“Turkey constantly violated Syrian airspace in the past”, Putin said Thursday during his annual news conference in Moscow.
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The segments featuring Putin and Trump, however, were filmed on two different continents and Trump and Putin did not actually meet.
Mr. Putin praised the Bank of Russian Federation and the government for their handling of the economy, saying there shouldn’t be pressure on the central bank to cut lending rates, and instead measures should taken to reduce inflation to allow the bank to reduce rates. Speaking Thursday at a televised news conference, Putin said the Cabinet is coping well with the economic crisis and he sees no need to revamp its membership. “If somebody in the Turkish leadership made a decision to lick the Americans in one place…”
Putin, a former KGB spy and avid outdoorsman, has staked his reputation on his macho image, with his press shop even releasing a photo of the Russian leader topless on horseback.
He saw “no prospect” of ties improving with Turkey, which Russian Federation has put under sanctions, under its current leaders.
Putin had said earlier he was ready to work with the eventual victor in the presidential race.
Mr Putin said that, once the Syrians decide it is time to stop fighting and launch talks, “we aren’t going to be more Syrian than the Syrians themselves”, and Moscow will wrap up its military action.
Putin said Russian Federation will continue to “support the Syrian Army’s offensive for as long as [it] is conducting its operation”.
Donald Trump speaks in the Republican presidential debate hosted by CNN in Las Vegas on December 15, …
“He does not like Obama at all; he doesn’t respect Obama at all”, Trump said then.
Ulyukayev also said that Russian Federation will try to find a solution to the deadlock when meeting with Ukrainian and European Union officials in Brussels next Monday.
He said Russian Federation wants the conflict settled and is ready to use its influence with the rebels in eastern Ukraine to reach a compromise.
Donald Trump is “tremendous”, and “a really brilliant and talented person, without any doubt”, Putin said, Buzzfeed, quoting the Russian news agency Interfax, reports.
Putin admitted that Russia’s gross domestic product (GDP), incomes, and investment were falling while inflation stands as high as 12.3 percent since the start of the year.
President Vladimir Putin says that Russia’s economy is showing signs of stabilization despite plummeting oil prices. “The peak of the crisis, in any case”.
Last week, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich said that Russian experts were planning to travel to Egypt to work on strengthening aviation security, after which Moscow might remove its flights ban.
“When the price dropped from $100 to $50 per barrel we planned the budget considering these figures”.
“On the whole it suits us”, he said. “But now … it is already 38. That’s why we will have to correct something there”. “This is who should be given the Nobel Peace Prize”.
Reuters reported last month, citing multiple sources who know her, that Katerina was working in a senior post at Moscow State University and that she had described herself as the spouse of Kirill Shamalov, a shareholder in petrochemicals company Sibur.
“If someone is doping, they should definitely be punished in the proper way because it destroys the idea of fair competition”, Putin said in his annual news conference.
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“I will get along – I think – with Putin, and I will get along with others, and we will have a much more stable – stable world”, he said. “Now, thank God, this isn’t the case. They’ve only been studying at Russian universities”.
