"I hereby challenge Vladimir Putin to single combat," Musk wrote on March 14. "Stakes are Ukraine." On Thursday's podcast, Musk said, "It was pretty insane for me to challenge Putin to.

The eccentric Tesla Inc CEO on Monday tweeted: "I hereby challenge Vladimir Putin to single combat", with Ukraine as the stakes. Dmitry Rogozin, head of Russia's space agency who in the past had disparaged Musk as a rival space rocket maker, replied the same day by citing a poem referring to a "young little devil, too weak to compete with me". Ramzan Kadyrov, the leader of the Russian region.

An emergency TV and radio broadcast apparently from President Vladimir Putin announcing that Ukraine had invaded Russia was the result of a hacking attack, the Kremlin said Monday. Putin.

An investigation by RFE/RL journalists shows connections between the metallurgical empire of Vladimir Lisin, one of Russia's richest oligarchs, and Russia's military industries. State contracts.

Vladimir Putin's net worth stats. Net worth: $70 billion. Source of wealth: Extortion, theft of state funds, appropriation of companies after the fall of the USSR. Date of birth: October 7, 1952. Place of birth: Leningrad, USSR.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday Ukrainian forces had begun their expected counteroffensive, but that every attempted advance had failed, at a heavy cost in casualties. In response.

Russian President Vladimir Putin says Ukrainian troops have started their long-expected counteroffensive. His comments Friday that Kiev's forces suffered significant losses came just hours after a string of drone strikes inside Russian territory. Such strikes have been exposing vulnerabilities in Russia's air defenses. Kyiv has played down talk of a counteroffensive, reasoning that the less.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is using religion for political purposes, and Patriarch Kirill has instrumentalized the invasion for Russian Orthodoxy’s purposes.

Vladimir Putin, in full Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, (born October 7, 1952, Leningrad, Russia, U.S.S.R. [now St. Petersburg, Russia]), Russian intelligence officer and politician who served as president (1999–2008, 2012– ) of Russia and also was the country’s prime minister (1999, 2008–12).