AS Vladimir Putin celebrates 25 years of rule over Russia, his first speech as president resurfaced showing a slew of broken promises and the emergence of a very different leader. A quarter of a ...

Much of his short speech was characterized by omissions. While Mr. Putin on Tuesday honored the country’s “fighters and commanders,” he invoked Russians’ pride in defeating Nazism and ...

including Putin's speech and answering questions, lasts about three hours. Last year, it lasted 3 hours and 41 minutes, just shy of the record set in 2021, when the head of state spoke to Valdai ...

President Vladimir Putin has said in a New Year address that ... The televised New Year’s Eve speech, which continues a tradition started by Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, is a holiday staple ...

His second-longest speech at the plenary session of SPIEF ... The third-longest address to the Forum lasted 49 minutes in 2012, while in 2021 Putin spoke for 45 minutes. Over the past ten years ...

The announcement Friday that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny had died in prison coincided with the 17th anniversary of a speech ... in September 2021." That was when Putin, whose ...

Putin was named acting president on New Year's Eve in 1999, when predecessor Boris Yeltsin unexpectedly resigned and apologised for the country's post-Soviet turmoil in a speech that stunned Russians.

Illegal migrants make up an estimated seven percent of the population in Russia and form a key part of the nation's economy.