vladimir putin is the president of russia right now.
vladimir putin is the president of russia right now.
who is the president of russia right now?
vladimir putin
the plans of georgia and ukraine to become members of nato have caused some tensions between russia and those states. in 2010, ukraine did abandon these plans. putin allegedly declared at a nato-russia summit in 2008 that if ukraine joined nato russia could contend to annex the ukrainian east and crimea. at the summit, he told us president george w. bush that "ukraine is not even a state!" while the following year putin referred to ukraine as "little russia". following the 2014 ukrainian revolution in march 2014, the russian federation annexed crimea. according to putin, this was done because "crimea has always been and remains an inseparable part of russia". after the russian annexion of crimea, he said that ukraine includes "regions of russia's historic south" and "was created on a whim by the bolsheviks". he went on to declare that the february 2014 ousting of ukrainian president viktor yanukovych had been orchestrated by the west as an attempt to weaken russia. "our western partners have crossed a line. they behaved rudely, irresponsibly and unprofessionally," he said, adding that the people who had come to power in ukraine were "nationalists, neo-nazis, russophobes and anti-semites". in a july 2014 speech midst an armed insurgency in eastern ukraine, putin stated he would use russia's "entire arsenal" and "the right of self defence" to protect russian speakers outside russia. with the split of the ukrainian orthodox church from the russian one in 2018, a number of experts came to the conclusion that putin's policy of forceful engagement in post-soviet republics significantly backfired on him, leading to a situation where he "annexed crimea, but lost ukraine", and provoked a much more cautious approach to russia among other post-soviet countries.
vladimir putin
on 22 november 2015, syria′s president bashar assad said that within two months of its air strikes russia had achieved more than the u.s.-led coalition in its fight against islamic state for a year. two days later, the us president barack obama, speaking after a meeting with his french counterpart françois hollande, said: "russia right now is a coalition of two, iran and russia, supporting assad. given russia’s military capabilities and given the influence they have on the assad regime, them cooperating would be enormously helpful in bringing about a resolution of the civil war in syria, and allow us all to refocus our attention on isil. but i think it’s important to remember that you’ve got a global coalition organized. russia is the outlier."
foreign involvement in the syrian civil war