Russian President Vladimir Putin says he has a black belt in judo, which, as he likes to say, has taught him an important life lesson—flexibility.

A summary meeting at the newspaper is a spectacle in itself, sometimes funny, sometimes serious, sometimes too complicated, ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin, one of the most powerful men in the world, is in the building. Putin is currently ...

While most Americans have cursory knowledge of Vladimir Putin and his ongoing war with ... Rest reveals little known facts about the former judo champion who rose to power in 2000, and incredibly ...

In his youth Putin was a judo champion in his home city of Leningrad, now called St. Petersburg. In 2008, he starred in a judo video titled: "Let's Learn Judo With Vladimir Putin." In his bid to ...

While Putin has always been "puffing out his bare chest on horseback; fishing shirtless in Siberia; winning staged judo and hockey displays", Ukraine's president Zelenskyy "understands that ...

On the homepage of the IJF on February 27, the group introduced: “Amid the continued battle in Ukraine, the Worldwide Judo Federation has introduced the suspension of Vladimir Putin’s position as ...

Even Vladimir Putin used to acknowledge that those hands were the most ... In many ways, he’s a Putin clone. Putin loves to practise judo, at least when his back is not giving him grief, and the young ...

They chose instead to attend Vladimir Putin’s “Brics” summit in Russia ... weightlifting, boxing, judo and bowls. There will be no triathlon, no rugby sevens, or diving, hockey, cricket ...

International Judo Federation announces that Mr. Vladimir Putin and Mr. Arkady Rotenberg have been removed from all positions held in the International Judo Federation ...