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Vladimir Putin to arrive in Beijing for state visit hot on heels of Trump

Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping shake hands](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/9edfa99a5c72cf1cac8b8d18dcaf310538093171/100_0_3155_2525/master/3155.jpg?width=445&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none) Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping

Russian troops, warships in India soon? Why their new military pact matters

putin](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025-12-05T084808Z_1288280898_RC28AIAS1YPU_RTRMADP_3_INDIA-RUSSIA-1764932333.jpg?w=770&resize=770%2C502&quality=80) Russia’s President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with India’s Prime

Putin says Russia will bolster air defenses in response to Ukrainian drone attacks

Putin replied there was no detailed proof of Moscow's involvement. ![Russian President Vladimir Putin

Xi and Putin meet to reaffirm China-Russia ties days after Trump's visit

Putin meet to reaffirm China-Russia ties days after Trump's visit ![Russian President Vladimir

Putin remains uncompromising on Ukraine, but is public discourse on war changing in Russia?

Putin remains uncompromising on Ukraine, but is public discourse on war changing in Russia? If Vladimir

Tuesday briefing: With unease at home spreading, what next for Russia’s isolated leader?

Vladimir Putin, fourth from right, with foreign leaders.](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/29d27201f94a4bcb88a8be9879bdb4d90aaeb478/120_0_2344_1875/master/2344.jpg?width=445&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none) Russian president Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Putin suggests Ukraine war is ‘coming to an end’

Vladimir Putin suggests Ukraine war is ‘coming to an end’ Vladimir Putin has said he thinks

Xi Jinping prepares to welcome Vladimir Putin to China, four days after hosting Donald Trump

Vladimir Putin to China, four days after hosting Donald Trump Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin

Putin visits China to reaffirm Russia ties

Putin visits China to reaffirm Russia ties ![FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, speaks with

US is being ‘humiliated’ by Iran’s leadership, says Friedrich Merz

Vladimir Putin.](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/e9c204c427edbfaffb12f5ec07377e284f230907/166_0_1449_1160/master/1449.jpg?width=445&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none) Abbas Araghchi and Vladimir Putin in St Petersburg, Russia, on Monday

Same but different: how Xi and China welcomed Trump and Putin

Putin Days after Donald Trump was [greeted in Beijing](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/13/trump-china-summit-xi-jinping-talks) with a military band, an honour guard and dozens of youths waving American and Chinese flags, Vladimir

Armenia’s pro-Europe party wins election and cements shift away from Russia

Vladimir Putin](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/b6e599c9fd95a52068a1dfc03d99fbab330608fd/0_0_4339_2849/master/4339.jpg?width=445&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none) Nikol Pashinyan with Vladimir Putin in Moscow, October 2024, during

Zelenskyy calls for face-to-face negotiations in letter to Putin

Vladimir Putin. The letter, the first public letter Zelenskyy has written directly to Putin since

EU forging closer ties with Armenia as it sends experts to help counter Russian interference

Vladimir Putin walk down a corridor](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/a6c4e2e40bdca8165fe22e75ec4cb10710b456f7/464_0_4616_3695/master/4616.jpg?width=445&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none) Nikol Pashinyan and Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin

Lithuania lifts air alert after suspected drones approaching from Belarus diverted - Europe live

Putin said that [Russia](https://www.theguardian.com/world/russia) and China were committed to “independent and sovereign” foreign policy, as they signed declarations of closer cooperation.** ![Russian president Vladimir

Czech police detain Russian priest over ‘white substance’ find

Vladimir Putin and his war on Ukraine. However, the priest reportedly fell out of favour

Amid Ukraine’s daring assaults, Russia scales back Victory Day celebrations

Vladimir Putin in 2008. Since the start of the full-scale war in 2022, the Victory

Xi Jinping set to meet Kim Jong-un in North Korea, as China seeks to revitalise relationship

Vladimir Putin, [stood side by side](https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2025/sep/06/xi-jinping-vladimir-putin-kim-jong-un-optics-new-world-order) at a massive military parade in Beijing

Putin hails Russia's test launch of a new ballistic missile

Vladimir Putin just days after his claim that the fighting in Ukraine is nearing an end. Putin

Russia declares a truce in Ukraine to mark Victory Day

Vladimir Putin listens to Head of the Republic of Mordovia Artyom Zdunov at the Kremlin