Vladimir Putin

If BSP governs Bulgaria after these elections, Bulgaria will be the first country in the European Union which will "categorically" raise the issue of lifting the sanctions against Russia, stated BSP leader Korneliya Ninova in an interview for BNT.

Russia is "ready" to finance in full the expansion of Hungary's only nuclear plant, Russian president Vladimir Putin said on Feb. 2 in Budapest.

The original agreement signed between Hungary and Russia's Rosatom in 2014 involved an 80-percent loan of 10-billion-euro ($11-billion) from Moscow.

Following his meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban on Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared Russia's readiness to renew energy partnerships with Bulgaria, despite lingering disappointent over the collapse of the South Stream gas pipeline project.

Russian President Putin said on Thursday his country didn't feel offended about Bulgaria and other countries' decision not to carry through the South Stream gas pipeline project due to their lack of "manliness".

Greek society is raging again. People are exhausted and angry. The things you hear being said are very similar to the noises ahead of the first elections in 2012, when the old political system was routed in a spectacular manner. Nobody could have predicted then what would follow.

President Donald Trump discussed Syria and the fight against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Jan. 28 in one of several calls with world leaders that the new U.S. president used to put his stamp on international affairs. 

The Presidents of United States and Russia talked over the phone on Saturday evening, touching issues such as Syria, the Israel-Palestina conflict, the fight against terrorism, and bilateral trade.

The Kremlin said Ukraine had also been on the agenda.

Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump talked for around 45 minutes.

Theresa May has said she believed she could a forge a strong personal relationship with Donald Trump, arguing that “sometimes, opposites attract”,
The prime minister argued that the two countries “have a joint responsibility to lead”.

The US President Donald Trump and the Russian President Vladimir Putin will have their first conversation over the phone on Saturday. It is going to be a relatively typical first conversation.

The Kremlin said on Monday it expected to soon agree a date for the first phone call between President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump, but that it had no information for now about when the two men might hold their first meeting.