Kasparov won't run for Russian president
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Kremlin critic and former world chess champion Garry Kasparov will not run in Russia's presidential election after authorities repeatedly blocked supporters' efforts to hold a nominating conference, his spokeswoman said Thursday.
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Russia's Central Election Commission bars opposition candidate Mikhail Kasyanov from running for president.
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Russia's most vocal opposition movement, headed by former chess champion Garry Kasparov, demonstrated in a major city on Saturday without police violence or interference for the first time in months of protests.
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Russian officials say there are grounds to bar Mikhail Kasyanov from the presidential race.
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Russia will not extradite possible suspects in the poisoning of former spy Alexander Litvinenko to Britain, the prosecutor general said Tuesday.
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The chief prosecutor said Tuesday Russia would not allow the extradition of possible suspects in the poisoning of a former KGB agent in Britain and he dismissed as "nonsense" allegations by another ex-security officer of a death squad for Kremlin critics.
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Western election observers on Tuesday rejected concessions offered by Russia's presidential election chief and demanded to be allowed to enter the country earlier than the February 20 date suggested by Moscow.
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Russia's top election authority on  Wednesday threw out a call for a people's poll that would clear  the way for President Vladimir Putin to stay on in power,  making it more likely he will step down as he plans in 2008.
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The Russian president rejected the idea of new Ukrainian elections and criticized European efforts to mediate.
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The head of Russia's biggest opposition party is considering dropping out of the race against Kremlin front-runner Dmitry Medvedev to be the next president, a newspaper reported on Wednesday.
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President Vladimir Putin said on Friday  that Russia would not allow itself to be drawn into what he  called a new global arms race.
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MOSCOW, Dec. 26 -- For the second time this month, a leading figure from Russia's opposition has withdrawn from next March's presidential election complaining of a political landscape that has made open competition impossible.
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Russian opposition figure and former chess star Garry Kasparov abandons plans to run for the presidency.
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MOSCOW -- Russia has refused Britain's request to extradite a businessman accused in last year's fatal poisoning of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko, prosecutors said yesterday.
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Russia blocked US and European diplomatic efforts at the latest OSCE meeting for a joint position on a re-run of Ukraine âs presidential election on Tuesday because it would interfere in negotiations there, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
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Russia on Wednesday curtly rejected U.S. criticism of sweeping political changes proposed by President Vladimir Putin, telling Washington to stay out of its business.
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President Vladimir Putin's favored successor is best placed to win Russia's presidential election, a poll showed on Thursday as Putin critic Garry Kasparov pulled out of the contest.