Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin

Mercuria originally from Poland is now based in Switzerland as is Russia’s Gunvor which has links to the Kremlin and Premier Vladimir Putin and has skilfully exploited markets in Angola Congo-Kinshasa and Nigeria with Equatorial Guinea in prospect...

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin demonstrated Russia's ability to project power around the world while Russian ships were at the same time conducting joint operations with the Venezuelan Navy...

Labour's Lord Truscott (author of a biography of Russian Premier Vladimir Putin) has been pilloried with others as a peer-for-hire and last month was accused by the Sunday Times of London of accepting cash for services rendered...

Since former President Vladimir Putin's landmark visit in 2006 which promised to boost business ties much of the expected Russian investment in South Africa's mining sector has failed to materialise...

The project was said to be high on the agenda at last month's meeting between Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Yar'Adua...

Kabila has been invited to almost every major world capital: to Washington to meet United States' George Bush on 26 October; a date with Belgium's Guy Verhofstadt; an upcoming trip to China to meet Hu Jintao followed by a stopover in Moscow to meet Russia's Vladimir Putin; then to India to see Prime Minister Manoman Singh whose officials are putting together a Chinese-style investment package for Congo...

Comrade companies This week Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in South Africa the essential first stop on his belated Africa tour...

Neither the host President Vladimir Putin nor his core agenda of extracting maximum diplomatic leverage from Russia's vast energy reserves had much interest for Africa...

Leviev born in Uzbekistan and a member of the Jewish ultra-orthodox Chabad Lubavitch movement has helped Russian President Vladimir Putin in his battle against oligarch Vladimir Gusiinsky...

Pro-Bouteflika Algerians argue that he is still the best President they will get and are proud that within a few weeks he has conferred with Russia's President Vladimir Putin with his old friend Cuba's Fidel Castro and with Louis Freeh Director of the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)...