Jude Law is set to portray Russian President Vladimir Putin in the upcoming film The Wizard of the Kremlin, directed by Olivier Assayas. The film explores Putin's early years in power and Law admits to feeling daunted by the role's complexity.

The actor will play the Russian leader in Olivier Assayas' "The Wizard of the Kremlin." From the Skeleton Crew to the KGB: Jude Law is set to play Vladimir Putin in Olivier Assayas' new movie. In a conversation with Deadline,

Jude Law is preparing for what could be the role of a lifetime as a polarizing world leader in an upcoming movie. The Olivier Assayas-helmed film will follow Putin as “he rises to power in post-Soviet Russia,

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that more needed to be done to clean up an oil spill in the Black Sea, saying efforts so far appeared to have been insufficient to deal with the ecological disaster.

Emergency workers toiling to clean up an oil spill in the Black Sea have detected seven new slicks, a Russian official told the TASS state news agency on Friday, as authorities struggle to mitigate the effects of the nearly month-old disaster.