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Ben Tavener
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Senior journalist, BBC News Moscow bureau
BREAKING: US envoy Steve Witkoff meeting Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin
August 6, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Russian media showing Steve Witkoff’s motorcade going into the Kremlin:
August 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump’s special envoy, is in Moscow – seen here strolling in Zaryadye Park next to the Kremlin alongside Kirill Dmitriev, Vladimir Putin’s investment envoy.
August 6, 2025 at 8:02 AM
BREAKING: Trump envoy Steve Witkoff starts meeting with Vladimir Putin. The Kremlin has put out this video:
April 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Putin congratulates Trump. Again.
January 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Outside Georgia’s parliament building tonight...
December 1, 2024 at 8:15 PM
Tbilisi earlier tonight… and even now, after 3am, anti-government protesters are continuing to face off with riot police. They’re furious the government here put Georgia’s EU aspirations on ice till at least late 2028. Water cannon, tear gas, rubber bullets deployed on streets of Tbilisi tonight.
November 29, 2024 at 11:33 PM
Here is Nadezhda talking to the press just before cameras were told to vacate the courtroom and the verdict and sentence were rapidly read out. The prosecution had asked for six years.
November 12, 2024 at 3:32 PM