G8-RUSSIA:  Dissent Within, Confrontation Without
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany, Jun 5 (IPS) - As if the summit of the eight most industrialised  countries did not have enough problems in fulfilling its own  agenda this week, the group's members are also aligning in a  confrontation along international borders and actions that recall  those of the Cold War.
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A glance at Chechnya and its conflict:
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MAFRA, Portugal - President Vladimir V. Putin yesterday evoked one of the most dangerous confrontations of the Cold War to highlight Russian opposition to a proposed US missile defense system in Europe, comparing it to the Cuban missile crisis of 45 years ago.
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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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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany  - U.S. President George W. Bush criticized Russia on democracy on Tuesday but sought to calm President Vladimir Putin's anger over U.S. missile shield plans on the eve of a G8 summit in Germany.
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Russia is joining the ranks of nascent dictatorships, and Vladimir Putin is the executioner of Russian democracy. Right? Wrong. Russia is not a dictatorship, and the political system Putin is trying to reshape is not a democracy.
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ST PETERSBURG, Russia  - President George W. Bush   arrived in Russia on Friday planning to press President   Vladimir Putin at a weekend G8 summit over concerns the Kremlin   is curbing the rights of the Russian opposition and media.
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NATO led criticism on Monday of President Vladimir Putin's latest attack on a planned U.S. missile shield, but Western reaction was generally muted ahead of a Group of Eight (G8) encounter with Putin this week.
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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.
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ROSTOCK, Germany  - Protesters and police clashed in the northern German port city of Rostock on Monday on a third day of demonstrations against the Group of Eight (G8) summit that will take place nearby later in the week.
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Moscow insists the controversy over oil company Yukos is an internal affair. But western countries, including Germany, have vested interests in the matter.
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In Putinâs Russia Gazprom is by no means a mere natural monopoly, nor a newly established ministry for oil and gas. Gazprom is an instrument of public administration just like the pro-Kremlin United Russia
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany  - Major powers at a G8 summit were deadlocked on Friday over the breakaway Serbian province of Kosovo, with Russia resisting the terms of a French plan to delay a U.N. vote on its independence.
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Ivan Y. Pavlov leads a quiet but dangerous campaign in Russia: legal battles for what he calls, simply, âthe right to know.â
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Russian President Vladimir Putin considers that the British presidency of the G8 and the EU in 2005 opens up new possibilities for cooperation.
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It is not often that you sit down for nearly four hours, until after midnight, with a world leader. It is especially strange when that man is Vladimir Putin, hardly regarded as the most forthcoming of interlocutors.
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Description: Russian President Vladimir Putin recently made sweeping political changes to consolidate his power in the name of a more effective anti-terrorism strategy.