On TV, Putin Plays the Role He Likes Best: Russia’s Mr. Fix-It In his lengthy annual Q-and-A session on state television, President Vladimir V. Putin fielded questions mostly from aggrieved Russians.

A timeline of terror attacks in Russia under Vladimir Putin Many of the acts of terror conducted under Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has led the country as president or prime minister since 2000, were apparently intended to further separatist or Islamist militant agendas and Putin has often responded Read more ... to such incidents by expanding the powers of the p...

Will Trump and Putin be BFFs or frenemies? No one is more likely to test the new administration than Russia's Vladimir Putin.

Obama Suggests Russia’s Putin Had Role in Election Hacking President Barack Obama implicated Russian President Vladimir Putin in cyberattacks designed to hurt Democrats in last month’s election, and he promised a “methodical” retaliation.

Obama: Vladimir Putin Definitely Maybe Knew About Hacks President Obama didn’t come right out and say it but it was pretty clear at his last press conference of 2016, that he thought the Vladimir Putin was involved in the election year email hacks.

Vladimir Putin Praises Donald Trump Russia's President Vladimir Putin praised U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in comments to media after his annual news conference Thursday, but cautioned that it isn't Russia's place to judge American candidates. Photo: AP

Putin says Russia wants to develop ties with U.S. whoever wins election MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia wanted to develop relations with the United States, irrespective of who will become the next American president. "We are ready to work with any president, for whom the American Read more ... people will vote," Putin told his annual news conference. "It's them (the Americans) who try all the time to prompt us who to vote for," Putin said. (Reporting by Maria Tsvetkova, Alexander Winning and Christian LOwe; Writing by Dmitry Solovyov; Editing by Maria Kiselyova)

Vladimir Putin of Russia to Focus on Syria at U.N. President Vladimir V. Putin is expected to explain his proposal for a broad international coalition to fight the Islamic State threat in the Middle East.

Europe migrant crisis was to be 'expected': Putin Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday called Europe's migrant crisis a predictable result of its policies in the Middle East and said he had personally warned of the consequences. "I consider that this crisis was absolutely expected," Putin said Read more ... in comments broadcast on national television. Russia is a long-standing ally of embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime, which it is continuing to support militarily.

As Russia Remembers War in Europe, Guest of Honor Is From China China’s leader, Xi Jinping, will stand with President Vladimir V. Putin at Saturday’s Victory Day parade, a sign of Russia’s public pivot to an alliance with the Far East.