Putin orders states shake-up
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Russian President Vladimir Putin announces a radical overhaul of state bodies in response to recent attacks.
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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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President Vladimir Putin ordered a crackdown in southern Russia after a school siege killed at least 250, and warned Chechen sympathisers on Saturday they would be seen as "accomplices of terrorism."
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Russian President Vladimir Putin called  on Thursday for a powerful parliament and unchanged policies  after he leaves the Kremlin in remarks hinting he may go on to  use a power base in parliament to dominate the country.
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MOSCOW , Sep 13 (MASNET &amp; News Agencies) - President Vladimir Putin announced steps to tighten Kremlin control over Russia &#39;s regions and called for &quot;radical&quot; moves to improve security in the north Caucasus after the Beslan school hostage tragedy.
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Russian papers voices alarm at President Putin's plans to overhaul the power structure in response to Beslan.
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President Vladimir Putin ordered  sweeping changes to Russia's political system on Monday to help  combat terrorism, but immediately drew accusations of  exploiting this month's bloody school siege to boost his power.
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Russia&#39;s Parliament has overwhelmingly approved President Vladimir Putin&#39;s plan to reinforce control over Russia by replacing popular elections of regional leaders with a central selection process.
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Russian president, Vladimir Putin, dissolves government in lead-up to parliamentary and presidential elections
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VLADIMIR Putin, the Russian president, yesterday used his end-of-year press conference to accuse western states of attempting to isolate and destabilise his country.
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President Vladimir Putin stepped up Kremlin control over Russia's regions and called for moves to improve security in the north Caucasus as he appointed a mew government chief of staff after the Beslan school hostage tragedy.
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President Vladimir Putin named a new government Monday, tapping new economics and health ministers and retaining his current foreign and defense ministers as part of an expected shuffle before crucial parliamentary and presidential election
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Moscow: President Vladimir Putin stepped up Kremlin control over Russia&#39;s regions Monday and called for moves to improve security in the north Caucasus as he appointed a new government chief of staff after the Beslan school hostage tragedy.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin called on Thursday for a powerful parliament and unchanged policies after he leaves the Kremlin, hinting he may go on to use a power base in parliament to dominate the country.
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The Russian Parliament has passed a bill proposing a radical overhaul in the way Russia is run. The measure abolishes the direct election of regional governors, who will now be appointed by the Kremlin.
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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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President Vladimir Putin named a new government Monday, tapping new economics and health ministers and retaining his current foreign and defense ministers as part of an expected shuffle before crucial parliamentary and presidential elections.