Dictator of Russia Vladimir Putin
Putin mocks opposition over ‘birdman’ criticism (via AFP)
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday hit back at opponents who made fun of his flight with endangered Siberian cranes, comparing his critics to weak birds who could not keep up with him. Ahead of his arrival at the APEC summit in Vladivostok, Putin donned goggles and took to the controls of a…
Russia seeks to reverse sliding competitiveness (via AFP)
Russia slipped down the global business competitiveness ranking in the years President Vladimir Putin touted economic modernisation as Kremlin chief and premier, a closely-watched survey shows. Now his government concedes that the annual World Economic Forum poll is showing up its failures to address…
Putin blasts EU’s ‘unconstructive’ Gazprom probe (via AFP)
President Vladimir Putin on Sunday condemned as “unconstructive” an anti-trust probe launched by the EU against Russian energy giant Gazprom, saying Moscow was no longer prepared to subsidise eastern Europe. “We believe this approach to be unconstructive,” Putin told reporters on the final day of the…
