As Russia massed troops on its border with Ukraine and invaded the country at the start of the year, Saudi Arabia’s Kingdom Holding Company quietly invested more than $600 million […]
Putin, Vladimir V
Trending topics and news from the Putin, Vladimir V category
Back to news homeRussia’s Unfounded Claims of Secret U.S. Bioweapons Linger On and On
The United States secretly manufactured biological weapons in Ukraine. It trained birds to carry pathogens into Russia. It created Covid-19. It operated laboratories in Nigeria that engineered this year’s outbreak […]
Putin Signals Gas Pipeline Will Resume at Reduced Levels
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia suggested late Tuesday that natural gas would resume flowing to Europe after the Nord Stream 1 pipeline’s maintenance shutdown, but warned that supplies may […]
Seizing Russian Assets to Help Ukraine Sets Off White House Debate
“I think it’s very natural that given the enormous destruction in Ukraine and huge rebuilding costs that they will face, that we will look to Russia to help pay at […]
Chinese Hackers Tried to Steal Russian Defense Data, Report Says
Under China’s authoritarian leader, Xi Jinping, Beijing has refined its approach to cyberspying, transforming over the past decade into a far more sophisticated actor. China’s premier spy agency, borrowing a […]
Elvira Nabiullina, Head of the Central Bank, Is Guiding Russia’s Economy
“She’s well-trusted in the government and by the president,” said Sofya Donets, an economist at Renaissance Capital in Moscow who worked at the central bank from 2007 to 2019. In […]
Russia Wants to Sell More Energy to Asia, but Has to Slash Prices
BEIJING — Last year, the Grand Aniva, a Russian tanker with four spherical tanks for holding ultracold liquefied natural gas, sailed back and forth between a gas field in eastern […]
Nuclear Power Could Help Europe Cut Ties to Russia, but Not for Years
President Emmanuel Macron’s plans for a nuclear power renaissance in France envision a wave of large and small new-generation atomic reactors at an estimated starting price of €50 billion ($57 […]
Amid Sanctions, Putin Reminds the World of His Own Economic Weapons
LONDON — In the five weeks since Russia invaded Ukraine, the United States, the European Union and their allies began an economic counteroffensive that has cut off Russia’s access to […]
Biden will tap oil reserve, hoping to push gasoline prices down.
Energy experts said the reserve release would pack more punch if other countries, like China, also sold oil from their stockpiles. The International Energy Agency, an organization of more than […]