Is Putin able to speak English?

President Putin speaks good enough English seeing that he is Russian. Most Russians would think as an alien language. But Vlad is a former KGB agent who definitely had to learn English, French as a rule. read more

Putin’s English, seldom heard by western audiences, is good enough to correct his translators, according to the man hired to speak on Putin’s behalf. “In free discourse, at the sidelines of summits, he often speaks in English by himself,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the state-run Rossiya 1 television channel on Monday, talking about how Putin approached other leaders at the G20 summit. read more