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"I want to thank him because we’re trying to cut down our payroll and as far as I’m concerned I’m very thankful that he let go of a large number of people," Trump told reporters. "There's no real reason for them to go back."

The Russian president has a history of being pictured in action shots.

"Our relationship with Russia is at an all-time & very dangerous low," Trump said in a Twitter post. "You can thank Congress, the same people that can't even give us HCare!" he added. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday evening the measure showed the Trump administration was

The Moscow Arbitration Court rejected the ruling of the Federal Anti-Monopoly Service of Russia (FAS) regarding the competition charges to Novorossiysk Port

Russian container ports volume keeps growing in 2017. In H1 2017 they handled 2.26 mln TEU, surpassing the data of the same period in 2016 by 15,3%.

A court on Thursday convicted five men of murdering Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, more than two years after he was shot dead near the Kremlin.

Russia and China may soon be cooperating on space projects. Although the two nations are not currently collaborating, it was reported this week that a Russian aerospace firm is currently in talks with China to aid in future lunar missions and that China h

Russia's defence ministry says it is suspending coordination with the United States in Syria over so-called "de-confliction zones" after the Americans downed a Syrian government fighter jet.

Russia hasthreatened to shoot down US warplanes operating in parts of Syria where its air forces operate amid a diplomatic row caused by the downing of a Syrian jet. The country's defence ministry said it had suspended a hotline between Russia and the

By: Flyingclaydisk via abovetopsecret.com Apparently a Russian yacht has been seized and its crew detained in the Sea of Japan. Will be interesting to see how the Russians react to this. Will Putin just let this slide and resolve it quietly through back c

Russia has said it will treat United States planes in Syria as targets after an American warplane shot down a Syrian fighter jet on Sunday.

Russia said Friday that it killed ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and other leaders in a strike in late May.

Secretary of State Tillerson wants flexibility as he tries to improve ties with Russia. The Senate wants to make sure the Trump administration doesn't change course without congressional buy in.

The vote was 97-2.

Vladimir Putin has backed the idea of expanding a program that offers citizens a free hectare of land in Russias Far East to all of the countrys regions. The Russian president made the comment during one of his annual Q&A sessions on Thursday.

“Sovereignty is a big issue with him,” the filmmaker told ABC. However, just because Putin believes in sovereignty does not mean that he “wants to be dominant” in international politics, in Stone’s opinion. All Putin wants is “the interests of the Russian people to be taken into account.”

A new ferry between isolated North Korea and Russia docked for the first time at the Pacific port of Vladivostok on Thursday, inspite of US calls for countries to curtail relations with Pyongyang over its nuclear and missile programmes. The launch of the

Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday, May 10, took part in a gala ice hockey match Sochis Bolshoy Ice Dome.

Russian president lights up scoreboard in gala hockey match after making first public comments on surprise firing of FBI director James Comey

Russian President Vladimir Putin weighed in on James Comey's dismissal before taking the ice for a hockey game in Sochi, Russia. His top diplomat, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, met with President Trump in the Oval Office. Elizabeth Palmer has more.