Boris Yeltsin

In the interview, Putin said, among other things, that he has no intention of attacking Poland, and that starting a global war is against common sense.
He added that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, after winning the presidential elections in 2019, should have "led Ukraine towards peace", but then he changed his decision.

Namely, as the British express.co.uk published as exclusive news, the overthrow of the Russian president from power is underway.

A Russian gallery has said one of its security guards was implicated in vandalizing a 20th century avant-garde artwork, after he drew eyes onto figures of an abstract painting with a pen.

In December, a painting by Anna Leporskaya, a student of legendary artist Kazimir Malevich, was found defaced while on display at the Yeltsin Centre in Yekaterinburg.

"It was important for Yeltsin that Putin was of different generation because the country should not have been left to those who ruled it during the Soviet Union", former Kremlin Head of Administration Valentin Yumashev said during a public interview at the Yeltsin Presidential Center in Yekaterinburg.

The death toll is significantly higher than the official death toll. This is clear from the classified by the National Security Archive of the US report of the Chernobyl accident, RIA Novosti reports.

"The agreement on friendship, cooperation and partnership between Ukraine and Russia will be abolished on April 1, 2019," TASS is reporting, citing the proposal.

The agency said 277 deputies voted to support the decision that needed 226 votes to pass.

Vladimir Putin rolled to a crushing re-election victory Sunday for six more years as Russia's president, and he told cheering supporters in a triumphant but brief speech that "we are bound for success."

There had been no doubt that Putin would win in his fourth electoral contest; he faced seven minor candidates and his most prominent foe was blocked from the ballot.

Vladimir Putin awarded Ivica Dacic, Serbian foreign minister and the leader of the Socialist Party of Serbia, with the Order of Friendship, a state-awarded honour given to foreigners for their contribution to strengthening friendship and cooperation with Russia.

Boris Yeltsin's Russia was one of the first countries to recognize the southernmost state to split from Yugoslavia as "Republic of Macedonia." The Kremlin's stance back then was dictated by the misguided impression that it could revive the pan-Slavist policy of the tzars.

Photo: Sputnik / Grigoriy Vasilenko

Award-winning Serbian director Emir Kusturica says he considers President Vladimir Putin to be responsible for making Russians proud of their culture and history once again, explaining to RT why he holds the longtime Russian leader in such high regard.