The first round of the presidential election in Russia is taking place from Friday to Sunday this weekend. It will be the country's eighth presidential election and more than 112 million voters will be called to the polls.
Even Hitler never thought of locking up the surviving captured defenders of the Brest Fortress in cells and trying them under the laws of Nazi Germany for resisting the occupation. And Putin, who still fails to catch up with Hitler in military art and politics, still decided to "craft" the German Fuhrer, surpassing him at least in meanness, tyranny and insanity. And he succeeded.
The Honourable Mélanie Joly, Minister of Foreign Affairs, today announced that Canada is imposing new sanctions under the Special Economic Measures (Russia) Regulations in response to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ongoing egregious and unjustifiable invasion of Ukraine.
French President Emmanuel Macron said it is vital that Russia is not humiliated so that when the fighting stops in Ukraine a diplomatic solution can be found, adding that he believed Paris would play a mediating role to end the conflict.
In all likelihood, in two or three months, Russia's most difficult problem will be choosing a new name for the country. This will not be easy at all. But the existing one nowadays, will become such a terrible stigma that it will probably have to be replaced with something else.
The work of the 17th Cross-Border Cooperation Forum has started in Kokshetau, Kazinform correspondent reports.
Participating the forum are President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and his Russian counterpart President Vladimir Putin.
This year the traditional event is held virtually. The live broadcast is available on Khabar 24 TV Channel.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Russian President Vladimir Putin made a joint statement on Jan. 11.
"We, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan I. Aliyev, Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia N. Pashinyan and President of the Russian Federation V. Putin declare the following:
Below, we publish without comment, the text of the joint statement of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan – I. G. Aliyev, the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia – N. V. Pashinyan and the President of the Russian Federation – V. V. Putin, announcing the framework of the peace agreement signed between Azerbaijan and Armenia with the mediation of the Russian Federation.
According to a statement in the “Jamanak Daily”, Armenia and Russia have reached an agreement on the state visit of Nikol Pashinyan to Russia in February 2020 and the visit of Vladimir Putin to Armenia in the autumn.
In 2020 a new agreement is going to be signed to almost double the potential of the 102nd Russian base in Gyumri. The last was stated by the Russian Minister of Defense - Sergei Shoigu, during his recent visit to Yerevan.
