DIRS.INFO top alerts submit data jurnalism about API
login
Top related persons:
Top related locs:
Top related orgs:

Search resuls for: "Vladimir Putin —"


6 mentions found


☆ China wants Putin to stop threatening nuclear war over Ukraine, according to the White House
  + stars: | 2022-11-14 | by ( Mattathias Schwartz | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
President Biden of the US and Chairman Xi of China met for more than three hours on Monday morning. The two leaders opposed the use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine, as Russian President Vladimir Putin has threatened, according to the White House's account. Xi reportedly took the same position on Russia's nuclear threats during a meeting with the German chancellor earlier this month. China took a hard line against an independent Taiwan while the US criticized China for "coercive and increasingly aggressive actions." "I do not think there's any eminent attempt by the part of China to invade Taiwan," he said.
☆ 'Elon, The Everywhere' — Elon Musk is worrying government officials with his growing presence in global affairs, report says
  + stars: | 2022-10-23 | by ( Hannah Getahun | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Elon Musk's influence in global affairs has some officials worried, The Washington Post reported. Musk has kept in touch with foreign officials while staying away from Washington, per the Post. Musk has publicly met with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, and other foreign leaders, raising conflict of interest questions. Government officials have bolstered Musk's competitors in an effort to reduce their reliance on his businesses, the Post report said. The Post report notes, however, that there is still a large interest from the US government to work with Musk.
☆ Turkish President Erdoğan says he'll work with Putin to turn Turkey into a natural gas hub, and it marks the next step in Putin's attempts to keep selling Russian fuel to Europe
  + stars: | 2022-10-20 | by ( Huileng Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Ankara will work with Moscow to create a natural-gas hub in Turkey, Turkish President Erdoğan said. The development comes a week after Putin offered to redirect natural-gas supplies to Europe via Turkey — a proposal that caught Turkish officials by surprise. Thus it is early to make an assessment," Turkish Energy Minister Fatih Donmez said at the time, per Reuters. "We will create a hub here with Turkish gas coming from Russia," Erdoğan said, per Anadolu, referring to gas coming from Russia as "Turkish gas." This would create a new route for the transport of natural-gas to to Europe via Turkey, thus "creating the largest gas hub for Europe in Turkey," Putin said.
☆ Senior Russian lawmakers express concern over Putin's mobilization drive 'excesses'
  + stars: | 2022-09-25 | by ( Hyder Abbasi | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +5 min
Amid increasing public anger about Russia's mobilization drive, two of the country's most senior lawmakers ordered regional officials to solve the “excesses” that have stoked protests and seen flocks of military-age men attempt to flee. “Appeals are coming in,” Volodin, speaker of the Duma, Russia’s lower chamber of Parliament, said in a post Sunday. Russian State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin in St. Petersburg in April. It said hundreds of people had been detained by police across Russia for protesting against the mobilization and the war. The territory controlled by Russian or Russian-backed forces in the four regions represents about 15% of Ukrainian territory.
☆ Russian soldiers who desert their posts could face up to 10 years in jail under legislation that passed the lower house of parliament a day before Putin announced 'partial mobilization'
  + stars: | 2022-09-22 | by ( Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Russia's lower house of parliament approved a bill that toughens punishments for soldiers. The bill increases jail time for soldiers deserting their posts and adds a reference to "mobilization." The law was approved just a day before President Putin announced a "partial mobilization." The State Duma passed the bill on Tuesday that increases jail time for soldiers who desert their unit from five years to up to 10 years. The bill passed just a day before Putin announced plans for a "partial mobilization" of the country's military reserve forces, drafting about 300,000 reservists, according to The Washington Post.
☆ The wild life of Ksenia Sobchak, Putin's rumored god-daughter and former presidential candidate who dramatically fled Russia
  + stars: | 2018-03-18 | by ( Michal Kranz | Mia Jankowicz | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +1 min
TV host, actress, socialite , and former presidential candidate Ksenia Sobchak — who is rumored to be the goddaughter of President Vladimir Putin — has fled Russia for Lithuania. Her family ties with Putin go back to before she was born, when her father helped him enter national politics. And when she transformed herself from glamorous socialite and TV star to progressive politician, Putin made no attempt to stop her. "She has always got away with stuff, and it's always been understood that Putin's presidential administration made sure she didn't get into too much trouble," Dr Jade McGlynn, a Russia-focused researcher at the University of Oxford told Insider. Here's how Sobchak went from pop culture darling, to liberal opposition figure, to a fugitive of Putin's Russia.
<< prev 1 next >>
Total: 6