All news on the topic: Vladimir Putin

Anastasia Volochkova was sacked by the Bolshoi Ballet for being “too fat”, before she took her former employers to court and won a battle forcing them to reinstate her

Concerns have been raised about Vladimir Putin's decision to relocate his ex wife and their two adult daughters to a "Tsar's village" close to his palace after a drone attack pummelled an area extremely close to his residence in Moscow

For decades, Vera Putina has claimed that Putin was her son, who was conceived during an affair with a married man, something that he’s completely denied

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg claimed the Kremlin leader believed the West would soon tire of backing President Volodymyr Zelensky's regime, but added: “Putin cannot wait us out"

WARNING UPSETTING CONTENT: The grandmother was pictured distraught over the body of her daughter, next to a clinic in Ukraine's capital Kyiv that was damaged during today's attack

Dmitry Medvedev - now deputy chairman of Vladimir Putin's security council - branded Britain an "eternal enemy" of the Russian state and said officials are a "legitimate military target"

Vladimir Putin's pre-dawn air raid on Kyiv sent residents again dashing for shelters - one person died after debris hit a residential building and 34 others were injured, reports say

Footage shows an explosion in a Moscow suburb from a drone attack on the Russian capital with several apartment blocks hit while Kyiv was also targeted in a pre-dawn air raid

Darya Ulyanova, 26, was left in hospital with "severe lacerations" after one of the world's biggest tigers attacked her while she was going to the toilet in a bush in Ussuriysk, in Russia's Far East

Alexander Lukashenko's opponent Valery Tsepkalo, has saif that the Putin ally was taken to hospital and is now in a critical condition

Moscow's man in London repeatedly clashed with BBC presenter Laura Kuenssberg as she grilled him about his country's invasion of Ukraine

A top war chief has revealed that an assault to regain territory from President Vladimir Putin’s occupying forces in Ukraine could commence very soon

Retired Lieutenant General Ben Hodges said the Kremlin needed to face facts in the 21st Century, while a former NATO boss called on the West to reach out to younger Russians

The suspected paedophile, who was identified only by the name Sergei, told the two girls - aged 10 and 12 - that he would use a grenade to blow them up if they refused

Outgoing alliance Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg - and former Norwegian Prime Minister - is preparing to host the organisation's annual leaders' summit in Lithuania this summer

The Prime Minister tried to shrug off responsibility for the decision over how money is spent, saying: "My job is not to second guess the decision that our military chiefs are making"

Albert Umbetyarov died after being locked in a shed that was shut before going up in flames in Dubovaya Roshcha, Moscow region. He was allegedly killed after a dispute with other kids

Kyiv sources are claiming that more than 100,000 soldiers have been killed battling for Bakhmut and that Ukraine’s soldiers will encircle them in the coming weeks

Joe Biden told Volodymyr Zelensky and other fellow world leaders at the G7 summit that the United States are "not going anywhere" as Vladimir Putin's bloody war continues

Former KGB and security boss Nikolai Patrushev told of a 'radioactive cloud' drifting across Europe after Russian strikes hit a uranium supply - the claim has since been debunked as propaganda

Vadim Tekhov killed his ex-wife Regina Gagieva, 22, and the brutal attack was filmed on CCTV, leaving Russia shocked. But after fighting in Ukraine, the murderer has been pardoned by Vladimir Putin

G7 leaders including Rishi Sunak and Joe Biden will promise to work together in the face of aggressive behaviour, such as Vladimir Putin's threat to shut off gas supplies

Russian President Vladimir Putin gave a deranged speech at the Council for Interethnic Relations during which he contradicted himself and his "halfwits" joke fell flat

The Gelendzhik Palace is warmonger Putin's £1 billion palace hideaway in southern Russia - complete with its own church, ice rink, casino and hookah lounge

The Dzhurayev family moved to Russia from Tajikistan in the early 2010s and officially renamed their son when he was one-and-a-half years old to Rasul Putin