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Putin promises guns and butter in state of the nation speech
Ben Aris in Berlin
Russian President Vladimir Putin gave one of the most aggressive speeches of his career on March 1, promising the population a lot more “butter” and explicitly targeting the USA with “guns” if Washington continued to bully his country with sanctions and threaten it with missiles.
The speech was widely anticipated as the show-
Slaying of journalist sparks Slovak coalition crisis
bne IntelliNews
Pressure is mounting on Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico after the murder of journalist Jan Kuciak, whose posthumously published article alleged mafia infiltration of his government.
Bela Bugar, the head of the junior coalition party Most-Hid, which holds three ministries in
Putin promised to increase the size of the economy by 50% in his next term of office.
case for the likely policies that will dominate
his next six-year presidential term. Russia goes to the polls on March 18 in an election that Putin is expected to win without a significant challenge.
But no-one was expecting the multimedia presen-
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Interior Minister Robert Kalinak has been attacked for his alleged links to controversial businessmen.
Fico’s government, called for the resignation of Interior Minister Robert Kalinak, who has been under fire over a separate tax fraud scandal, the Basternak affair. Most-Hid argues only a new interior minister can investigate Kuciak’s
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