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"Putin is now isolated from the world more than he's ever been," US President Joe Biden says during his State of the Union address. SOUNDBITE
Images of the Kremlin in Moscow on the last day of polling in a vote on Russian constitutional reforms that could prolong President Vladimir Putin's hold on power. Putin became prime minister in 1999 under Boris Yeltsin before being elected president in 2000. He served the maximum two consecutive terms between 2000 and 2008 before a four-year stint as prime minister. He returned to the Kremlin in 2012 for a newly expanded six-year mandate and was re-elected in 2018. IMAGES
Finns are on course to re-elect the charismatic and cautious president Sauli Niinisto who is credited for maintaining a balanced relationship with their powerful neighbour Russia at a time of simmering tensions between Moscow and the West. IMAGES
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets his Mongolian counterpart Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh in Ulaanbaatar on his first visit to an International Criminal Court member since it issued a warrant for his arrest last year. IMAGES
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Moscow to discuss what the Russian leader described as an "escalation" in the Middle East. The meeting late Wednesday comes at a time when Russia, which saved Assad's government through its military intervention in 2015 during a civil war, could mediate to defuse tensions between Syria and Turkey. IMAGES
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