The Russian president said he supported an idea,discussed before Alexei Navalny’s death,of exchanging the opposition figure for Russians imprisoned in the West.
The landslide victory underlined that the Russian leader would accept nothing less than full control of the country’s political system and its agenda.
To achieve the desired election result,analysts say the Kremlin used a ‘menu of manipulation’ that included candidate fixing,voter fixing and result fixing.
Putin,71,will easily secure a new six-year term that will enable him to overtake Stalin and become Russia’s longest-serving leader for more than 200 years.
When it comes to a choice between the US national interest and Trump’s personal interests,America loses.
Russia has dispatched officials with ballot boxes to people’s homes in occupied regions,saying it is safer for them to vote on their doorsteps.
Geert Wilders shocked Europe when his party came from nowhere to secure the most votes in the Netherlands’ most recent elections.
Moscow claimed earlier that it killed hundreds of Ukrainians deep inside the country as a result of attacks by Kyiv. Ukraine says they were Russians.
Former president Donald Trump blasted US President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address as an “angry,dark,hate-filled rant” that was more divisive than unifying.
Voters in Ireland have delivered “two wallops” to proposals to remove language about women’s duties being in the home and broaden the definition of family beyond marriage from the country’s constitution.
It is the biggest day on the 2024 election calendar so far and one on which Donald Trump can take a massive leap towards securing the Republican nomination.