VLADIMIR PUTIN

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

Maria Butina clutched bouquets of flowers and exclaimed that "Russians don't surrender" as she arrived in Moscow on Saturday after serving nine months in a US jail for acting as a Russian government agent.Butina flew into Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport after being deported from Miami following her release on Friday, AFP journalists said. She had been held in Florida's Tallahassee prison."I didn't give up because I know I simply didn't have the right," Butina told a waiting crowd of journalists. "Russians don't surrender!"

Upon returning home from Japan, Duterte met with doctors who ruled out any surgical procedures.

Russia is showing off its next generation Kalashnikov assault rifles, helicopters and facial recognition systems as President Vladimir Putin hosts dozens of African leaders for a major summit in Sochi.The Wednesday and Thursday event at the Black Sea resort has brought together delegates to discuss everything from nuclear technology to mineral extraction -- but on the sidelines, stands for arms companies dominate.

Mass protests in Santiago, Chile raised questions about an upcoming Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit, but the government says it will be held on schedule November 16-17

Ethiopia's Grand Renaissance Dam is set to be Africa's largest when it is completed

Trump said sanctions against Turkey for its incursion into Syria will be lifted -- as long as Turkey upholds promises to protect the rights of different ethnic and religious groups.

Russia's trade with Africa currently is less than half that of France with the continent, and 10 times less than that of China -- Russia leads only in terms of arms sales

Syrian Kurdish fighters raise their flag in March after overrunning the last vestige of the Islamic Strate group's "caliphate" in a US-backed offensive they had hoped would earn them Western support for their dreams of self-rule

Russia has also exerted soft power in the CAR. Kremlin funding resurrected the Miss Central African Republic beauty pageant after a three-year break

The couple's business has helped by them become social media stars

All 54 African states are sending a representative to the event in Russia's Sochi

Russia and Turkey have agreed to ensure Kurdish forces withdraw from areas close to Syria's border with Turkey and to launch joint patrols, in a deal hailed as "historic" by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.After marathon talks in Russia's southern city of Sochi, Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin announced the deal late Tuesday just hours ahead of a deadline for Turkey to restart its assault on Syrian Kurdish forces.

Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan (L) hailed "a historic agreement" on dealing with the Kurds in Syria following talks with Russia's Vladimir Putin at the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi