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Russian President Vladimir Putin is inching closer to seizing president-for-life status in Moscow, despite a lowered approval rating in recent months and a range of coronavirus-connected challenges to his carefully crafted image as a 21st century czar. Mr. Putin, who has worked behind-the-scenes since early this year to engender sweeping constitutional changes that would allow…

Russia will soon have the ability to counter hypersonic weapons deployed by adversaries, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Sunday. Hypersonic weapons fly at speeds at least five times the speed of sound — or Mach 5 — and are widely viewed as a game-changing military technology. For years specialists and military insiders have warned the…

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday said Russia has seen minimal losses from the COVID-19 pandemic and has handled the situation better than the U.S. — which he says has been distracted by political priorities. Russia, with a population of 144.5 million, has reported one of the highest number of coronavirus cases in the world…

Published on May 26, 2020President Vladimir Putin announced that Russia's nationwide lockdown was being eased from 12 May, and that businesses could go back to work to stop unemployment rising further. He also said it was up to individual regions to decide the best policy. But Russia's daily infection rate remains high, compared with the…