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Vladimir Putin is approaching the electoral outer limits. Claiming a record landslide on Sunday of 87.28% of the vote on a 77.44% turnout, Putin has launched ...

In an election widely denounced as neither free nor fair, the longtime Russia leader claimed victory by margins virtually unimaginable in any democracy.

Putin hails his victory in a Russian election with no real opposition. The Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case that examines whether the government ...

Presidential election results underline Vladimir Putin's total control of Russia's political system, but his foes made their presence known.

If you don't win more than 90 percent of the votes, you're not doing it right.

Joseph Stalin would find comparisons to Vladimir Putin "insulting", a former British ambassador to Russia has told Sky News. It comes as Marina Litvinenko, the ...

Chinese leader Xi Jinping, and other leaders benefiting from Vladimir Putin's rejection of a Western-led global order, will be cheering his inevitable ...

The Russian leader made the comments following a presidential election that watchdogs have been quick to call a 'sham' contest.

MOSCOW — In a display of defiance against mounting reports of electoral fraud and Western criticism calling his election illegitimate, Russian President ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin says his country won't relent in its invasion of Ukraine and has announced plans for a buffer zone to protect against ...

Vladimir Putin won a landslide reelection victory, taking some 87% of all ballots following three days of voting derided by Russia's opposition and the West ...

The president addresses thousands in Moscow after official figures suggest he won 87% of the vote.

The president was joined on stage by his three token challengers, Nikolai Kharitonov, Leonid Slutsky and Vladislav Davankov, as Mr Putin told the crowds ...

Vladimir Putin secured an unprecedented fifth term as president of Russia Monday, as the election commission announced the results of a vote in which he faced ...

Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini distanced himself on Monday from Western leaders' critical response to Vladimir Putin's landslide victory in ...

A defiant Vladimir Putin said Russia won't be stopped from pursuing its goals after a presidential election whose outcome was pre-determined and which ...

Western governments lined up on Monday to condemn Russian President Vladimir Putin's landslide reelection as unfair and undemocratic, but China, India and ...

Vladimir Putin was reelected with 87% of ballots, in a three-day election derided by Russia's opposition and the West as neither free nor fair.

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks in Moscow after polling stations closed. Putin -- who is now set to surpass Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's nearly ...

A senior Ukrainian official said on Monday Russian President Vladimir Putin's idea of creating a buffer zone inside Ukrainian territory was a clear ...

Several leaders in the region have extended their congratulations to Russia's President Vladimir Putin over his reelection, as Western countries condemned ...

President Vladimir Putin won a record post-Soviet landslide in Russia's election on Sunday, cementing his already tight grip on power in a victory he said ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin won reelection and slammed the US political system in a post-election appearance. CNN's Matthew Chance reports.

While the Russian election results were condemned in the west, the reaction across Asia, Africa and Latin America shows a new global dynamic is emerging.

Vladimir Putin has won a new six-year term in the Kremlin in a presidential election in which he faced little competition. Official results say he received 87% ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin will travel to China in May for talks with Xi Jinping, in what could be the Kremlin chief's first overseas trip of his new ...

Vladimir Putin's reelection to a fifth term in office comes at a time of geopolitical uncertainty for Russia.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has approved a transaction for the acquisition of 100% of the shares in gold mining company Highland Gold, according to an ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday told the Federal Security Service (FSB), the main successor to the Soviet-era KGB, to help Russian companies ...

We will punish them without any statute of limitations, wherever they may be located,” he said.

Shpilkin repeated his model in the 2018 presidential election, asserting that Vladimir Putin may have been awarded about 10 million fraudulent votes. Now ...

Vladimir Putin views his election for a fifth term as president as a plebiscite to cement his legitimacy as a great wartime leader leading an existential ...

Being “elected” to office, even if by dubious means, holds its own allure for dictators and other types of authoritarian leaders. That is why Saddam Hussain ...

Moscow — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday told the Federal Security Service (FSB), the main successor to the Soviet-era KGB, to help Russian ...

For more than two years, the Russian dictator has sought to justify Europe's largest invasion since World War II by portraying it as a sacred mission to reclaim ...