Countries in the region will play an important role in the emerging multipolar world, the president believes Moscow wants Latin America to be “strong, independent and successful,” and wishes to maintain and develop ties with every country in the region, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said.

Kiev’s backers been unable to define what their ‘as long as it takes’ pledges mean, according to Aleksey Danilov The West does not have a clear picture of how the Ukraine conflict will end, Secretary of the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council Aleksey Danilov lamented in a TV interview on Friday.

Moscow and its trade partners should switch to transactions in national currencies, Andrey Kostin believes Russia should abandon the use of the Western-controlled global financial messaging system SWIFT, the head of Russia’s second-largest bank has argued.