Putin orders banking cleanup after banker's murder
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President Vladimir Putin called on   Friday for urgent action to stem the flow of billions of   undeclared roubles through Russia's flawed banking system after   the murder of a top banker who waged a war on money laundering.
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President Vladimir Putin ordered  sweeping changes to Russia's political system on Monday to help  combat terrorism, but immediately drew accusations of  exploiting this month's bloody school siege to boost his power.
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Former spy Alexander Litvinenko has blamed Russian President Vladimir Putin for his death in a posthumous letter, condemning him for what he had done to &quot;beloved Russia and its people.&quot;
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The Russian prosecutor general's office has said it had completed a joint inquiry with visiting British detectives into the poisoning death of former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko.
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BESLAN, Russia  - Russian President Vladimir Putin  ordered a clampdown in the Caucasus on Saturday after a hostage  seizure at a school by Chechen separatists ended in a bloodbath  with 322 people killed, half of them children.
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BESLAN, Russia  - Russian President Vladimir Putin  on Saturday demanded a drastic shakeup of security forces'  tactics against terror after the seizure of a school by Chechen  militants ended in chaos and bloodshed.
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President Vladimir Putin on Monday  ordered sweeping changes to Russia's political system to boost  the Kremlin's powers in "the fight against terrorism."
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Â· Women had accused Putin of complicity in deaths Â· Kremlin 'using extremism law to silence critics'
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The prosecutor of Russia's Volga region of Saratov was killed overnight and police believe his murder could be linked to his anti-corruption drive, Russian media reported on Thursday.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced a series of measures to strengthen central state powers following the hostage-taking at Beslan when more than 300 people died.
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President Vladimir Putin has agreed to a parliamentary investigation in an apparent response to public criticism over last week&#39;s deadly school hostage siege.
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Ex-KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of his murder from beyond the grave on Friday, in a statement read out the morning after he died of an unknown poison in a London hospital.
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Business & money: Â· Former Rusneft chief says Kremlin bullied him outÂ· Warrant issued days after mysterious death of son
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President Vladimir Putin, accused by former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko of ordering his murder, said the ex-agent knew no official secrets and had no reason to flee Russia.
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A British government minister on Sunday condemned "murky murders" clouding President Vladimir Putin's Russia as media reports said police would go to Moscow and Rome to probe the radiation death of an ex-KGB spy.
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SOCHI, August 22 (Itar-Tass) - Russian President Vladimir Putin called on the Chechen leadership to pay unflagging attention to paying compensations for lost housing.
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Russia has received an extradition request from Britain for an ex-KGB agent wanted in the murder of Alexander Litvinenko, Interfax quoted a spokesperson for the prosecutor general as saying Monday.