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1 Russian President Vladimir Putin appears on a screen in a hall at the World Trade Centre s congress centre as he holds his annual press conference via a video link from the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence, in Moscow
MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin on Thursday expressed hope that incoming US President Joe Biden would present an opportunity for improved relations between their two countries, before attacking Western aggression towards Russia.
Speaking at his annual marathon end-of-year press conference, Putin began by striking a conciliatory tone towards Western countries, with which Russia has seen its relations in recent years reach its lowest point since the end of the Cold War.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has dismissed as a trick a joint media investigation that blamed Russian state agents for poisoning his arch-critic, Alexei Navalny.
He accused Mr Navalny of receiving help from the US secret services.
Mr Navalny narrowly survived the August poisoning, spending weeks in intensive care in a Berlin hospital.
Agents in Russia s Federal Security Service (FSB) were named by Bellingcat and other media investigators.
Western specialists established that a type of Russian Novichok nerve agent had been used in the attack - an agent that could only have come from a state facility.
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