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Vladimir Putin

The latest news, updates and features on Russian president Vladimir Putin. The former intelligence officer and politician held the role from 2000 to 2008, and again from 2012 onwards. He was previously Russia's prime minister, between 2008 to 2012.

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Play Video Gullible Russian teachers fell for an order from Vladimir Putin???s United Russia political party to make tinfoil ???Hero of the Fatherland??? hats to protect them from irradiation by NATO satellites - but it was a joke from prankster Vladislav Bokhan, who says it shows how people are so filled with propaganda that they believe any official instruction.

Russian teachers tricked into wearing tinfoil hats to protect against 'NATO satellites'

Channel: World World November 19, 2024 By Tom Sanders

How Vladimir Putin could exploit Trump as he hails 'courageous' win

Channel: World World February 20, 2025 By Josh Layton
Play Video Putin holding hands gif.

Putin awkwardly shakes North Korean minister's hand for exactly one minute

Channel: World World November 5, 2024 By Jasper King
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Secret files from the 90s reveal UK knew about huge nuclear war secret

Channel: UK UK November 3, 2024 By Josh Layton

Putin's bodyguards 'accidentally revealed where his £1,000,000,000 palace is on Strava'

Channel: World World October 31, 2024 By Oliver Jones
Play Video Russian president Vladimir Putin and a nuclear warhead behind him.

Putin gives rambling national TV address after ordering nuclear forces drills

Channel: World World October 29, 2024 By Katie Boyden

Putin MP's bizarre drive to wrap newborn babies in Russian flag

Channel: World World October 22, 2024 By Sarah Hooper

Russian businessman close to Putin mysteriously dies after falling from window

Channel: World World October 21, 2024 By Sarah Hooper
Career FSB secret services officer Konstantin Romodanovsky, 67, former director of Russia's Federal Migration Service, died on October 18, 2024, under ???very strange circumstances???, breaking his neck from a fall down the stairs at his country home, according to a report.

Putin’s ‘eyes and ears’ dies in ‘strange circumstances’ after breaking his neck

Channel: World World October 18, 2024 By Laura Brick

Putin suffers mystery itching 24 hours after Kremlin said he was in good health

Channel: World World October 18, 2024 By Sarah Hooper
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Ukraine Presidency/Planet Pix via ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock (14744768e) Former U.S President Donald Trump, right, responds to a question during an impromptu press conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, at Trump Tower, September 27, 2024 in New York City, New York. Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy Meet In New York, USA - 27 Sep 2024

Trump blames Zelensky instead of Putin for starting Russia's war on Ukraine

Channel: US US October 18, 2024 By Jessica Kwong
The Kremlin has been forced to deny Vladimir Putin, 72, has health issues after he said he undergoes ???all sorts of regular examinations??? at Moscow???s elite Central Clinical Hospital.

Kremlin denies Putin has health issues after he was seen at hospital

Channel: World World October 17, 2024 By Sarah Hooper
This picture taken on October 2, 2024 and released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) via KNS on October 4, 2024 shows North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un (C) posing with troops during an inspection at a training base of the Korean People's Army's special operations forces in the western region, at an undisclosed location in North Korea. North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un said his forces would use nuclear weapons "without hesitation" if Pyongyang's territory was attacked by the South and its ally the United States, state media reported on October 4. (Photo by KCNA VIA KNS / AFP) / South Korea OUT / REPUBLIC OF KOREA OUT ---EDITORS NOTE--- RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO/KCNA VIA KNS" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS / THIS PICTURE WAS MADE AVAILABLE BY A THIRD PARTY. AFP CAN NOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, LOCATION, DATE AND CONTENT OF THIS IMAGE --- / (Photo by STR/KCNA VIA KNS/AFP via Getty Images)

Why Putin has called up North Korean troops to the Ukrainian frontline

Channel: World World October 17, 2024 By Sarah Hooper
First 'animal sanctuary' to open in war-torn Ukraine only 30km from the frontline

'My wife was killed by Russia - now I'm risking my life to rescue pets in Ukraine'

Channel: World World October 14, 2024 By Josh Milton
Map reveals Russian attacks on the Black Sea

Map reveals Putin's plot to 'paralyse' vital Black Sea shipping route with missiles

Channel: World World October 11, 2024 By Gergana Krasteva
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Putin’s oil refinery explodes blasting 200ft tower of flames into the sky

Channel: World World October 11, 2024 By Sara Odeen-Isbister
FILE - President Donald Trump meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G-20 Summit in Hamburg, July 7, 2017. A Pew survey of democracies around the world finds that views of the U.S. as a model for democracy are slipping and confidence in Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee is on par with Russian President Vladmir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Donald Trump is Putin's 'source at the top' in US, ex-CIA chief says

Channel: US US October 10, 2024 By Jessica Kwong

Top Putin ally calls for Russia to 'sink damned island of Anglo-Saxon dogs'

Channel: World World October 7, 2024 By Sam Courtney-Guy
The Russian double of Leonardo DiCaprio, Roman Burtsev, 41, has been sent to the war in Ukraine after running short of work mimicking the American star.

Russian Leonardo DiCaprio lookalike sent to fight in war with Ukraine

Channel: World World October 7, 2024 By Laura Brick
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Putin's snipers are teaching schoolchildren 'killing Ukrainians is not murder'

Channel: World World October 5, 2024 By Laura Brick

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