Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin

President Vladimir Putin's regime is more interested in Syria and Ukraine than Sudan said our source and is predicted to be even more obstructive over sanctions more widely blocking much of the UN Sanctions Committee's work...

He travels abroad regularly with Zuma and was one of the few ministers to accompany him to Russia in 2014 to meet President Vladimir Putin...

Meanwhile an early March visit to Algiers by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov led to speculation that Moscow was seeking to make 'mischief' in Libya building on President Vladimir Putin's success in changing the direction of the Syrian conflict...

The dismissal of Nene turned out to be the latest in a series of cabinet appointments made to circumvent resistance to the deal Zuma struck with Russia's President Vladimir Putin last year to build nuclear power plants in South Africa...

27 August 2015: Nene says he will not sign on off on a controversial US$100 billion deal to build nuclear power stations struck between Zuma and Russian President Vladimir Putin if it is unaffordable...

Zuma hopes for a string of nuclear power plants costing upwards of US$100 billion and generating 9 600 MW after a deal he personally negotiated with Russian President Vladimir Putin against strong resistance from opposition parties civil society groups and some senior government officials...

The contract is symptomatic of the growing closeness of President Yoweri Museveni and President Vladimir Putin and their burgeoning strategic relationship...

Russia is no longer the full-blooded red of Mugabe's youth but the unashamedly white of Vladimir Putin...

The conference also adopted a resolution opposing road tolls in Gauteng and criticised Zuma's personal deal with President Vladimir Putin allowing Russia to build up to eight nuclear reactors in South Africa (AC Vol 55 No 19 Nuclear secrets)...

President Jacob Zuma spent a week in Russia in late August and met Russian President Vladimir Putin at his official residence at Novo-Ogarevo just north of Moscow...