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President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, spoke for a second time on July 7 in a previously undisclosed discussion, the White House confirmed on Tuesday, according to CNN Politics.

A senior White House official told CNN the discussion was "nearly an hour."

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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.

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US President Trump has revealed in an interview with CBN News that he and Russia's President Vladimir Putin "get along very well" and "that's a good thing." However, he thinks Putin would have been happier if Hillary Clinton had won the elections.

A Russian court handed on July 13 jail terms ranging from 11 to 20 years to five Chechen men for organizing and carrying out the contract killing of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov.

EU diplomatic chief Federica Mogherini and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on July 11 said both sides could cooperate on key international issues but traded barbs over Syria at the same time.

Mogherini, hosting Lavrov in Brussels after visiting Moscow in April, said they regularly discussed global problems affecting their interests.

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"Everyone" knows Russia not only interfered in the US' 2016 elections, but that it also continues to do so "across multiple continents," US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley said in an interview with CNN, adding that "the US won't ever trust Russia."

We should consider ourselves lucky. Imagine if Greece were not a member of the European Union and the eurozone, if it didn't have institutions and justice officials who respect their role. At best, the country would be run as it was in the cursed 80s, when a minister could force approval of a loan or appoint his gardener to head a bank with a simple phone call.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and U.S. President Donald Trump held an unscheduled meeting on July 8 as a part of the G-20 summit in Hamburg. The two leaders held a nearly half hour meeting before the closing session of the G20 summit, Turkish officials have said without giving more details.  

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin met on July 8 on the sidelines of the G-20 Hamburg Summit in Germany.  

The two leaders discussed bilateral cooperation, the Syrian crisis, the Turkish Stream natural gas pipeline project and Akkuyu nuclear power plant, the Kremlin said in a statement.  

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on July 8 that he believes the United States has become "more pragmatic" about the Syrian civil war.

"It seems to me that the US position (on Syria) has become more pragmatic. There is a comprehension that if we combine our efforts, we can achieve a lot," Putin said in Germany, a day after his first meeting with Trump at the G20.