Powell: Russia Pulling Back on Democratic Reform
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Secretary of State Colin Powell said  on Tuesday he was concerned that sweeping political changes to  fight terrorism proposed by Russian President Vladimir Putin  would erode Russia's democratic reforms.
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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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A U.S.-based organization that tracks the progress of political rights and civil liberties across the world said Monday that Russia had fallen to the status of "not free" &#151; far behind the democratic nations Moscow sees as its peers.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, today accused the United States and the West of encroaching on Russian interests in the post-Soviet space and isolating Russia by adopting double standards of democracy and human rights.
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US Secretary of State Colin Powell has rejected Russian charges that the West is trying to win influence in Ukraine and other former Soviet republics by pushing its own interests in the name of democracy.
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Russia's refusal to cooperate with the West to ensure a fair election in Ukraine signals that Moscow is slipping back to Soviet-style tactics, a senior Polish diplomat was quoted Wednesday as saying.
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A State Department report that said Russia's human rights record has deteriorated in the past year was criticized by the government on Friday as skewed, confrontational and aimed at furthering American political interests.
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The new US secretary of state says Russia must do more to show it is committed to democracy.
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PRAGUE, June 5 -- President Bush declared Tuesday that Russia has "derailed" democratic reforms and that the United States would continue to press it on this issue. The remarks, his most pointed public comments about civil liberties in Russia, came at a time of heightened tensions with Moscow.
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Russia rejected on Wednesday U.S. criticism of sweeping political changes proposed by President Vladimir Putin, saying this was a matter strictly for Moscow to decide.
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MOSCOW -- Russia has restricted rights to such an extent that it has joined the countries that are ''not free" for the first time since the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union, Freedom House said yesterday, marking Moscow's march away from the Western democracies it has embraced as diplomatic partners.
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Moscow, Dec 23 (PTI) Russian President Vladimir Putin today accused the United States and the West of encroaching on Russian interests in the post-Soviet space and isolating Russia by adopting double standards of democracy and human rights.
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Secretary of State Colin L. Powell dived into an unusually rancorous rhetorical battle with Russian leaders over Ukraine and regional politics today, denying Russian
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US President George W. Bush on Wednesday delivered a rare public rebuke to President Vladimir Putin, warning that he risked undermining democracy in Russia by centralising power.
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Reveling in the apparent election of a pro-Western president in Ukraine, the Bush administration on Monday urged Russia to join with the United States in helping the former Soviet republic. "Let's all join together now and see what we can do," Secretary of State Colin Powell said.
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President Bush on Wednesday urged  Russian President Vladimir Putin to "uphold the principles of  democracy" in a carefully worded message expressing concern  about Putin's proposed political reforms.
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ASTANA, Kazakhstan  - Russia curtly told the  United States to stay out of its business Wednesday after U.S.  criticism, echoed by the European Union, of President Vladimir  Putin's plans for radical change that will boost Kremlin power.