Vladimir Isachenkov

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An unidentified member of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission in Ukraine gets out of a vehicle next to Alexander Borodai, Prime Minister of the self proclaimed 'Donetsk People's Republic', left, on arrival in the city of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine Saturday, June 28, 2014. Four members of the mission were released by officials of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic after several weeks of captivity. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

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Pro-Russian rebels free 4 OSCE observers

Vladimir Isachenkov · June 28, 2014 7:36 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a ceremony of the presentation of credentials, in the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow, Friday, June 27, 2014. (AP Photo/Yuri Kadobnov, Pool)

Launch of new Russian space rocket aborted

Vladimir Isachenkov · June 27, 2014 6:20 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a news conference after his meeting with Austrian President Heinz Fischer in the Hofburg Palace in Vienna, Austria, Tuesday, June 24, 2014. The Russian President visited Vienna on Tuesday, where he met with the Austrian leadership and officials from the Organization for Security and Co-operation who had helped broker peace talks between Kiev and Moscow. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service)

Ukraine’s cease-fire jeopardized by deadly attack

Vladimir Isachenkov · June 24, 2014 8:52 pm

From left: Belarus President, Alexander Lukashenko, Kazakhstan's President, Nursultan Nazarbayev and Russian President, Vladimir Putin, pose for a photo after they agreed to create the Eurasian Economic Union, an alliance intended to further boost economic and trade ties between the ex-Soviet neighbors in Astana, Kazakhstan, Thursday, May 29, 2014. The new alliance is the development of the Customs Union including the same nations. In addition to free trade, it coordinates the members' financial systems and regulates industrial and agricultural policies along with their labor markets and transport systems. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti Kremlin, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service, Pool)

Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan set up new alliance

Vladimir Isachenkov · May 29, 2014 11:16 am

In this Tuesday, May 20, 2014 photo provided by the Russian Ministry for Emergency Situations for Moscow region, ministry employee uses a mobile phone at the site of train collision near the city of Naro-Fominsk outside Moscow. The Interior Ministry said the accident happened when several cars of a cargo train derailed and hit a passenger train near Naro-Fominsk, a town 50 kilometers (30 miles) southwest of Moscow. (AP Photo/ Ministry for Emergency Situations Press Service)

5 dead, 45 wounded in train collision near Moscow

Vladimir Isachenkov · May 20, 2014 12:44 pm

Pro-Russians rest at a checkpoint outside Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine, Monday, May 19, 2014. Heavy mortar fire outside the eastern Ukrainian city of Slovyansk has damaged a large gas pipeline and set off a fire. Slovyansk has been the epicenter of fighting between Ukrainian troops and pro-Russian insurgents, who have seized government buildings across the east. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Putin orders troops near Ukraine to return home

Vladimir Isachenkov · May 19, 2014 7:41 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, meets with representatives of the Crimean Tatar communities in the Bocharov Ruchei residence in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia, Friday, May 16, 2014. From right, acting head of Crimea Sergei Aksyonov, presidential envoy to Crimea Oleg Belaventsev. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)

Putin’s visit to China set to bolster ties

Vladimir Isachenkov · May 19, 2014 7:47 am

Putin says Ukraine must pay cash for gas in June

Vladimir Isachenkov · May 15, 2014 2:53 pm

Ukraine crisis: turning points

Vladimir Isachenkov · April 19, 2014 11:14 am

Russian lawmakers seal annexation of Crimea

Vladimir Isachenkov · March 20, 2014 11:13 am

People rally in support of Crimea joining Russia, with banners and portraits of Russian President Vladimir Putin, reading, "We are together," in Red Square in Moscow on March 18, 2014.

Putin signs treaty to add Crimea to map of Russia

Vladimir Isachenkov · March 18, 2014 6:16 pm

After Crimea, world anxious about next Putin move

Vladimir Isachenkov · March 18, 2014 2:18 pm