Putin Sees âReal Choiceâ in Election
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President Vladimir V. Putin added fresh uncertainty today into the question of who might succeed him.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin stood  beside Ukraine's pro-Moscow presidential hopeful to review a  Soviet-style military spectacle, just days before a tense vote  seen as a choice between closer ties with Russia or the West.
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Russia holds regional polls on Sunday  viewed as a dress rehearsal for this year's parliamentary vote  and a 2008 presidential election, with a liberal party  sidelined and the Kremlin expected to tighten its grip on  power.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin says he will work with whoever is elected by the people of Ukraine to lead the country. Only days after mocking a call for a new presidential
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has taken part in a live phone-in on Ukrainian TV, just days before the country's presidential election.
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President Vladimir Putin pledged on  Thursday to give Russians a "free democratic choice" in next  year's presidential election and said he would express his own  preferences during the campaign.
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MOSCOW, Dec. 17 -- President Vladimir Putin said Monday that he would accept the post of prime minister next year if, as is almost certain, his protege is elected president in March.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin stood beside Ukraine's pro-Moscow presidential hopeful to review a Soviet-style military spectacle, just days before a tense vote seen as a choice between closer ties with Russia or the West.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday again ruled out running for a third term in the Kremlin and pledged to organize elections for a successor in 2008 "in a proper democratic way."
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President Vladimir Putin sought to convince the nation Thursday that his electoral reform was not a retreat from democracy but was needed to save Russia from international terrorists and to limit the political influence of business barons.
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Russia is poised for a general election campaign highly influenced by President Putin's popularity, Steven Eke writes.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday set December 2 as the date for parliamentary elections, seen as a dress rehearsal for the 2008 presidential vote.
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MOSCOW -- President Vladimir Putin seems to quietly delight in stoking the fevered speculation about who will succeed him when he steps down, as he has promised to do, following presidential elections in March.
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President Vladimir Putin nominated close political ally Dmitry Medvedev as his party's presidential candidate on Monday and said he was ready to serve as prime minister in a Medvedev administration.
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Before the tragedy of Beslan, Vladimir Putin lived in a vibrant young democracy. Voters gave a Kremlin-backed party an overwhelming mandate in parliamentary elections in December, and
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Vladimir Putin says he does not rule out running for Russia's presidency again in 2012 or 2016.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, in his first public comment on the dramatic Ukrainian presidential election that the Kremlin-favored candidate lost, said Friday he hopes that the country will move from ...