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Seasoned Dutch politician Stef Blok was March 5 named the country’s new foreign minister, stepping in after his predecessor was caught lying about meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, seeking a new term in office in a March election, said on Thursday he would run as an independent candidate while hoping for support from more than one political party, according to Reuters. 

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Dec. 6 said he would seek a new six-year term in March elections, a move that would make him the longest-serving Russian leader since Joseph Stalin.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has told US filmmaker Oliver Stone that he was the target of several assassination attempts.

According to TASS, Stone said that he "heard of at least five assassination attempts on Putin," and continued:

MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet with Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic in Moscow on Monday, March 27, the Kremlin has announced.

"A meeting will take place," Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the Russian RIA Novosti agency.

Tanjug file photo, S. Ilic

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has described as "beautiful" a message of congratulations he received from President Vladimir Putin, TASS is reporting.

Asked to comment on this, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said it was "a message of greeting sent on the day the election results were made public."

Russia has key interests in common with the United States and needs to work with it on a common agenda, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on April 18 in a television interview.

Putin "mulling withdrawal after 2018 - or bluffing"

KAZAN -- Russian President Vladimir Putin has hinted at the possibility that "someone else might be in that office in 2019."

President Vladimir Putin sharply ramped up his anti-Western rhetoric on Jan. 26, accusing the Ukrainian army of being "NATO's foreign legion" whose main purpose was to contain Russia.