Putin's candidate Medvedev avoids TV debates
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MOSCOW/BARNAUL  - President Vladimir Putin's chosen successor, Dmitry Medvedev, has refused to meet his rivals for the presidency in live television debates in the run-up to the March 2 election.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair rules out taking part in a televised election debate with his political rivals.
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Russia's President Putin defends controversial reform plans in a TV interview to Russia's main networks.
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Dmitry Medvedev, almost certain to  become the next president of Russia, on Thursday formally made  his application to run in the March 2 election, but admitted he  was nervous at "a tough job" ahead in the Kremlin.
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Ukraine presidential candidates face a TV debate as the electoral commission says it lacks funds for Sunday's poll.
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Guess who's not coming to dinner? Vladimir Putin was not invited to NATO's first summit in a country once incorporated into the Soviet Union, but that did not stop rumors that the Russian leader might show up for a meal anyway.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin made an  unprecedented television appearance in neighboring Ukraine days  before presidential elections, endorsing the record of the  prime minister, one of two top candidates.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday again ruled out running for a third term in the Kremlin and pledged to organize elections for a successor in 2008 "in a proper democratic way."
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The Kremlin front-runner in Russia's  presidential election, Dmitry Medvedev, has the backing of 82  percent of voters with six weeks left before the vote, an  opinion poll published on Wednesday showed.
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Russian opposition figure and former chess star Garry Kasparov abandons plans to run for the presidency.
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MOSCOW, Feb. 1 -- Every Sunday morning, two favorites of President Vladimir Putin play prominent supporting roles on a television game show called "Happy Bus." In sunny clips spliced into the show's airtime, Dmitri Medvedev and Sergei Ivanov hand out awards and urge young people in general to live...
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Guess who's not coming to dinner? Vladimir Putin was not invited to NATO's first summit in a country once incorporated into the Soviet Union, but that did not stop rumors that the Russian leader might show up ...Comment
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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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Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva pulls out of a TV debate with other presidential candidates.
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LONDON: Russian President Vladimir Putin has forcefully ruled out any negotiations with Chechen separatists following the deaths of more than 350 people in a hostage-taking crisis in southern Russia, The Guardian newspaper reported on Tuesday.
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VOLGOGRAD, Russia  - Campaigning officially started on Saturday in the Russian presidential election, but Vladimir Putin's chosen successor has said he is too busy working to canvass for votes.
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Russia's election authorities narrowed  the field of contenders in the 2008 presidential election to  six on Saturday, rejecting a bid by former Soviet dissident  Vladimir Bukovsky because of his British nationality.