President Trump opened his remarks at the Group of 7 gathering of industrialized nations by criticizing the decision to expel Russia from the bloc after Moscow’s 2014 “annexation” of Crimea.

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.

Vladimir Putin could launch a huge attack on the UK by using doomsday technology to block out the sun, experts have warned. Such an attack would see the health of humans and wildlife severely impacted as crops would die,

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

President Donald Trump took questions from reporters at the G7 summit in Canada and said that Russian President Vladimir Putin was insulted after being thrown out of the G8 summit. Trump went on to say he understands that Putin took offense and stated that Putin "doesn't even speak to the people that threw him out.

Trump has generally veered away from overtly criticizing Putin while openly berating Ukraine's leader Volodymyr Zelensky, but has repeatedly condemned Russia's lethal airstrikes and floated that the Kremlin could be "tapping us along."

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.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has denied he has poor eyesight, despite being pictured regularly reading from large-sized scripts in his briefing notes