And he personally bestowed President Vladimir Putin with Angola's highest honour the Order of Agostinho Neto...

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune held an 18 April call with President Vladimir Putin to celebrate 60 years of diplomatic relations and 'express their satisfaction with the progress registered by their bilateral cooperation in every sector...

Alrosa's managing director Sergei Ivanov has been a close business ally of Russia's President Vladimir Putin and the company has extensive links to the country's military industrial complex...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has already claimed sanctions against Russia had led to a global food crisis and spiralling energy prices...

Many educated Zimbabwean Uber drivers in Johannesburg and Cape Town were shocked by the Ramaphosa government's position: for them Russia's Vladimir Putin is Robert Mugabe resurrected...

On 22 February his government protested President Vladimir Putin's recognition of the independence of the Donetsk and the Luhansk 'People's Republics' backing Ukraine's sovereignty and called on Russia to withdraw from Crimea too...

He added that Russia's President Vladimir Putin had reassured him that the negotiations with Ukraine were progressing...

Its position is complicated by the growing role of the Wagner Group whose chief Yevgeny Prigozhin is known to be close to Russia's President Vladimir Putin...

They first showed Vladimir Putin that they deserved greater consideration and support for confirming their friendship when Moscow is increasingly isolated...