The Putin Thread

[Ravenlocke]

RussiaNews 🇷🇺

🚨⚡️ OFFICIALLY CONCLUDED:

Putin arrives at the airport and leaves China after a historic 2-day visit that sealed the Unbreakable Eastern

https://x.com/mog_russEN/status/2057111437680783602

[Ravenlocke]

RussiaNews 🇷🇺

🚨⚡️A candid moment.. Russian President Vladimir Putin takes off his watch during his meeting with Chinese Premier Li Qiang."

https://x.com/mog_russEN/status/2057111643319046405

🚨⚡️A funny spontaneous moment as Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska handed his phone to a reporter for a photo, then started directing him himself:

“Full height, with the feet, and from a low angle… you’re definitely a pro!” 😄

https://x.com/mog_russEN/status/2057188644667134091

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MFA Russia 🇷🇺

🇷🇺🇨🇳 Vladimir #Putin’s visit to China concluded with a tea ceremony hosted by President Xi Jinping.

💬 President Putin: It was a successful, fruitful & intensive day of work. I thank our teams on both Sides, who worked hard to organise today’s meeting.

#RussiaChina

https://x.com/mfa_russia/status/2057189618907259151

MFA Russia 🇷🇺
🇷🇺🇨🇳 President of Russia Vladimir Putin & Premier of the State Council of China Li Qiang met in Beijing (May 20, 2026).

💬 President Putin: We will continue developing trade cooperation in line with the approved long-term strategies.

https://t.me/MFARussia/29966

#RussiaChina

https://x.com/mfa_russia/status/2057147740736422170

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Brian McDonald

Putin today met Pang Pei, now an engineer, who was photographed with him as a child during an earlier visit to China 26 years ago.

The world has changed enormously since then. Back then Russia was politically much closer to the West than to Beijing.

https://x.com/BrianMcDonaldIE/status...29883163771049

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Rybar in English

🇷🇺🇨🇳Visa-free travel, energy, politics
Preliminary results of Vladimir Putin's visit to China

Today, Russian President Vladimir Putin held talks with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing. The sides signed over 40 agreements in various fields and adopted a joint statement on deepening relations.

Key outcomes:
- Agreements on agriculture (including Russian animal feed exports), education, media cooperation, trade and transport.
- Decision to increase capacity of the Zabaykalsk railway crossing by building a second track.
- Extension of the visa-free regime until 2027 to boost tourism and people-to-people exchanges.
- Joint criticism of certain US actions (without direct naming), including the situation around Iran.

The visit confirmed the strategic nature of the partnership. However, sensitive issues such as bank payments and the "Power of Siberia-2" gas pipeline remain unresolved, with negotiations proceeding slowly.

Overall, the visit was productive and packed with meetings, though many concrete deals in energy and industry were likely discussed behind closed doors.

https://x.com/rybar_en/status/2057099189738193243

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Mao Ning 毛宁

President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin together attended the photo exhibition “China-Russia Everlasting Friendship: A Model of Major-Country Relations.”

They recalled with pleasure the moments of friendly exchanges and cooperation between China and Russia in recent years.

The two heads of state noted that the great cause of China-Russia friendship is in line with the prevailing trend of history and of the times. It is unbreakable, and will continue to steadily advance forward and write new, splendid chapters

https://x.com/SpoxCHN_MaoNing/status...91252731228208

https://x.com/mfa_russia/status/2057061274241138738

TASS

Visa-free travel, porcelain set, oil and gas: highlights of Putin's visit to China:
https://vk.cc/cY0caY

https://x.com/tassagency_en/status/2057183130121883767

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Кремлевский пул РИА

@Kremlinpool_RIA


Translated from Russian
That very service from the homeland of the legendary Mao Zedong, which engineer Peng Pai gifted to Putin.

This is the famous Lilin porcelain from Hunan Province. Products from Lilin—the porcelain capital of China—are renowned worldwide. They are often gifted to heads of state.

https://x.com/Kremlinpool_RIA/status...24705673400415

[Ravenlocke]

Putin’s opening speech with English subtitles

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil

🚨Towards Creating a Multipolar World

The talks in Beijing continued in an expanded format

We have just had substantive talks in a restricted format, discussing important bilateral cooperation matters in a friendly and trusting atmosphere, as is our tradition. Now we are going to confer in a wider format

https://x.com/ivan_8848/status/2056996891695431927

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МИД России 🇷🇺

Translated from Russian
🇷🇺🇨🇳 President of Russia V.V.#Putin at the opening ceremony of the Years of Russian-Chinese Cooperation in Education:

💬 Special attention will be paid to breakthrough academic disciplines related to the introduction of innovative technologies.

https://t.me/MID_Russia/82129

#RussiaChina

https://x.com/MID_RF/status/2057036964327506001

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Rai Radio1

Translated from Italian
🔵#Moscow Yume, ‘dream’ in Japanese, was the Akita Inu gifted to Putin by the Japanese prefecture, as thanks for the aid received after the 2011 tsunami. She died at 14 years old last year, but the news was only announced now. She became a symbol in global diplomacy.

https://x.com/Radio1Rai/status/2057098436609008031

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Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸

🇷🇺 "I don't know if Trump is serious or joking. If Russia is a paper tiger, what is NATO then?" — Vladimir Putin.

https://x.com/jacksonhinkle/status/2057491607461720131

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Russia RX

Putin mocking Europe's sanctions:
Son: Why are we freezing?
Dad: We sanctioned Russia to make them feel bad.
Son: Wait... are we Russians then? 🥶😂

https://x.com/Russia_RX24/status/2057234200626114798

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Хорошие новости из России

Translated from Russian
🤝 In 2000, in a Beijing park, young Peng Pai waved to Vladimir Putin. After that meeting, he became popular, learned Russian, and graduated from a Moscow university. 26 years later, they met again, and the President signed that very photo from his childhood for him.

https://x.com/Good_news_Rus/status/2057748301307375653

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Margarita Simonyan

Vladimir Putin at the Eurasian Economic Forum on the dangers, and opportunities, presented by AI:

"It is a very real scenario that millions of people will lose their jobs or be forced to change their occupation. Entire professions may disappear due to the fact that humans will be replaced by computer intelligence. Such processes are irreversible and inevitable."

"Progress does not stand still. We need to be prepared for the coming changes, and even better, use them as a driver of accelerated economic growth."

https://x.com/M_Simonyan/status/2060102605410316566

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RussiaNews 🇷🇺


BREAKING:

President Vladimir Putin UNLEASHES on the West! Breaks his silence for the first time with a brutal, point-by-point takedown over the Romania drone crash, demanding names! 🇷🇴🔥

Putin: "Politicians talk way too much."

Journalist: "No, that’s understood, but what they are saying..."

Putin: "Then why didn't they shoot it down? Why didn't they shoot down this drone, which I don't even understand if it's from Russia, that flew in there?.. Do you hear me? I don't even understand what is being discussed here. Before entering the hall, they told me: 'Do you know that some drone flew into Romania?' I said: 'I don't know.' What drone? Tell me, what information is circulating in the media? That it's ours?"

Journalist: "The drone crashed into a residential building in Romania today, and in Romania, they are saying it's a Russian drone."

Putin: "Who in Romania is saying it's a Russian drone?"

Journalist: "Many in Europe are declaring it."

Putin: "'Many' means nobody. Give me specific names."

Journalist: "Ursula von der Leyen."

Putin: "I don't know, Mrs. von der Leyen wasn't in Romania, and she didn't examine the debris of this drone. No one can determine the origin of any aircraft or drone until a technical expertise and investigation of that aircraft is conducted."

"We know that Ukrainian drones have previously flown into Finland, Poland, and somewhere in the Baltic states. The first reaction was exactly the same as it is now in Romania: 'Help, the Russians are coming, the Russians are striking!' Then, a short time later, it turned out that this had nothing in common with Russian aircraft. Instead, they were drones of Ukrainian origin that lost their course, either under the influence of electronic warfare (EW) systems or for other reasons due to the imperfection of their technical data, causing them to fly in there and crash. And in this case, I think we are most likely dealing with exactly that kind of situation."

Putin concluded: "But if they provide us with some objective data—just as we once passed along information and the remains of drones that tried to strike one of the residences of the President of the Russian Federation to representatives of the U.S. administration for examination... Let them hand it over to us. We will conduct an objective investigation, and only then, in that case, will we give an assessment of what happened."

https://x.com/mog_russEN/status/2060399391618605247

[Ravenlocke]

MFA Russia 🇷🇺

💬 President #Putin on #InternationalChildrensDay:

In a number of countries, traditional family values are effectively being cancelled.

Russia will support those who, faced with such pressure, choose to come here – to live, work & raise their children.

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Welcome to #Russia.


https://x.com/mfa_russia/status/2061486598936510728

[Ravenlocke]

RussiaNews 🇷🇺

A historic event at the Kremlin:

President Vladimir Putin received Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan in the first visit of its kind in 55 years.

Official Russian-Tanzanian talks began with a formal ceremony and the national anthems played in the Georgievsky Hall of the Kremlin Palace.

Putin announced a 25% increase in trade between Russia and Tanzania and praised joint political coordination internationally against hegemony.

Moscow looks forward to Tanzania’s high-level participation in the Russia–Africa summit to deepen partnership across the African continent.

https://x.com/mog_russEN/status/2062195295455510626

MFA Tanzania

H.E Dr. Samia Suluhu Hassan, President of the United Republic of Tanzania, leading the Tanzanian delegation in bilateral talks with H.E Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation, and his delegation at the Kremlin Palace in Moscow on 3 June 2026


https://x.com/mfa_tanzania/status/2062198212140703802

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RussiaNews 🇷🇺

UNUSUAL:

President Vladimir Putin noticed a Tanzanian minister's badge was twisted and personally fixed it!

https://x.com/mog_russEN/status/2062187992387854591

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Brian McDonald

Putin was asked whether he plans to stay in power until 2036:

Journalist: "Mr President, you’ve been running the country for 26 years. Do you plan to stay in office until 2036, as the Constitution seems to allow? And do you think you’ll have the stamina and health to make it that far?"

Putin: "Only God knows whether I, you, or anyone in this room will have the health to live until tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow, never mind solving the tasks before us and reaching the goals we set. That’s the first thing.

"As for my own decisions, yes, the Constitution does allow me to run in 2030. But I think it’s far too early to talk about that. Honestly, much too early."

https://x.com/BrianMcDonaldIE/status...03623280840899