Putin Takes Different Tack in Ukraine
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President Vladimir Putin visited Ukraine on Friday in an apparent show of support for the country's prime minister ahead of presidential elections pitting him against a West-leaning rival in a tight race.
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The man seems to get his way at home, but President Vladimir Putin's none-too-subtle expressions of support for candidates facing elections abroad have raised a few eyebrows in Russia at least.
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President Vladimir Putin used a year-end news conference yesterday to sharply criticize a wide range of US actions and attitudes on Ukraine, Chechnya, Yukos Oil Co., and the issue of democracy within Russia.
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Ukraine's new West-leaning leader Monday  sought to mend fences with Russian President Vladimir Putin,  but even as their talks began he showed his independence by  naming a prime minister regarded with suspicion by Moscow.
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The political crisis in Ukraine has touched off a fresh debate inside the White House and foreign policy offices over how President Bush should handle Russian President Vladimir Putin&#39;s increasingly
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PRESIDENT PUTIN faced the most serious foreign policy crisis of his five-year rule last night after the Kremlin s efforts to install a pro-Russian leader in Ukraine were left in tatters.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin&#39;s defiant stance on issues ranging from missile defence to the killing of a former Russian agent in London threatens to overshadow this week&#39;s G8 summit.
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Whatever President Vladimir Putin's purpose in choosing a new prime minister, he didn't look far.
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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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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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Russia will use dirty tricks to keep Ukraine within its sphere of influence after the expected victory of West-leaning candidate Viktor Yushchenko in weekend presidential elections, analysts say.
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In a bold slap at the United States and other Western powers, Russian president Vladimir Putin said these countries&#39; statements about the election crisis in the Ukraine could be intended to &quot;destablize his country.
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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 has accused the West of applying "double standards" in democratic elections, including Ukraine's presidential poll.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin is to attend an EU summit despite diplomatic sniping over the  Ukraine crisis.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, who openly backed Viktor Yushchenko&#39;s rival for president of the Ukraine, said in an abrupt reversal Tuesday that he could work with an administration headed by the pro-Western candidate.
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President Vladimir Putin said Russia wants Ukraine to be Ukraine strong and prosperous.