In recent years Putin has frequently visited Stalin-designed Bocharov Ruchey palace overlooking the Black Sea in Sochi. He ...

Russian President, Vladimir Putin, has demolished his Sochi residence, citing concerns about frequent drone attacks. The ...

Vladimir Putin has not been seen or heard from officially since he made World War Three threats to the West but his secret ...

However, Sochi is not just any secret retreat ... It was only 10 years ago that Putin had the state palace extensively renovated and extended. A new port facility was subsequently added, and ...

Angela Merkel's memoir, “Freedom,” offers a matter-of-fact account of her early life in communist East Germany and her later ...

In response Putin has banned protests and rallies in Sochi during the games. A resort town along the Black Sea’s beaches, Sochi drew the wealthy under Tsar Nicholas II, then Soviet leaders and ...

New proof of Putin’s palace emerged after a leak from exercise app Strava (Credit: east2west news/Shutterstock) A data leak through the Strava exercise app has shed new light on Vladimir Putin ...

BOMBSHELL new "proof" has emerged that Vladimir Putin does own a spectacular £1 billion clifftop Black Sea palace. Compared to the lair of a James Bond villain, it includes a throne for the ...

Yet Putin, 72, has not been definitively seen since an appearance at the Valdai Forum in Sochi on November 7 when he congratulated a "courageous" Donald Trump on his election victory and hinted he ...

He turned out to be a brave man," Putin said at an international forum following a speech in the Black Sea resort of Sochi. "He manifested himself in the very correct way, bravely as a man,” he ...

SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday congratulated Donald Trump on winning the U.S. election, praised him for showing courage when a gunman tried to assassinate ...