Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed many people in the U.S. agree with Russia's "traditional" views on family, gender, and culture, suggesting that support for these values is growing in the West. Putin spoke with Russian propagandist Pavel Zarubin, who presents the program Moscow. Kremlin. Putin on state media channel Russia-1.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump have held a lengthy phone call to discuss the escalating situation in the Middle East and Ukraine peace talks.

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke to U.S. President Donald Trump for 50 minutes on Saturday, focusing on hostilities between Israel and Iran and calling for efforts to bring them to an end.

Russian business leaders are backing legislation that would stop Western companies one day returning to the market they left after the Ukraine invasion.

Smirnova, the director of the Narva museum that is housed in the fortress, has defiantly hung from the battlements a large banner of Putin’s face, with the words “war criminal” below it. In January this year a court in Moscow issued an arrest warrant for Smorzhevskikh-Smirnova on the charge of spreading false information.

He ended it Monday by meeting with a longtime US adversary. Trump traveled to Helsinki, Finland, for a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and afterward Trump said he believed it had significantly improved relations between the two countries.

Vladimir Putin, the 72-year-old Russian dictator, hates admitting to having any health failings and snapped back when an eye surgeon dared to tell him: "Even the best car needs a technical inspection.

During his remarks in a video posted to social media in March, Senator Adam Schiff mocked President Trump over his comments on running for a third term. Schiff stated, "His model appears to be Vladimir Putin.