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On April Fool’s Day, I reported on two more possible additions to the long list of critics of the regime of Russian ruler Vladimir Putin who have been the recipients of violent attacks — a list I laid out in detail for Instablog readers. I only wish my...
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AP, Tbilisi
Vladimir Putin says 19 U.S. poultry producers will be barred from exporting their products to Russia.
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev came to his grandest global meeting yet with a mixed mandate: Start mending ties with the West, but stand fast on policies set by his...
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The veteran chairman of Russia’s most prominent liberal political party has stepped aside after internal disputes about the party’s direction during...
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Vladimir Putin made his first major foray abroad as Russia’s prime minister Thursday, insisting that managing the economy _ rather than ensuring human rights are...
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A competition has been launched to find the “Name of Russia” – one Russian from history who should go down as a national symbol and the nation’s...
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A conspiracy theorist would think that Vladimir Putin was trying to help sales of my book. The thesis that we are entering a new and sinister era in our relations with...
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Let us leave history to the historians. Well if only we could. You can do that if you are discussing German reunification, or the 100 Years War. But when it is the...
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Every new man in the Kremlin enjoys a honeymoon with the West. And in each case that is followed by bitter disillusion: Mikhail Gorbachev caved in to Kremlin hardliners...
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Russia’s new president has promised the kind of democratic change that Washington advocated during predecessor Vladimir Putin’s tenure. At the same time,...
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AP, Kiev
A gloomy Vladimir Putin wears a Czarist crown, clutching a bag full of dollars and a miniature television tower.Filipp Pishchik says this and similar cartoons,...
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Vladimir Putin was named prime minister of Russia Thursday after a fervent speech full of ambitious plans that overshadowed his low-key successor and suggested that he...
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The Kremlin says new President Dmitry Medvedev has nominated his predecessor Vladimir Putin to be prime minister.The announcement came about two hours after Medvedev...
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Dmitry Medvedev has taken the Russian presidential oath of office, succeeding his patron Vladimir Putin.Wednesday’s inauguration ceremony in the Kremlin’s...
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Dmitry Medvedev will replace Putin as the third president of the Russian Federation today with promises to fight corruption and inflation. However, with Putin as Prime...
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Vladimir Socor of the Jamestown Foundation reports that “from April 29 through May 3, Russia sent additional troops to Georgia’s Abkhazia region on the pretense...
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Russia is not required to give freedoms to other religions because Russia is not the United States. People here differ from Americans. I’m not talking about right...
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New twist in the Alexander Litvinenko murder case: after the row between Russia and UK over the murder of former KBG agent, the Russian accused, Andrei Lugovoy, is all...
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