At a time when Trump is putting pressure on Ukraine and Russia to end their war, Putin’s gift portrait is also self-serving. "It shows that Putin hopes that Trump can be manipulated by ...

Nikas Safronov, a Russian artist known for celebrity portraits and self-promotion, revealed last week the painting of Donald Trump that Russian President Vladimir Putin commissioned from him as a ...

The president has shown signs of exasperation. But he has never been willing to stand up to his Russian counterpart.

Russian auteur Kirill Serebrennikov, whose latest feature, “The Disappearance of Josef Mengele,” debuts May 20 in the Cannes ...

The details of the portrait – which Putin presented last month to Washington's special ... about which Trump, not normally shy about self-promotion, had been unusually silent. Read more on FRANCE 24 ...

Raoul Peck. US/France 2025. 119mins. The British writer Eric Blair, better known as George Orwell (1903-1950), devised the ...

Before the all-out war in Ukraine, Victory Day, celebrated a day later than VE Day, became a parade not just to honour the ...

Alyona Polyn, 44, heads the so-called Empire of the Strongest Witches and is seen by Ukrainian intelligence as working for ...

Celebrating V-E Day is now tinged with some dread How Putin uses the USSR's victory ... proceed through Moscow’s Red Square holding portraits of their Second World War veteran relatives ...