Dissident returns to oppose Putin
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Former Soviet-era dissident Vladimir Bukovsky returns to Russia announcing his intent to confront President Putin.
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Former Russian PM Yegor Gaidar believes enemies of the Russian state tried to poison him.
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It should come as no surprise that Russian President Vladimir Putin has used the horrific terrorist attack in Beslan in southern Russia to justify the consolidation of power in his own hands.
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Once a senior KGB officer who says he  was driven by patriotism, Sergei Tretyakov says he defected in  2000 because he lost faith in post-Soviet Russia and he's now  ready to tell his story for the first time.
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Once a senior KGB officer who says he was driven by patriotism, Sergei Tretyakov says he defected in 2000 because he lost faith in post-Soviet Russia and he's now ready to tell his story for the first time.
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MOSCOW -- The powerful, pro-Kremlin United Russia party has a new opponent, but it bears the marks of a Kremlin creation.
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President Vladimir Putin, who is constitutionally barred from seeking a third term next year, left the door open for a return to the Kremlin in 2012, a Russian newspaper reported Saturday.
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Who looks like President Vladimir  Putin, speaks and moves like Putin -- but is not the man  himself?
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Russian President Vladimir Putin is accusing the West of indulging terrorists. Putin says he faces double standards in the attitude towards terrorism.
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In a cold-war-style rift, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and the West have diametrically opposed views on Ukraine's election.
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Have the news stories that matter most sent to your inbox daily. Russian President Vladimir Putin stripped his top economic adviser an outspoken critic who has accused the Kremlin of trying to muzzle voices of ...
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A new party that promotes itself as an opposition group but supports Vladimir Putin took a prominent place on Russia's political stage Monday after regional elections that further consolidated the president's hold on power.
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PENZA, Russia  - Who looks like President Vladimir Putin, speaks and moves like Putin -- but is not the man himself?
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A businessman whose alleged ties to Russian mafia groups fueled the ouster of Lithuanian President Rolandas Paksas will get his Russian passport back, a court ruled Thursday.
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The race to replace Vladimir Putin officially starts Saturday, but Mr. Putin's handpicked successor has declined to campaign or publicly debate his opponents.
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KHIMKI, Russia, Jan. 15 - Mikhail I. Yermakov, a retired engineer, has never before taken to the streets to protest - not when the Soviet Union collapsed, the wars in Chechnya began, the ruble plummeted in 1998 or President Vladimir V. Putin last year ended his right to choose his governor.
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The Kremlin's candidate has won Chechnya's presidential election but faces an uphill struggle to subdue a resurgence of a separatist rebellion that has frustrated Russian leaders for a decade.