UNITED NATIONS (Sputnik) - The United States and Russia must lead the way to a nuclear weapons reduction as well as find a way back to the negotiating table to implement the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) and agree on a successor treaty, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Monday.
Now that three days of the presidential election in Russia are over, the country's Central Election Commission (CEC) is summarizing and assessing the results of the vote, which took place on March 15-17 across Russia and abroad.
GENEVA (Sputnik) - The Swiss Federal Office for Defense Procurement (Armasuisse) has handed over the first decommissioned F-5 Tiger fighter jet to the US military forces as part of a 22-aircraft contract signed in 2020, the Swiss Federal Council said on Monday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin was successful in his re-election bid after he gained over 80% of the votes and secured a new six-year term following the country's three-day presidential election last week.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pushed back against calls for new elections in the country, warning they would halt the war in Gaza and "paralyze" Israel for at least six months, after the top US senator criticized his leadership.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The German government is ready to communicate with Russian President Vladimir Putin, but Berlin will not congratulate the on his victory in the presidential election, government first deputy spokeswoman Christiane Hoffmann said on Monday.
SOUTHERN LEBANON (Sputnik) - Lebanese armed group Hezbollah said it had mounted attacks against eight positions of Israeli troops and military infrastructure in southern Lebanon.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Israel's security cabinet has approved sending a delegation to Qatar to continue negotiations with Hamas in an effort to secure a ceasefire and release hostages held by the Palestinian movement in the Gaza Strip, Israeli media reported.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - As many as 372,779 people cast a ballot in Russia's presidential election abroad as of 8:30 Moscow time (05:30 GMT) on Monday, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.
As Russia's 2024 presidential election draws to a close, the country's Central Election Commission (CEC) is summarizing and assessing the results of the nationwide vote, which took place on March 15-17.
Over the next six years, Russia will continue to “redefine itself” under Vladimir Putin’s leadership in the multipolar world, former US Marine Corps Intelligence Officer Scott Ritter told Sputnik.
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - Vladimir Putin who has claimed a landslide victory in the Russian presidential vote is focused on unifying his country and its people, unlike his US counterpart, Joe Biden, which also explains a record turnout, former US Assistant Treasury Secretary Paul Craig Roberts told Sputnik.
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Vladimir Putin, Russia's current head of state, has emerged victorious in the country's 2024 presidential election by securing more than 80% of the votes.
Vladimir Putin's victory will ensure Russia's economic rise and military-technical development amid the ongoing global geopolitical shift, Sputnik's interlocutors said, commenting on the presidential election outcome.
A distinguishing feature of Vladimir Putin's presidency is unconditional support to the Global South, Dr. Anuradha Chenoy, a retired professor at the Center for Russian and Central Asian Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, told Sputnik.
Presidential candidate and Russia's incumbent head of state Vladimir Putin said he would like to thank citizens of Russia who went to polling stations and voted in the presidential election this weekend.
