Thu 05 September 2024:

Russia previously wanted Joe Biden to win the U.S. presidential election but now it supports Kamala Harris over Donald Trump, President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday.

Putin had said earlier this year, before Biden withdrew from the race, that he preferred him over Trump because Biden was a more predictable “old school” politician.

Ready for talks

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday he was ready for talks with Ukraine, on the basis of an aborted deal between Moscow’s and Kyiv’s negotiators reached in Istanbul in 2022.

“Are we ready to negotiate with them? We have never refused to do so, but not on the basis of some ephemeral demands, but on the basis of those documents that were agreed and actually initialled in Istanbul,” Putin said at a forum in Vladivostok. Russia has previously said that Kyiv’s incursion into the Kursk region made talks impossible.

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“Selective character”

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday he did not understand France’s actions against Telegram founder Pavel Durov, who was placed under formal investigation there last week.

Putin said the French moves had a “selective character”.

He told an economic forum he met Durov once, years ago, but they had not kept in touch or seen each other since.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said last month that he was not aware of Durov and Putin ever meeting.

France’s investigation into Durov is in connection with the use of the Telegram platform for crimes such as fraud, money laundering and child pornography. Durov’s lawyer has called the proceedings against him absurd.

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