Putin&#39;s reforms are undemocratic says governor
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A Russian governor has become the first to break ranks over Kremlin plans to abolish elected regional heads and replace them with appointees, attacking the proposals as &quot;undemocratic and unconstitutional&quot;.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday he had no plans to grab more power or change the constitution when reforming Russia&#39;s government structure.
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In the wake of the school hostage crisis that killed more than 340 people, Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke Saturday, calling for a new approach to law enforcement and pledged the reform would be in accordance with the nation&#39;s constitution.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has recently said the double standards in dealing with terrorism are &quot;disastrous for global security &quot; and &quot;the indulgent and
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Elections, at home and abroad, are topping Russia s political agenda lately. While President Vladimir Putin is phasing out elections for governor and redesigning elections to parliament, Russia s political ...
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Portraying it as a means of combating terrorism, Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday outlined a plan to eliminate popular elections of governors and individual
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President Vladimir Putin on Friday dismissed suggestions he was taking Russia back to its Soviet past and said he viewed freedom and democracy as key to a stable future.
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Russia will remain on the path of democracy and a market economy, President Vladimir Putin vowed, despite controversial political reforms strengthing central authority over the country.
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The Russian president on Thursday hit out at the flawed privatisations of the early 1990s and argued that the state had every right to make amends by re-nationalising Yukos&#39;s core assets.
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MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin on Monday demanded an overhaul of Russia's political system, including an end to the direct popular election of governors, saying the changes were needed to combat terrorism.    Critics charged the Russian leader was using the bloody outcome of the Beslan school siege to grab more power...
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Russia's President Vladimir Putin on  Friday urged the West to persuade Georgia's leadership to  change its "irresponsible" policies, the Kremlin press service  said in a statement.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said  Monday his government had bungled the implementation of changes  to the country's creaking social security system but stood by  the reform despite week-long protests by pensioners.
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President Vladimir Putin made constitutional changes yesterday designed to increase his personal control of the regions and parliament, saying the government needed &quot;strengthening&quot; because it had failed at Beslan in its fight against terrorism.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin conceded that oligarchs who made their billions in the first hectic days of post-Soviet reform still held a grip over the state despite his efforts to sideline them from power.
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In an address to the countryâs top officials on Monday Russian President Vladimir Putin announced initiatives that would further strengthen the federal centerâs control over political life.
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MOSCOW  - President Vladimir Putin sought to convince the nation Thursday that his electoral reform was not a retreat from democracy but was needed to save Russia from international terrorists and to limit the political influence of business barons. Putin said in a nationwide television interview his plan to end direct elections of regional governors and parliament deputies will help strengthen the government, which he said was being eroded by ethnic divisions and turf battles between local clans.
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The Russian leader today called for new measures that include the naming of regional governors and an overhaul of the electoral system.