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Putin attends funeral as guard holds suspected nuclear briefcase amid assassination fears

Mourners at the Cathedral in Moscow were cleared out as Vladimir Putin paid his respects - while a man close to him was seen in a suit carrying what appeared to be the Russian nuclear briefcase

Daily Mirror · Apr 8, 2022

Fears genocidal language in Russian media may prompt more war crimes

State news agency publishes article decrying ‘Ukrainianism’ as an ‘artificial anti-Russian construct with no civilisational substance’

The Guardian - UK · Apr 7, 2022

Vladimir Putin 'wants to build pro-Russia empire from Vladivostok to Portugal', warns security expert

Dmitry Medvedev also said Putin's "special military operation" in Ukraine was undertaken in a bid to "demilitarise" and "de-Nazify" the country

Irish Mirror · Apr 7, 2022

Zelensky tells UN that Russia must be expelled from Security Council

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky urged the UN Security Council to expel Russia “so it cannot block decisions about its own war” during a video address to a meeting of the council on Tuesday. Zelensky also said that Russian forces have committed “the most terrible war crimes” since World War II…

France 24 · Apr 5, 2022

Moscow warns of' symmetrical' response to Western countries' expulsion of Russian diplomats

Russia will respond proportionately to the expulsion of its diplomats from a number of Western countries, Russian ex-president and deputy head of security council Dmitry Medvedev said late on Monday.

Reuters · Apr 5, 2022

All Russia’s Big Exports Could Soon Be in Roubles, Kremlin Signals

The Kremlin indicated on Wednesday that all of Russia's energy and commodity exports could be priced in roubles, toughening President Vladimir Putin's attempt to make the West feel the pain of the sanctions it imposed for the invasion of Ukraine. With Russia's economy facing its gravest crisis since the 1991…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Mar 30, 2022

All Russia's big exports could soon be in roubles, Kremlin signals

The Kremlin indicated on Wednesday that all of Russia's energy and commodity exports could be priced in roubles, toughening President Vladimir Putin's attempt to make the West feel the pain of the sanctions it imposed for the invasion of Ukraine.

Reuters · Mar 30, 2022

Kremlin official says Russia will only use nuclear arms if its existence is threatened

Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said this week that Russia reserved the right to use nuclear weapons.

Axios · Mar 29, 2022

Kremlin Says Biden's Remark on the End of Putin Is 'Alarming'

The Kremlin said on Monday that US President Joe Biden's remark that Vladimir Putin "cannot remain in power" was a cause for alarm, a guarded response to the first public call from the United States for an end to Putin's 22-year rule. "For God's sake, this man cannot remain in…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Mar 28, 2022

Kremlin says Biden's remark on the end of Putin is 'alarming'

The Kremlin said on Monday that U.S. President Joe Biden's remark that Vladimir Putin "cannot remain in power" was a cause for alarm, a guarded response to the first public call from the United States for an end to Putin's 22-year rule.

Reuters · Mar 28, 2022