Donald Trump, the Republican US presidential front-runner, is apparently “honoured” that Russian President Vladimir Putin considers the real-estate magnate a “flamboyant” and “very talented” man. “It is not up to us to appraise his positive sides, it is up to the USA voters. but, as we can see, he is an absolute leader in the presidential race”. “He wants to move to a different level of relations, to more solid, deeper relations with Russian Federation and how can Russian Federation not welcome that – we welcome that”. How can we not welcome that?
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One of Trump’s fiercest rivals, Jeb Bush, said Putin’s support for him was evidence that Trump is like Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, a former secretary of state who was part of Obama’s early attempts to improve relations with Russian Federation.
President Putin spoke highly of the reality star and business mogul at an annual news conference held on Thursday.
“I don’t think he was in his best form”, says Gleb Pavlovsky, who was Putin’s chief image-maker during his first two terms in the Kremlin, and is now one of his toughest critics.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, in his annual television marathon address to the nation, has been especially harsh towards neighbour Turkey.
Moscow, meanwhile, has been bolstering Assad with airstrikes ostensibly aimed at ISIS but more often, according to the Pentagon, targeting other opposition fighters, including ones support by Washington.
Russia, like Iran, has been a firm ally of Assad and is intervening militarily on his behalf against anti-government forces in the five-year civil war that has claimed more than a quarter million lives.
And US State Department spokesman John Kirby said Jordan would give an update on its role in the process – drawing up a list of which “terrorist” groups should be blacklisted from talks.
The Russian military have invited experts from 14 nations to work on the flight recorder of the Russian Su-24 bomber downed by Turkey, but only two of them accepted their invitations, the Defense Ministry reported, before unsealing the device. “But if someone in the Turkish government made a decision to lick the Americans in a particular place, I don’t know if they were acting rightly”.
Speaking of his daughters, he said that they “have never lived in the limelight” but that they speak three European languages that they use “in their daily work”.
However, he said he does not consider Turkey an enemy state.
Putin also addressed Russia’s economy, which has been hit with high inflation and plunged against the dollar and euro as the price of oil has fallen drastically in recent months. His optimistic words came despite the low rate of the ruble and poor investment climate in Russian Federation. Brent crude was trading at $37.16 a barrel on Thursday.
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Putin pointed out that militants from North Caucasus took advantage of the visa free regime with Turkey and “vanish” inside Russian Federation after entering the territory with Turkish passports.
