Silvio Berlusconi

A right-wing alliance, including Berlusconi's Forza Italia party, is widely expected to win Sunday's general election.

As a video of Russia's president waiting uncomfortably for his Turkish counterpart goes viral, Newsweek looks back at Putin's own history of tardiness.

Silvio Berlusconi had a close relationship with Vladimir Putin, which started in the 2000s.

The populist party has taken around 31.6 percent of the vote.

The octogenarian leader of the Forza Italia cannot run for office, but he holds the keys to Italy's political future in Sunday's election.

Berlusconi has been prime minister of Italy four times, heading up the center-right Go Italy Party.

World leaders, designer labels, artists and more unveiled their tributes to Russian President Vladimir Putin for his 65th birthday.

When in power, Silvio Berlusconi was known for salacious sexual allegations against him. This isn't even his first eyebrow-raising comment this year about a world's leader's wife.

The former politician's support for a vegetarian campaign has infuriated the Italian meat industry.

Embattled politico is accused of bribing witnesses to lie about his alleged paid trysts with young women.

An election in one of the EU's most Euroskeptic nations would add to fears of populist uprisings.

Parents could face up to four years in jail over malnutrition risk if draft legislation passes.

The 79-year-old was Italy's prime minister four times.

The ex-Chelsea manager provides an insight into his relationship with Roman Abramovich in his autobiography.

The monarch sits between Silvio Berlusconi and Vladimir Putin in the ex-FIFA president's top 10.

Bernie Ecclestone, Silvio Berlusconi, Steven Seagal and, perhaps, Donald Trump have joined the ranks of Putin's friends.

Frost-Nixon? Hardly. When the going gets tough, the answers dry up.

The former Italian leader was reportedly outlawed from the country to preserve "national security."

Happily for the Kremlin, its primary targets are too small, too close, too corrupt for the West to get worked up about.

Berlusconi denied the charges.

Former PM cleared of paying for sex with minor after being sentenced to seven years imprisonment in 2013.

Berlusconi's petition to have the sentence reduced was filed last month and approved on Monday.

Renzi's Democratic Party and a handful of allies pledged on Thursday to back constitutional court judge Sergio Mattarella.

The Russian president left disgraced ex-PM Berlusconi's house at 3.45am this morning, before returning to talks on the Ukraine crisis at 8am

The billionaire media tycoon and former Italian prime minister is still the most influential politician of Italy's center-right, despite a tax fraud conviction