Boris Yeltsin

In an interview with Al Jazeera, David Owen says that if elected, US presidential candidate Donald Trump would likely work to stop the war, which he predicts will end with Russia taking some of Ukraine's lands.

David Owen often describes the war in Ukraine as Russia's "second invasion", as a constant reminder of the 2014 Crimean conflict.

In the interview, Putin said, among other things, that he has no intention of attacking Poland, and that starting a global war is against common sense.
He added that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, after winning the presidential elections in 2019, should have "led Ukraine towards peace", but then he changed his decision.

Namely, as the British express.co.uk published as exclusive news, the overthrow of the Russian president from power is underway.

Russia is on the brink of its first debt default since 1998 as the Sunday deadline to make a $100 million interest payment seems certain to be missed.

Russia has the money and is willing to pay, but sanctions make it impossible to get the payments to international creditors.

"It was important for Yeltsin that Putin was of different generation because the country should not have been left to those who ruled it during the Soviet Union", former Kremlin Head of Administration Valentin Yumashev said during a public interview at the Yeltsin Presidential Center in Yekaterinburg.

The death toll is significantly higher than the official death toll. This is clear from the classified by the National Security Archive of the US report of the Chernobyl accident, RIA Novosti reports.

"The agreement on friendship, cooperation and partnership between Ukraine and Russia will be abolished on April 1, 2019," TASS is reporting, citing the proposal.

The agency said 277 deputies voted to support the decision that needed 226 votes to pass.

Independent - Roman Abramovich has apparently been caught up in a government crackdown on people applying for investor visas and the Chelsea Football Club owner is unable to enter Britain because his is yet to be renewed.

Vladimir Putin rolled to a crushing re-election victory Sunday for six more years as Russia's president, and he told cheering supporters in a triumphant but brief speech that "we are bound for success."

There had been no doubt that Putin would win in his fourth electoral contest; he faced seven minor candidates and his most prominent foe was blocked from the ballot.

Vladimir Putin awarded Ivica Dacic, Serbian foreign minister and the leader of the Socialist Party of Serbia, with the Order of Friendship, a state-awarded honour given to foreigners for their contribution to strengthening friendship and cooperation with Russia.