Celeste Wallander: Putin Power Grab
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Description: Russian President Vladimir Putin responds to the school massacre in Beslan by saying he&#39;ll restructure parliament and eliminate the direct election of governors.
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President Vladimir V. Putin's plan to concentrate more power in the Kremlin has inflamed popular discontent.
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Description: Critics suggest Russian President Vladimir Putin&#39;s decision to roll back democratic reforms in his country is an excuse to tighten his grip on power under the guise of fighting terrorism.
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Letter from Moscow: Nobody knows for sure, but the backdrop for the deadly turn Russian politics has taken in recent months is the slow onset of a succession struggle
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President Vladimir Putin during a meeting with Energy Minister Victor hristenko earlier this month. Analysts suggest that the governmentâs action in humbling Yukos and its owner, Mikhail hodorkovsky, is
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In Putinâs Russia Gazprom is by no means a mere natural monopoly, nor a newly established ministry for oil and gas. Gazprom is an instrument of public administration just like the pro-Kremlin United Russia
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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.
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Russia. Putin: la strage di Belsan esige uno Stato diverso. Classe politica del Caucaso debole e penosa. La lotta al terrrorismo &quot;esige una radicale ricostruzione del potere dello Stato nel Paese e della politica&quot; nel Caucaso del Nord.
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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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President Vladimir Putin is widely expected to give up office next year as dictated by the constitution. But will he give up power?
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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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MOSCOW, Jan. 29 -- In mid-January, the publication Kommersant First Rating released the results of its annual poll, in which Russians were asked to name the country's elite in 2007. Heading the list of 200, as in previous years, was President Vladimir Putin, followed by one of the country's most...
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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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The mysterious auctioning off of part of Russia's Yukos oil giant dominates many editorials today. Some papers even point the finger at Russia's President Vladimir Putin.
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MOSCOW, Sep 15 (IPS) - It happened eight years ago when former Russian  leader Boris Yeltsin ousted his cabinet and unexpectedly  catapulted little known Vladimir Putin to the helm of political  affairs.
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BRUSSELS, Oct 25 (IPS) - Encounters between Russian President Vladimir Putin  and European Union leaders can be embarrassing affairs -- at  least for those EU politicians who fret whenever the bloc's  image as a defender of democracy is sullied.
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Moscow -- President Vladimir Putin&#39;s moves to scrap regional elections and reform parliament in the name of fighting terrorism will move Russia closer to authoritarianism without making the country any safer, analysts and liberal politicians say.