Western governments and Russia's exiled opposition should begin laying the groundwork for Russia's democratic transition after President Vladimir Putin eventually leaves office, Vladimir Kara-Murza, a Russian opposition politician,

Russian President Vladimir Putin emphasized the importance of freedom of speech and information in an address to a media summit on Saturday, in comments seen as absurd by critics of his policy of eliminating dissent.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin was joking when he said Moscow was supporting Democratic candidate Kamala Harris in November's U.S. presidential election, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview with Sky News Arabia.

Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov clarified Vladmir Putin’s stance on supporting Vice President Harris in the upcoming presidential election, saying the Russian president was joking. Earlier this month,

Russia’s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, has dismissed President Vladimir Putin’s recent remarks supporting Kamala Harris in America’s presidential race as “a joke.” Putin claimed Harris’s laugh made her preferable to Donald Trump.