Putin and TIME: The View From Russia
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The Person of the Year choice was greeted with media fanfare and critic complaints. Yuri Zarakhovich appraises the reaction
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IN THE four years since he became Russia&#39;s President after his predecessor Mr Boris Yeltsin bowed out, Mr Vladimir Putin has put an unmistakable stamp of personal authority on the Kremlin.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has steadfastly refused to negotiate with Chechen extremists. But a TIME reconstruction of the events leading up to the slaughter at Beslan&#39;s School No.
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James Rodgers explores Russia's relationship with its stormy history and larger-than-life leaders.
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GROZNY, Russia -- Twelve years after Chechnya sank into a maelstrom of violence, Russia has all but won its war against separatist rebels in the breakaway Muslim republic. Russian President Vladimir Putin's strategy of slowly withdrawing federal forces and relying on a pro-Moscow Chechen strongman to squelch the conflict seems to have worked.
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A glance at Chechnya and its conflict:
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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.
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An Irish model for Chechnya? After five years of war and thousands of Russian army battle casualties, is President Vladimir Putin turning away from pure force and boosting the importance of a political solution ...
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Time Magazine names Russian President Vladimir Putin as its 'Person of the Year'.
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Freedom of speech is one of Russia's major accomplishments in recent 15 years. Now Russian journalists do not have to look back at the Kremlin to have an opportunity to set forth their own views on both home ...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin gives a speech on the Red Square in Moscow, in 2005.Comment
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The presidential election in Chechnya is just days away, but Moscow has already cast its highly influential vote. ULYANOVSK, Russia--Russian President Vladimir Putin unexpectedly dropped
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Analysis: He may not really be a global power player, but Russia's president got to play one on TV
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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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President Vladimir Putin is expected to assert a Russian view of global security sharply at odds with that of the United States, when he speaks at a security conference.
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Vladimir Putin has noted ever wider relations with Finland in all aspects. As our relations are being promoted in all areas, our turnover is likely to approximate 10 billion euros this year, the Russian ...
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NEW YORK, Dec 8 (IPS) - The popular image of Russia in the West today is of   a land of post-Soviet oligarchs, oil company billionaires  languishing in  jail, President Vladimir Putin ruthlessly  centralising his power by  replacing provincial governors, civil  liberties being abused, and, of  course, the 10-year war in  Chechnya with the resulting unthinkable murder  of hundreds of  children in Beslan.