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Pak PM Sharif trolled after gatecrashing Putin-Erdogan meeting

Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif's attempt to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin backfired on Friday, as he ended up "gatecrashing" a meeting between Putin and Turkish President Recep...

Trump, Putin meet in Alaska along with aides

US President Donald Trump on Friday (local time) landed at the Elmendorf Air Base in Anchorage, Alaska, to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin, CNN reported. Putin has also arrived in Anchorage,...

Macho man Putin pumps iron. And he has competition

He is an action figure, quite literally. Recently, he set out on an adventure in a mini-submarine. Earlier, he has been photographed riding a horse bare-chested, hunting a tiger and flying a jet....

Vladimir Putin, 70

Vladimir Putin, who has ruled Russia since 2000, is 70 today, October 7. Glimpses from the life of Russia's current tsar: IMAGE: Putin and his then wife Lyudmila at the Taj Mahal, October...

Action Man Putin is back. This time in a mini-submarine

Another summer, another trip to the bottom of a sea for Russia’s adventure-loving president. Vladimir Putin climbed into a three-seat submersible craft on Tuesday to check out an ancient...

Russian cell phone users get free Facebook access

Facebook has launched a joint project with Russian mobile operators on free access to its website via cell phones, an official of the social networking company said. The Facebook Zero project was...

India ready to invest in Russia's pharma sector

India Inc is ready to invest in Russia's pharmaceutical sector and the two governments are working on a joint document to this effect, Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma has said. "They...

OVL denies buying Yukos core asset

ONGC Videsh, the foreign arm of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, has categorically denied its involvement in the embattled Yukos oil major auction last Sunday even as the experts and media remain...

41 die in Mittal mine fire in Kazakhstan

The death toll in Wednesday's blaze at the Mittal-owend Lenin coal mine in Kazakhstan has risen to 41 with one miner still missing."The bodies of 41 miners have been brought to the surface, and...

Russian tennis player shot twice in restaurant

Russian tennis player Andrei Chesnokov was shot twice on Sunday after a dispute in a Ukrainian restaurant turned violent, local media reported. Chesnokov, formerly the world's number nine men's...

Putin says Russia to probe doping allegations

IMAGE: Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting at the Bocharov Ruchei state residence in Sochi on Wednesday. Photograph: Aleksey Druzhinin/RIA Novosti/Kremlin/Reuters President Vladimir...

Belarus delegate banned for carrying Russian flag at Paralympics opening

IMAGE: The Russian flag is held up as athletes from Belarus take part in the opening ceremony of the 2016 Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro. Photograph: Sergio Moraes/Reuters A member of the Belarus...

Belarus delegate carries Russian flag during Rio opening ceremony

IMAGE: Athletes from Belarus take part in the opening ceremony. Photograph: Sergio Moraes/Reuters. The Belarus team carried Russia's flag as well as their own at the Paralympic Games opening...

Russian skier Komissarova 'seriously hurt' in training crash at Sochi Games

Russian skicross racer Maria Komissarova has been seriously hurt in training with doctors making an immediate decision to operate, the Russian Freestyle Federation said on Saturday.Komissarova...

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