(CNN) — US officials told House and Senate lawmakers Tuesday during classified election security briefings they don’t have direct knowledge that Russian President Vladimir Putin has developed a preference for a candidate in the 2020 US presidential election, according to four sources familiar with the matter. That appears to conflict with what administration officials told the House Intelligence Committee […]
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(CNN) — Russian President Vladimir Putin could stay in power until 2036 after lawmakers on Tuesday voted in favor of a last-ditch proposal to reset the clock on the leader’s presidential term count in an updated version of the constitution. Under current Russian law, Putin is required to step down as president in 2024, when his second consecutive term […]
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US President Donald Trump offered Russian President Vladimir Putin assistance in fighting vast wildfires in Siberia during a phone call on Wednesday, the Kremlin said in a statement. Putin saw the gesture as a step towards warmer relations between both countries, the Kremlin wrote. “The president of Russia praised this move by the President of the United States […]
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Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed any notion that he has compromising information on President Donald Trump, saying in a Fox News interview that Trump wasn’t important enough to bother with when he visited Russia five years ago. Fox News correspondent Chris Wallace gave Putin an opportunity to review a paper copy of the indictment against 12 […]
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President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin have agreed to hold a summit meeting, with the time and place to be announced tomorrow, a Russian official said Wednesday. The summit — the first meeting between the two men not on the sidelines of a larger gathering of world leaders — is expected to occur […]
