BARACK Obama has hit out a Russian leader Vladimir Putin in a tell-all new book, even as the Kremlin boss refuses to recognise Joe Biden as the US' election winner.
Russian President Vladimir Putin reportedly had a coughing fit during a coronavirus videoconference with top officials, though the Kremlin denied the episode.
Vladimir Putin has said it would be "suicidal" for the Armenian government to back out of a Russian-brokered ceasefire in the war in Nagorno-Karabakh, as opposition forces in Yerevan protest against the week-old truce and call for the resignation of the prime minister, Nikol Pashinyan, the Guardian writes. The deal gave Azerbaijan significant territorial concessions after launching a bloody six-week war.
The Russian parliament's lower house - the Duma - has backed a bill granting Russian presidents and their families immunity from criminal prosecution after they leave office, the BBC reports. The bill increased speculation about Russian president Vladimir Putin's political future. He has been in power since 2000. Putin's fourth term ends in 2024, but recent constitutional amendments allow him to run for two more terms after that.
