VLADIMIR PUTIN

The Russian government plans to allocate nearly 1.7 billion rubles ($26.7 million) towards a Russian online reference resource similar to Wikipedia in the next three years, according to government documents published in September 2019

Malinov travelled to Moscow to attend the televised award ceremony at the Kremlin

The separatist conflict has claimed some 13,000 lives

Gorbachev remains a hate figure with many Russians for allowing the Soviet empire to collapse

Keeping his distance

Alberto Fernandez (right) thanked Cristina Kirchner (left) for giving him the opportunity to run for the presidency, but inists he's no puppet

For Human Rights is led by Lev Ponomaryov, one of the country's most prominent activists

Powerful army chief General Ahmed Gaid Salah has led the push for presidential polls by the end of 2019, which has been rejected by the protest movement

The internet is the country's main forum for political debate and opposing voices as well as coordinating opposition demonstrations

In the Kremlin, Putin has surrounded himself with many former employees of the KGB

Facebook said its profit topped $6 billion on revenue that climbed 28 percent to $17.4 billion in the quarter that ended on September 30, 2019

Orban argued that Hungary's contact with Russia was a win for everyone, including the EU and NATO

Map of Ukraine showing regions controlled by pro-Russian separatists and Crimea, annexed by Russia

A Russian-sponsored disinformation campaign in Africa targeted users of Facebook but also those on Instagram, Twitter and other platforms, researchers said

Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan, seen here in March 2019, has vowed to press Russia on election interference if confirmed as ambassador to Moscow

The networks targeted a number of African countries and were tied to the Russian oligarch indicted for 2016 U.S. presidential election meddling.

Facebook said a disinformation campaign targeting African countries was linked to an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin

US Energy Secretary Rick Perry says the pipeline "would increase Russia's leverage over Europe's foreign policy" while President Trump says it makes Germany "a hostage to Russia"

13,000 people have died since the conflict in eastern Ukraine broke out in 2014

Vladimir Bukovsky, seen here at a Moscow rally in 2007, spent 12 years in Soviet prisons, forced labour camps and psychiatric hospitals

Turkish Foreign Affairs Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu (R) and his German counterpart Heiko Maas give a joint press conference after their meeting