AS Vladimir Putin celebrates 25 years of rule over Russia, his first speech as president resurfaced showing a slew of broken promises and the emergence of a very different leader. A quarter of a ...
DW looks at how EU, US and NATO relations with Putin's Russia have evolved.In August 1999, Vladimir Putin was appointed the prime minister of the Russian Federation. When he took office, Putin ...
President Vladimir Putin praised his country's achievements in a New Year's Eve speech Tuesday, saying Russians should be "proud" of what Russia had done during his quarter century in power.
President Vladimir Putin has said in a New Year address that ... The televised New Year’s Eve speech, which continues a tradition started by Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, is a holiday staple ...
In a speech to Germany's parliament ... positions in Russian state-run energy companies. At the Munich Security Conference in 2006, Putin notably changed his diplomatic approach.
Intigam Mamedov, an Eastern Europe expert and researcher at Northumbria University, points in another telephone conversation to Putin’s speech at the 2007 Munich Security Conference, when he said a ...
Much of his short speech was characterized by omissions. While Mr. Putin on Tuesday honored the country’s “fighters and commanders,” he invoked Russians’ pride in defeating Nazism and ...