Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed many people in the U.S. agree with Russia's "traditional" views on family, gender, and culture, suggesting that support for these values is growing in the West. Putin spoke with Russian propagandist Pavel Zarubin, who presents the program Moscow. Kremlin. Putin on state media channel Russia-1.

Russian business leaders are backing legislation that would stop Western companies one day returning to the market they left after the Ukraine invasion.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump have held a lengthy phone call to discuss the escalating situation in the Middle East and Ukraine peace talks.

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke to U.S. President Donald Trump for 50 minutes on Saturday, focusing on hostilities between Israel and Iran and calling for efforts to bring them to an end.

Trump has generally veered away from overtly criticizing Putin while openly berating Ukraine's leader Volodymyr Zelensky, but has repeatedly condemned Russia's lethal airstrikes and floated that the Kremlin could be "tapping us along."

Smirnova, the director of the Narva museum that is housed in the fortress, has defiantly hung from the battlements a large banner of Putin’s face, with the words “war criminal” below it. In January this year a court in Moscow issued an arrest warrant for Smorzhevskikh-Smirnova on the charge of spreading false information.

Vladimir Putin has refuted claims about his deteriorating eyesight, despite being frequently spotted reading from large-sized scripts during briefings.The 72-year-old leader is known for his reluctance to admit any health issues.

Donald Trump was branded a "Russian asset" for suggesting that Vladimir Putin and Russia should become part of the G7 again. Russia was kicked out of the summit after annexing Crimea in 2014