Mikhail Mishustin Archives

Vladimir Putin reappoints Mikhail Mishustin as Russia’s prime minister

Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed the reappointment on Friday of Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, a technocrat who has helped him through the war in Ukraine and the economic challenges wreaked …

End of Japan-Russia nuclear decommissioning pact will make repairing ties more difficult, analysts warn

by Walter Watson

Hirokazu Matsuno, the Japanese chief cabinet secretary, said on Friday that Tokyo had only just learned of the agreement being scrapped. Matsuno said it was “regrettable that such a unilateral …