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(age 59) 7 May 2008 – 7 May 2012 (4 years, 0 days) 5 : First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia (2005–2008) Vladimir Putin: Vladimir Putin Владимир Путин Born 1952 (age 72) 7 May 2012 – Present (12 years, 299 days) 6 : Prime Minister of Russia (2008–2012) Viktor Zubkov: Dmitry Medvedev: 7 : Mikhail Mishustin: 8
Early drafts of the list were leaked and included up to ten countries, [7] but the final list issued by Russia only contained two—the United States and the Czech Republic. [2] In publishing the list, the Russian government restricted the Czech embassy in Russia to hiring no more than 19 Russian nationals, and prohibiting the U.S. embassy in ...
The United States and Russia back opposing sides in the Syrian Civil War, and Washington regarded Moscow as obstructionist regarding its support for the Bashar al-Assad government. [71] In 2013, for the first time since 1960, the United States cancelled a summit with Russia, after the latter granted asylum to Edward Snowden. [72]
The US government's October 2014 report claimed that Russia had 1,643 nuclear warheads ready to launch (an increase from 1,537 in 2011) – one more than the US, thus overtaking the US for the first time since 2000; both countries' deployed capacity being in violation of the 2010 New START treaty that sets a cap of 1,550 nuclear warheads. [42]
On 12 March, France, the United Kingdom, and Germany cautioned Russia that its demands for economic guarantees with Iran could jeopardize an almost-completed nuclear deal. [ 241 ] On 17 March, the United Kingdom said it had "very, very strong evidence" of war crimes in Ukraine, and that Russian President Vladimir Putin was orchestrating them.
"Russia is the global enemy. That doesn't end quickly," she said, pessimistically envisioning "another 100 years of us being villains of the universe." On Friday, ...
In August 2008, United States-Russia bilateral relations became further strained, when Russia and Georgia fought a five-day war over the Russian-backed self-proclaimed republics of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. President Bush said to Russia, "Bullying and intimidation are not acceptable ways to conduct foreign policy in the 21st century." [79]
The United States, the United Kingdom, and Spain advocated a resolution declaring Iraq in non-compliance with the inspections but were opposed by France, Germany, and Russia. The United States instead decided to act outside of the United Nations framework to assemble a "coalition of the willing" and delivered a 48-hour ultimatum to Saddam to ...