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Most Western powers have been skeptical about the way Russian elections are held and the new government was seen as a body that is under the shadow of Vladimir Putin. Not surprisingly, the Medvedev government, which revealed the future foreign policies...
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A spokesman for Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says he will attend the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics.
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Pity Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. The Washington Post is giving him a nasty case of acid reflux. With any luck, it’ll soon become a bleeding ucler.
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In two devastating news articles last week, the Moscow Times reported stunning new proof of the total failure of dictator Vladimir Putin’s KGB regime.
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Vladimir Putin’s Russia has smashed through the looking glass and is now hurtling into the void of utter neo-Soviet insanity.
The Moscow Times reports that Putin...
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, right, and Chief of the State Electricity Network United Energy Systems Anatoly Chubais speak at a conference over reforms in the power-generation sector in Moscow, Wednesday, June 18, 2008.
