Raskin, “ Mr, Brady’s, James Comer, Comer, Christopher Steele, Steele’s, Trump, he’s Organizations: CNN, Hunter Biden, House Republicans, Biden, Justice Department, Democratic, Trump, FBI, CHS, Giuliani, Ukrainian, White, Democrats, Maryland, Western, Western District of Pennsylvania, Kremlin Locations: Ukraine, Ukrainian, Delaware, Pittsburgh, Western District, America, Russia

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting with the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) in San Francisco, California, U.S., September 27, 2023. Separately, they also allege the Justice Department interfered with a tax investigation of Hunter Biden. House Republicans have said they plan to seek personal and business bank records for Hunter Biden and James Biden, the president's brother. A prolonged shutdown could slow the impeachment inquiry as fewer administration officials would be available to respond to information requests. White House spokesman Ian Sams said House Republicans were prioritizing "conspiracy theories" over keeping the government open.

Persons: Joe Biden, Evelyn Hockstein, Hunter Biden, James Comer, Biden, Barack Obama's, Republican Donald Trump, Burisma, Petro Poroshenko, James Biden, Hunter, Joe Biden's, Ian Sams, Trump, Makini Brice, Andy Sullivan, Alistair Bell Organizations: President's, Advisors, Science, Technology, REUTERS, Rights, Republican, House, Democratic, U.S . Justice Department, Republicans, Senate, Fox News Channel, Former, Thomson Locations: San Francisco , California, U.S, Ukraine, Delaware

☆ What’s the basis of the Republicans’ Joe Biden impeachment inquiry?
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

The White House says Biden has done nothing wrong and Republicans have no basis for an impeachment inquiry. Another Hunter Biden associate, Eric Schwerin, also told the panel that he was not aware of any financial involvement by Joe Biden in his relatives' businesses. A Washington Post fact check found that $7 million of that money went to Biden family members, most of it to Hunter, and none went to Joe Biden. PRESSURING UKRAINE'S PROSECUTORWhile serving as vice president, Biden pressured Ukraine to remove its top prosecutor, Viktor Shokin. Republicans and Shokin have separately said Biden was trying to protect Burisma and Hunter Biden from a possible corruption investigation.

Persons: Joe Biden, Evelyn, Hunter, Biden, Devon Archer, Hunter Biden, Archer, Jamie Raskin, Burisma, Mykola Zlochevsky, Eric Schwerin, Viktor Shokin, Shokin, Barack Obama's, Petro Poroshenko, David Weiss, Weiss, General Merrick Garland, Andy Sullivan, Makini Brice, Scott Malone, Alistair Bell, Rosalba O'Brien Organizations: World Trade, Joint Base Elmendorf, REUTERS, U.S . House, Democratic, Republicans, FBI, Washington Post, European Union, International Monetary Foundation, House Democrats, Burisma, Fox News Channel, IRS, Justice Department, Trump, U.S, Thomson Locations: Richardson, Anchorage , Alaska, U.S, Ukrainian, Ukraine

☆ Ukraine arrested the oligarch who owns the TV station that aired Volodymyr Zelenskyy's show before he became president
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-03 | by ( Ryan Hogg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Ukraine has detained Ihor Kolomoisky, a prominent oligarch, as part of an anti-corruption drive. Kolomoisky owns the TV station that showed Volodymyr Zelenskyy's "Servant of the People." The country's security service said on its Telegram channel that oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky would be held in custody for two months on fraud and money laundering charges. AdvertisementAdvertisementUkrainian oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky appeared in court on Saturday. Kolomoisky owns the TV station 1+1 that broadcast "Servant of the People," in which Zelenskyy played a comedian who becomes president.

Persons: Ihor Kolomoisky, Kolomoisky, Volodymyr Zelenskyy's, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Forbes, Vladyslav Musiienko, Reuters Zelensky, Zelenskyy, they'd, oligarch, Petro Poroshenko Organizations: Reuters, BBC News, Kyiv International Institute of Sociology Locations: Ukraine, Russia, Kolomoisky

☆ Russia pulls back from brink of crisis after deal reached to end Wagner insurrection
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-25 | by ( Jessie Yeung | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +17 min

Sovfoto/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Putin poses for a picture with his wife, Lyudmila, and daughters, Yekaterina and Maria. Brooks Kraft LLC/Corbis via Getty Images Putin rides a horse during a vacation in Southern Siberia in August 2009. Alexey Nikolsky/AFP via Getty Images Putin judges an arm wrestling match while visiting the Seliger youth educational forum in Russia's Tver region in August 2011. Dmitry Astakhov/RIA Novosti/AFP via Getty Images Putin plays with his dogs Yume, left, and Buffy at his home in Novo-Ogaryovo, Russia, in March 2013. Chris McGrath/Getty Images Putin and Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attend the G20 summit in Buenos Aires in November 2018.

Persons: Vladimir Putin’s, Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, ” Prigozhin, ” Wagner, ”, Dmitry Peskov, “, Prigozhin, ” Peskov, Putin, Putin Putin, Joseph Stalin, –, “ Putin, Evelyn Farkas, ’, Vladimir Putin, Maria Putina, Archivio GBB, ZUMA Press Wire Putin, Laski, Maria, Vladimir, Anatoly Sobchak, Lyudmila, Yekaterina, Boris Yeltsin, Yeltsin, Fidel Castro, Reuters Putin, George W, Bush, Stephen Jaffe, Camp David, Brooks Kraft, Alexey Druzhinin, Alexey Nikolsky, Mikhail Metzel, Ivan Sekretarev, AP Putin, Dmitry Medvedev, Dmitry Astakhov, Buffy, Angela Merkel, Jochen Lübke, Thomas Bach, Medvedev, Vladimir Konstantinov, Alexei Chalyi, Sergei Aksyonov, Sergei Ilnitsky, Kirill Kudryavtsev, Alexander Lukashenko, Merkel, Francois Hollande, Petro Poroshenko, Mykola Lazarenko, Barack Obama, Ban, Chip Somodevilla, Turkey Andrei Karlov, Karlov, Donald Trump, Chris McGrath, Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, LUDOVIC MARIN, Emmanuel Macron, Volodymyr Zelensky, Eliot Blondet, Joe Biden, Antony Blinken, Biden, Sergey Lavrov, Denis Balibouse, Macron, Sergey Ponomarev, Mikhail Gorbachev, —, Alexander Nemenov, Alexey Danichev, Xi Jinping, Pavel Byrkin, Pavel Bednyakov, Peter Zwack, Beth Sanner, ” Sanner, “ He’s, … Putin, Moscow’s, Priogozhin Organizations: CNN, Kremlin, Communist, McCain, Putin, Getty, Russian, ZUMA Press, KGB, ZUMA Press Wire, Getty Images, Reuters, US, White House, Camp, Brooks, Brooks Kraft LLC, RIA Novosti, AP, AFP, International Olympic, Crimean, Ukrainian, United Nations, UN, Assembly, Russian Foreign Ministry, Sputnik, World, Saudi Arabia's Crown, Macron, SPUTNIK, New York Times, Central Clinical Hospital, AP Putin, Belarus, State Russian Museum, Russia’s Southern Military District, US Army, National Intelligence for Mission, State Department, European Union Locations: Moscow, Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, Kremlin, Russia’s Belgorod, Putin Russian, Russian, Rostov, St . Petersburg, Leningrad, Germany, AFP, Kazan, Cuba, Soviet Union, Southern Siberia, Russia's Tver, Novo, Ogaryovo, Hanover, Sevastopol, Crimea, Belarusian, Minsk, France, Turkey, Helsinki, Finland, Buenos Aires, Ukrainian, Paris, Geneva, Switzerland, Taganrog, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, –, Canada, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom, Soviet, Kazakhstan

☆ Fed Chair Jerome Powell got tricked by 2 Russian prank callers posing as Ukrainian President Zelenskyy
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Morgan Chittum | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Fed Chair Powell held a call with Russian pranksters pretending to be Ukrainian President Zelenskyy. "No sensitive or confidential information was discussed," a Fed spokesperson told Insider. Footage circulating on Russian State Television showed Powell answering an interviewer's questions, with the central bank head seemingly thinking he was speaking to Ukraine's leader. In a statement sent to Insider, a Fed spokesperson confirmed that Powell participated in a call with someone "who misrepresented himself" as the Ukrainian president in January. The phone call, which appears to have been carried out by Vladimir Kuznetsov and Alexei Stolyarov, covered a range of topics like Powell's inflation outlook and Russia's central bank, Bloomberg reported Thursday.

☆ A year into war, Ukraine's Zelenskiy defies Putin against the odds
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-15 | by ( Tom Balmforth | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +7 min

[1/4] Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy sings the national anthem during his visit in Kherson, Ukraine November 14, 2022. Nor does Russian President Vladimir Putin, who launched his "special military operation" in Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022 and appears to be preparing for a long war. They underestimated his leadership qualities," said Volodymyr Fesenko, a Kyiv-based analyst who said Putin misjudged Zelenskiy. "(Putin) prepared a special operation not a full-fledged war ... because he thought Zelenskiy and the Ukrainian army were weak and that they would not be able to put up lengthy resistance. Anton Grushetsky, deputy director of the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology, put public trust in Zelenskiy at 70% to 80%.

☆ How Ukraine's Zelenskyy went from comedian to wartime hero
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-26 | by ( Holly Ellyatt | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kherson, Ukraine, on Nov. 14, 2022. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the cover of Time Magazine's 2022 "Person of the Year" edition. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy Zelenskyy enjoys high approval ratings among Ukrainians for rallying both the country's forces and public on a daily basis. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visits Kherson, Ukraine, on Nov. 14, 2022. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kherson, Ukraine, on Nov. 14, 2022.

REUTERS/Maria Alejandra CardonaNEW YORK, Nov 14 (Reuters) - No charges will be brought in a criminal investigation into business dealings in Ukraine by Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump's former personal lawyer, the top U.S. prosecutor in Manhattan said in a court filing on Monday. In a sign that the investigation was winding down, FBI agents returned the seized electronic devices to Giuliani, his lawyer said in August. Giuliani, 78, also faces a state-level criminal investigation in Georgia over efforts by Trump and his allies to overturn his 2020 election loss to Biden. Giuliani in 2020 urged the state's lawmakers not to certify Biden's victory in Georgia. In August, Giuliani testified before a Fulton County grand jury after a judge ordered him to comply with a subpoena.

☆ The real Volodymyr Zelenskyy. His US film editor reveals the man behind the scenes.
▼ + stars: | 2022-03-05 | by ( Joshua Zitser | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has become an international icon amid the Russian invasion of his country. David Dodson, left, and Volodymyr Zelenskyy, right, in Lviv, Ukraine. Maya_MaksimovaDavid Dodson, an American film editor, first met Volodymyr Zelenskyy in New York in 2008. And for Dodson, it was the start of a decadelong working relationship with the future Ukrainian president. David Dodson and Volodymyr Zelenskyy during a rehearsal in Kyiv, Ukraine.

☆ VIDEO/ GPS trackere, notă diplomatică, vin moldovenesc și o „întâlnire prietenească”. Noi detalii în cazul răpirii ex-judecătorului ucrainean Nicolae Ceaus
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-22 | by ( ) www.zdg.md time to read: +7 min

În 2016, Chaus a fost cercetat penal în Ucraina sub acuzații de luare de mită în sumă de 150.000 de dolari. Având în acel moment imunitate judiciară, el nu a fost reținut și a fugit din Ucraina. Conform noilor documente consultate de Slidstvo.Info și RISE Moldova, Yuri Kovalenko a sosit în Moldova la mijlocul lunii martie. Mașina ambasadoruluiMykola Chaus a fost răpit la prânz, pe 3 aprilie, fiind transportat inițial cu un Ford alb, vechi. Jurnaliștii l-au contactat, dar imediat ce bărbatul a aflat despre răpirea lui Chaus, a închis telefonul.

Persons: Chaus, Judecătorul, Petro Poroshenko, Yuri Kovalenko, Kovalenko, Andriy Kutsenko, Serghei Smetanyuk, Serhiy, Slidstvo.Info Organizations: Moldova, Ministerul Apărării, Hyundai, Ford, Mercedes, Ministerului Apărării, Ministerul, Externe, Integrării Europene, Toyota Locations: Moldova, ucrainean, Chișinău, Ucraina, Ucrainei, Otaci, Republicii Moldova, n.r, Republica Moldova

☆ Jurnalist-investigator RISE: „Răpirea oamenilor este o practică multianuală în Moldova”
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-14 | by ( ) www.ipn.md time to read: +3 min

Jurnalist-investigator RISE: „Răpirea oamenilor este o practică multianuală în Moldova”Miercuri, 14 aprilie, reprezentanții organelor de drept din Moldova sunt așteptați în Parlament la ședința Comisiei pentru securitate națională, apărare și ordine publică cu rapoarte privind circumstanțele răpirii ex-magistratului ucrainean Nikolai Ceaus în data de 3 aprilie, transmite IPN cu referință la serviciul de presă al Parlamentului. Conform agendei de lucru a Comisiei, sunt convocați raportori din Serviciul de informație și securitate (SIS), MAI și Procuratura generală a Moldovei. Vladimir este un jurnalist RISE Moldova, coautor în cadrul unei serii de investigații jurnalistice internaționale privind influența serviciilor speciale străine asupra politicienilor din Moldova. Jurnalistul RISE a stăruit că „răpirea oamenilor este o practică multianuală în Moldova”. „Am relatat câțiva ani în urmă cum din Chișinău și din alte orașe ale republicii an de an sunt răpiți și transportați în regiunea transnistreană cetățeni ai Moldovei.

Persons: Nikolai Ceaus, Ceaus, Ucrainei Petro Poroshenko, moldovean Vlad Plahotniuc, Vladimir Thorik, Alexandru Organizations: Internațional, TV8, Слдство.инфо Locations: Moldova, Miercuri, Procuratura, Moldovei, Chișinău, Vladimir, Kyiv, Ucrainei, moldovean, Internațional Chișinău

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