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The Russian deficit exceeds all the expectations of the Russian Government. The broken promise of the Kremlin spokesman also makes his rejection of a mobilization doubt
Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin, Friedrich Merz, Giorgia Meloni and Mahmoud Abbas are among more than 50 leaders who won't make it to the UN General Assembly. Their reasons range from illness and domestic affairs to holidays.
The FIDE President's election on Saturday in Samarkand faces a Kazakh of Russian origin and two very opposed Germans
The formation of the Russian president reserves dozens of seats for veterans. The Communist Party supports him despite denouncing electoral fraud
United Russia, President Vladimir Putin's party, expanded its majority to reach the unpublished number of 355 seats in Parliament, as reported by the Russian electoral authorities on Monday. The government thus maintains its strong control of power after carefully orchestrated elections, in which most opposition candidates were excluded. The first elections held since the large-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 were marked by massive attacks by Kiev.
Vladimir Putin's United Russia won just under 58% of the vote, the electoral commission said. Meanwhile, Putin ally Ramzan Kadyrov won nearly 100% of the vote in elections in the Russian republic of Chechnya.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party won a large majority in parliamentary elections, according to preliminary results published by state media Monday, in a vote held amid Ukrainian drone strikes, cyberattacks and a crackdown on anti-war opposition. The election was the first since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. France 24 International affairs editor, Oliver Farry, shares further insights from this election.
Vladimir Putin will likely use the result to claim most Russians back the so-called special military operation in Ukraine, writes the BBC's Steve Rosenberg.
Vladimir Putin's party was a step away from securing the parliamentary majority in the first legislative elections his country held in times of war. The Kremlin leader has highlighted the results as a sign of popular support for the military campaign in Ukraine. This process, of which the opposition factors have been almost completely excluded, defines half of the seats of the Duma or Lower House: 225 of the 450 curules.
From this 18th and until September 20th, Russia held its first parliamentary elections from the beginning of its invasion of Ukraine. The opposition denounces that Vladimir Putin's government prevented the parties that do not adhere to their rhetoric of war against Kiev from participating in the elections, so their presence is almost zero. We analyze what these parliamentarians represent with Vladimir Rouvinski, a master in history and international relations.
President Vladimir Putin comes to parliamentary elections in the middle of a somewhat uncomfortable position. With the changes in the Ukrainian Army's strategy of recent months, the Russians began to live in their own flesh the war initiated by the Kremlin four years ago, with drones impacting on strategic structures, dissupply, scarcity, inflation and lack of workers. Our correspondent Xavier Colàs extended the information.
The French President warns that the hybrid attacks in Moscow have been on the rise in the country and in Europe. And he claims that "they won't go without an answer."
In an interview with DW, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his country was in a strong position to negotiate and offered to meet Vladimir Putin in Miami.
PRESS REVIEW – Friday, September 18: Russia holds its first parliamentary elections since the Ukraine war. Since only parties loyal to Vladimir Putin are running, the elections are seen as nothing but a veneer of democracy. In sports: Zinedine Zidane will unveil his first selection as coach of the French football team. Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic organisers approve a croc-infested river to hold canoe and rowing events. Finally, the first new feline species in a century has been discovered.
Ice hockey legend Alexander Ovechkin has lent Vladimir Putin's party a helping hand in its parliamentary election campaign. That's in keeping with a pattern of support by an athlete who claims not to be political.
