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Friday, April 26, 2024
TopicVladimir Putin

Topic: Vladimir Putin

Modi congratulates Putin on win, ‘expresses support for Ukraine’s sovereignty’ in call with Zelenskyy

India and China are two countries that have sent warm messages to Putin after his fifth reelection. Western governments have condemned the polls as a ‘undemocratic’.

Putin wins ‘presidential election,’ becomes Russia’s longest-serving leader

Voting took place in Crimea and 4 other Ukrainian regions partly controlled by Russia. Kyiv regards elections on occupied territory as illegal and void.

‘Putin a gangster’: Navalny widow urges West not to recognise results of Russian presidential election

In sharply worded Washington Post op-ed, Yulia Navalnaya called for more sanctions on Putin’s allies and associates, urged Western countries to support resistance forces in Russia.

‘Russia ready for nuclear war’: Vladimir Putin warns the West

The Russian President said the US understood that if it deployed American troops on Russian territory – or to Ukraine – Russia would treat the move as an intervention.

Post CNN report, Ukraine diplomat says Modi statement on nukes helped, Russia slams US ‘propaganda’

Indian officials remain tight-lipped about report, but say that New Delhi’s stance on Russia-Ukraine conflict has been made abundantly clear in official statements & remarks by PM.

‘Impossible to defend against’ — what is Zircon hypersonic missile that Putin says Russia used in battle

Russia claims missile can reach eight times the speed of sound. If true, it would be the ‘fastest missile in the world’, could evade the advanced US Patriot air defence system.

Putin’s neo-Gulags are tools of political terror. Navalny death reveals Russia’s tyrannical past

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died in an Arctic Circle prison that earlier housed prisoners of 301st Gulag, who were condemned to work on Joseph Stalin’s doomed effort to build a railway line through northern Siberia.

‘Will continue my husband’s fight against Putin,’ says Alexei Navalny’s wife Yulia Navalny

In a nine-minute video message laced with rage, Yulia Navalny, accused Putin of killing her husband and said he had robbed their two children of a father.

Russian opposition leader & Putin critic Alexei Navalny has died, claims prison service

The Federal Penitentiary Service of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District said in a statement that Navalny ‘felt unwell’ after a walk at the IK-3 penal colony in Kharp.

On Camera

BJP has a problem of plenty in Phase 2. It can only go down from that

BJP’s fate in the second phase of 2024 Lok Sabha election will be decided in Karnataka, Rajasthan, and Maharashtra, where it performed very well in 2019 but faces a stiff competition now.

Kotak Mahindra Bank shares drop 10% after RBI bans it from taking new customers via digital channels

The private lender's shares tumbled to be top Nifty 50 loser after India's central bank barred it from taking on new customers through online and mobile banking channels.

Rafale to Exercise Garuda, a look at Indo-French defence ties as Chief of Defence Staff visits France

Another addition to military cooperation has been the Strategic Space Dialogue, inaugurated in Paris in 2023. Last month, India participated as an observer to France’s AsterX.

These 6 states are key for Modi’s ‘400 paar’ target. They’re also where Opposition can stop him

While this contest looks so predictable in large swathes of our political landscape, it is also more keenly contested than 2019 in some states.