Vladimir Putin

Biden Administration Wants to Expand Pacific ‘Quad’ Relationship, National Security Advisor Sullivan Says

Ships from the Royal Australian Navy, Indian Navy, Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force, and the United States Navy participate in Malabar 2020 on Nov. 17, 2020. US Navy Photo

Transforming a loose network of U.S. allies in the Pacific into something more than an informal security relationship between four Indo-Pacific democracies is a goal for the Biden administration, its new national security advisor said Friday.

Speaking Friday at a United States Institute for Peace online forum, Jake Sullivan...

https://news.usni.org/2021/01/29/biden-administration-wants-to-expand-pacific-quad-relationship-national-security-advisor-sullivan-says

Putin: Russian Far East to help promote open cooperation in Asia-Pacific region

Russia will continue to implement plans for the development of its Far East to continue its growth and contribute to enhancing trust and cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday, September 5.

“We are proud that the Far East has become today one of the symbols of the openness of the whole country, innovation and determination in removing all kinds of barriers for business and just human communication,” Putin said at a plenary session at the fifth...

https://container-news.com/russian-far-east-asia-pacific-region-putin/

Putin Pledges Russian Response to U.S. Cruise Missile Test

Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2017. Kremlin Photo

Russia pledged a response to a Sunday test of a U.S. ground-based cruise missile the Pentagon conducted two weeks after the expiration of the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty in early August.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said, following a Helsinki meeting with Finnish President Sauli Niinistö, the speed of which the U.S. tested a modified Tomahawk Land Attack Missile indicated the Defense Department had been working on the system...

https://news.usni.org/2019/08/21/putin-pledges-russian-response-to-u-s-cruise-missile-test

Panel: Russia Will Reap Benefits from Iranian Oil Crackdown

Undated photo of Russian president Vladimir Putin. Kremlin Photo

Vladimir Putin could turn out to be the big winner economically and diplomatically if the United States sticks to its pledge of no more sanction waivers for countries buying Iranian oil, a leading expert on the Middle East said on Monday.

With reduced choices of where to buy oil, China, Turkey, South Korea, Japan and others who had been granted waivers that end this week may soon be buying from Putin’s Russia, Michael Pregent,...

https://news.usni.org/2019/05/01/panel-russia-will-reap-benefits-from-iranian-oil-crackdown

China Sent Uninvited Spy Ship to Russian Vostok 2018 Exercise Alongside Troops, Tanks

An undated photo of Dongdiao-class auxiliary general intelligence (AGI) Tianwangxing (852).

Russia recently concluded the 2018 edition of the massive Vostok exercise series that included Chinese forces for the first time. At Moscow’s invitation, Beijing sent People’s Liberation Army soldiers, helicopters, tanks – and one uninvited Chinese surveillance ship.

A PLA Navy Dongdiao-class auxiliary general intelligence (AGI) shadowed Russian Navy assets for the length of the at-sea portion of the...

https://news.usni.org/2018/09/17/china-sent-uninvited-spy-ship-russian-vostok-2018-exercise-alongside-troops-tanks

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