US says taking Putin’s ‘irresponsible’ nuclear threat ‘seriously’
The United States is taking Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “irresponsible” veiled threat to use nuclear weapons “seriously,” a senior US official said Wednesday.
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Don’t. Don’t’: Biden to Putin on nuclear weapons in Ukraine
Biden was responding to an interviewer’s question about the possibility of Putin, whose army is incurring heavy losses in the Ukraine counteroffensive this month, resorting to chemical or tactical nuclear weapons.
Putin condemns ‘attempts to create unipolar world’ in talks with Xi
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday blasted attempts to create a “unipolar world” and praised China’s “balanced” approach to Ukraine, as he met Chinese President Xi Jinping in Uzbekistan.
Xi says China willing to work with Russia on ‘core interests’
China’s President Xi Jinping told his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin that Beijing was willing to work with Moscow to support each other’s “core interests”, state media reported Thursday, as the two leaders met at a summit in Uzbekistan.
Putin, Xi meet for high-stakes talks in challenge to West
Russia’s Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi Jinping gather with other Asian leaders in the ancient Silk Road city of Samarkand from Thursday for a regional summit touted as a challenge to Western global influence.
China and Russia building ‘more just’ world order: Beijing
China is willing to shape the international order together with Russia in a “more just and rational direction”, a senior Chinese diplomat said as the two countries’ leaders prepare to meet this week.
Putin says ‘peak’ of sanctions impact has passed
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that Russia has passed the “peak” of economic difficulties from Western sanctions imposed over Ukraine.
With key pipeline shut, Putin denies weaponising energy
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday denied that Moscow was using its energy exports as a “weapon” after Russia halted natural gas deliveries via a key pipeline to Europe.
Nobel prize for Russia’s Muratov was ‘political’: Putin
President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday questioned the decision to award a Nobel Peace Prize to Russia’s Dmitry Muratov, chief editor of top independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta that this week lost its print licence.
Russians bid farewell to Gorbachev, but without Putin
Russians on Saturday paid their final respects to the last leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, in a ceremony held in Moscow without much fanfare and with President Vladimir Putin notably absent.
