Russia&#39;s new czar?
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Russian President Vladimir Putin barely left time for the funerals before cynically exploiting the deaths of more than 300 children and adults.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin&#39;s sweeping overhaul of Russia&#39;s political system would consolidate power in the Kremlin at the expense of provincial governments and end Russia&#39;s short experiment with political democracy.
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The charges opened a new line of legal attack against a Kremlin foe who was once regarded as Russiaâs richest man.
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Is Russia giving up on democracy? Russian President Vladimir Putin certainly seems to be suggesting that possibility. He introduced a plan that would restrict elections in Russia and would &quot;radically restructure
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HAMISH ROBERTSON: But first to Moscow where the future of Russia&#39;s largest oil company, Yukos, isn&#39;t looking too bright this weekend.
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Analysis: He may not really be a global power player, but Russia's president got to play one on TV
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The question used to be &quot;Who lost Russia?&quot; In a few years, it may be &quot;Who rebuilt the Soviet empire?&quot;. Ukraine&#39;s presidential election on Sunday could determine whether Russia remains a national state or begins to resurrect its empire.
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NAME: Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin
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Germans are gaga over Barack Obama. He's got Japan pretty jazzed, too, along with Hillary Rodham Clinton. Russia's leaders, not so much: They prefer a Republican Â as long as it's not Kremlin critic John McCain.
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We have long maintained ambivalence toward Russian President Vladimir Putin. On the one hand, he is trying to pull his backward nation out of decades of communism-spawned doldrums to a take a leading place in the democratic world.
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President Vladimir Putin appears unlikely to be confronted by a Ukrainian-style revolution in Russia as a whole anytime soon, but he may face something almost as troubling -- the possibility of "an amber ...
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Russian president willing to take on role if Dmitry Medvedev is elected to succeed him as president
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The Russian government&#39;s fascination with appearances has a long history. Be it Potemkin villages, political show trials, or rigged privatizations, government fixers have always had a flair for deception.
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The Kremlin's candidate for president is equal parts shrewd lawyer, loyal aide and government technocrat. What Dmitry Medvedev has never been is a political leader.
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Recent developments in Russia all point in one direction: The Kremlin&#39;s energy sector policy has shifted to more aggressive efforts of direct control.
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MOSCOW, Aug. 29 -- The powerful and pro-Kremlin United Russia party has a new opponent -- one, however, that bears all the marks of a Kremlin creation.
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MOSCOW -- They are an odd trio: a chess grandmaster, a flamboyantly controversial radical and a suave former insider. Together they have embarked on a political quest that seems not merely quixotic but hopelessly so: regime change in Russia.