Putin blames West over Ukraine
Russian president says political settlement that gives substantial autonomy to Ukraine’s Russian-speaking east and amnesty to rebel fighters will resolve crisis |||
St Petersburg, Russia – It was two minutes before midnight when Russian President Vladimir Putin finally entered the meeting room in the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library, more than three hours late, to be interviewed by a dozen exhausted journalists. His retinue seemed wearily accustomed to the late-night regimen, but Putin himself – after back-to-back meetings, a speech and an on-stage interview at his annual business conference here in his home town of St Petersburg …read more
Source: Independent Online
