Vladimir Putin News
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Updated 18 minutes ago
VTB Group, Russia’s second-largest state bank, is calling on policy makers to lower interest rates to help spur credit just as Bank Rossii reiterates its commitment to refrain from monetary easing.
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Updated 22 minutes ago
Gerard Depardieu, the French actor just awarded Russian citizenship, praised his “special relationship” with Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov as he started filming a movie in the mainly Muslim Russian region.
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Russian industrial production probably grew more slowly in April than in the previous month as a stalling local economy and weakening exports hurt demand.
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Russia’s central bank is holding back from easing monetary policy to counter a deepening economic slowdown as weak institutions remain a major drag on growth, according to First Deputy Chairman Alexey Ulyukayev.
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Russia’s security forces thwarted a planned terror attack in Moscow by striking against a group of three suspected militants near the country’s capital, according to the National Anti-Terrorist Committee.
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The Levada Center, a Russian independent pollster, may be forced to close after prosecutors said it may be violating President Vladimir Putin’s law on foreign agents, said Lev Gudkov, head of the researcher.
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Russia breached the arcane etiquette of international espionage when it publicly identified a U.S. diplomat in Moscow as a CIA station chief.
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The top U.S. general said Russian deliveries of advanced anti-ship missiles and air-defense systems to Syria risk leading Bashar al-Assad’s regime to miscalculate its military power.
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Russia’s economy grew at the weakest pace since 2009 in the first quarter as the euro area’s longest recession hurt demand for commodity exports and investment at companies including OAO Gazprom cooled.
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Updated 1 hour, 17 minutes ago
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s changing attitude toward two giant government-led high-tech projects sends a troubling message about his third term in office: Maintaining power is more important than modernizing the economy.
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