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Kremlin

June 6, 2022

U.S. gives reasons it will close embassy in Russia

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken last month quipped that he would like to dedicate Taylor Swift’s ‘We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together’ to Mr Putin.

Vladimir Putin
May 19, 2022

Russia seizes Google’s bank account

Google had moved many of its employees out of Russia since Moscow began its invasion of Ukraine on February 24.

Google Hq
May 6, 2022

West lying; Russia not planning to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine:

Russia foreign ministry spokesman said Russia’s nuclear doctrine provides for the use of nuclear weapons only if the country’s very existence is threatened.

Foreign ministry spokesperson Alexei Zaitsev
April 25, 2022

Schröder’s defence of Putin ‘downright absurd’: SPD leader

“Gerhard Schröder has been acting merely as a businessman for many years, and we should stop perceiving him as an elder statesman.”

Saskia Esken (Credit: Global Echo)
April 4, 2022

UK seeks tough NATO response after Russia ‘massacred’ Ukraine’s civilians

Mr Johnson had already condemned Russia’s “despicable attacks” against Ukrainian civilians in Irpin and Bucha.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson
March 4, 2022

Airbnb suspends operations in Russia, Belarus

The CEO announced via twitter that the home-rental giant was going to offer free temporary housing for up to 100,000 refugees fleeing Ukraine.

March 1, 2022

Nations continue to isolate Russia as Ukraine fighting rages

Russia has massed a convoy of armoured vehicles, tanks and other military equipment that stretches about 40 miles (64 km), U.S. satellite company Maxar said.

Russian troops in Kazakhstan
February 28, 2022

Anonymous claims responsibility for cyberattacks on Russia

The group says it’s on a campaign to keep Russian government websites offline, and free Russians of “Putin’s state censorship machine”.

Notorious hacker collective Anonymous speaking on #EndSARS. [CREDIT: ABC News]
January 21, 2022

Ukraine: UK to warn Putin to ‘desist and step back’

She would claim the “Kremlin has not learned the lessons of history” and that “invasion will only lead to a terrible quagmire and loss of life…”

Vladimir Putin
January 5, 2021

U.S. broke all rules of world politics: Russia

“The war is, thank God, impossible so long as there is nuclear parity,” Mr. Peskov said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin (Credit: BBC)