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May 10 2025 
Statement by the President of Russia to the media
http://www.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/76899 – Yandex translation
At the time of writing, the only complete and translated statement on video is on Telegram: https://t.me/news_kremlin_eng/5512
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In this regard, despite everything, we suggest that the Kiev authorities resume negotiations, which they interrupted at the end of 2022, and resume direct negotiations. And, I emphasize, without any preconditions. We suggest starting immediately next Thursday,… Continue reading -
May 04 2025
Key takeaways from Russian President Vladimir Putin in a documentary “Russia. Kremlin. Putin. 25 Years
From Ria Novosti
[Comment: This interview was much broader than what this set of key takeaways indicate. We will post it as soon as there is a translated and good copy available.]
❗️Key takeaways from Russian President Vladimir Putin in a documentary “Russia. Kremlin. Putin. 25 Years”:
🔹Russia had no need to use nuclear weapons… Continue reading
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Feb 12 2025 
Formal Kremlin Readout: Trump / Putin telephone conversation
Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with President of the United States of America Donald Trump
🔹The leaders discussed issues related to the prisoner exchange between Russia and the United States. The US President assured the Russian President of the American side’s commitment to fulfill all the agreements reached.
🔹The leaders also discussed a possible Ukraine settlement.… Continue reading
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Jan 17 2025 
(Update) Key Takeaways: Putin and Pezeshkian on the Russia-Iran strategic partnership agreement:
Following the high-level Russia–Iran talks, Vladimir Putin and Masoud Pezeshkian signed the Agreement on Comprehensive Strategic Partnership between the Russian Federation and the Islamic Republic of Iran.
[The Treaty] sets ambitious goals and outlines guidelines for strengthening bilateral cooperation in the long term across political and security matters, in trade and investment, and cultural and humanitarian… Continue reading
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Jan 17 2025 
Putin and Pezeshkian’s historic meeting marks new era of cooperation
Russian President Vladimir Putin emphasized the importance of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian’s visit to Russia.
🟥 Strategic partnership agreement:
🔺 A major agreement is set to be signed during the visit.
🔺 This pact will drive cooperation across all sectors.
🟥 Strengthening trade & economic ties:
🔺 Putin described the current pace of economic collaboration as “satisfactory.”
🔺The new agreement aims… Continue reading
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Nov 22 2024 
Putin: State awards for the novel Oreshnik missile
Vladimir Putin held a meeting at the Kremlin with the leadership of the Ministry of Defense. (He really likes that Oreshnik!)
He kept using the word ‘novel’ in his speech yesterday, and I took it to mean new .. new concept. Not five minutes later the talking heads were speculating on which older technology this was… Continue reading
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Nov 21 2024 
❗️ ❗️ Putin: Address to the nation — in progress (Update, now complete with transcript))
This is happening now but the RT live stream does not want to work for me. No doubt we will have Putin’s full address from another source quite rapidly.
https://www.rt.com/on-air/607958-putin-president-russia-statement/
Here are the notes as taken down from other streams:
Putin stated that Western missiles were used to strike military facilities in Russia’s Bryansk and Kursk regions.
The conflict… Continue reading
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Nov 08 2024 
President Putin’s speech at the Valdai Club
This is a good and complete video out of Putin’s speech. The transcript will be updated here as it is completed. I suggest that this becomes a ‘required course’ for all of us.
The best description of Mr.Putin is cool, calm, collected, warm and friendly with his trademark of a phenomenal grasp of international affairs and… Continue reading
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Oct 22 2024 
BRICS: All eyes on Putin and Xi
🇷🇺🇨🇳 Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov revealed key details about the meeting between President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping (https://t.me/geopolitics_live/35506) on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit in Kazan.
Their discussions highlighted the depth of cooperation and shared interests between the two nations.
🇷🇺 Putin and Xi’s discussions were open and constructive, emphasising the importance of their… Continue reading
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Sep 18 2024 
Baby its cold out there
Watch out Lula. Putin has turned off the charm and is all business.
Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with President of the Federative Republic of Brazil Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
🔸The discussion focused on current issues relating to the further growth of the Russian-Brazilian strategic partnership. The two leaders reaffirmed their mutual interest in building… Continue reading
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Sep 02 2024 
Vladimir Putin will begin his trip to Siberia and the Far East, during which he will visit Mongolia.
Mr. Putin, as is customary ahead of a state visit, interviewed with the Mongolia’s paper of record.
These are main points and the transcript will be posted. The Kremlin site has been unreachable now for hours.
The… Continue reading
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Jul 13 2024 
India-Russia ties take a quantum leap in the fog of Ukraine war
First a comment and then MK Bhadrakumar on India.
Comment: Mr. Lavrov indicated in the past weeks that the original BRICS, RIC is going to be called together. This happened with Modi’s visit to Putin that shook the foundations of NATO. There is press that NATO encouraged (begged, threatened) India to change the dates of this… Continue reading
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Jul 09 2024 
The Modi visit to Russia and Putin
Has India realized that the USA is kaput and the future is multipolar? Hopefully, the renewed strategic partnership with Russia will lead to a detente with China. This is what it looks like in terms of comprehensive signed agreements: (thanks so much to the reader who sent this to me!)
Now we wait to hear what… Continue reading
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Jul 06 2024 
Vladimir Putin at the conclusion of the SCO Heads of State Council Meeting
Vladimir Putin took part in a meeting of the SCO Heads of State Council in Astana.
(Bolding and comments are mine)
President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev chaired the meeting. Other participants include heads of SCO member state delegations and heads of SCO permanent governance bodies.
At the beginning of the meeting, the leaders signed a resolution on granting Belarus the status of an SCO member state.
Following the meeting, the parties signed the Astana Declaration of the Council… Continue reading
