Putin&#39;s Biggest Blunder
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Is Russian President Vladimir V. Putin losing his touch? Once admired for his steely efficiency, Putin suddenly doesn&#39;t seem to be able to get anything right.
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Increasingly, Russian President Vladimir Putin walks alone. He has alarmed the West with authoritarian policies at home. He announced last week that Russia was developing new nuclear missiles. And now he has embraced the official outcome of a Ukrainian election that Western observers say was rigged.
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The last week was marked with a very important event in Russia. It took the state a year to accomplish that: President Putin virtually acknowledged at the press conference in the Kremlin that the main objective
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MOSCOW -- There are many ways history may judge last month's presidential elections in Ukraine, but in Russia these days the reverberations are most often described with a single word that sounds the same in Russian as in English: &quot;fiasco.&quot;
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The spate of terrorist attacks in Russia illustrates that President Vladimir V. Putin&#39;s hard-line policy in Chechnya is failing to resolve that conflict or to make Russians safer.
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Official Motley Fools fess up to their worst financial blunders.
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MOSCOW: Vladimir Putin&#39;s visit to Turkey this week deserves the label of historic. For centuries, Russia and the Ottoman Empire clashed along geographic fault lines.
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Vladimir Putin may not recognize it now, but &quot;losing&quot; Ukraine can mean great gain for Russia. Get all of today&#39;s headlines, or alerts on specific topics.
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MOSCOW : Russian President Vladimir Putin hit out at the West&#39;s &quot;double-standards&quot; amid a Cold-War-style dispute over Ukrainian elections, accusing it of fomenting &quot;permanent revolutions&quot; in Moscow&#39;s backyard.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin&#39;s defiant stance on issues ranging from missile defence to the killing of a former Russian agent in London threatens to overshadow this week&#39;s G8 summit.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin&#39;s sweeping overhaul of Russia&#39;s political system would consolidate power in the Kremlin at the expense of provincial governments and end Russia&#39;s short experiment with political democracy.
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US president intervenes in worst dispute between Russia and the west since end of cold war.
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Europe&#39;s show of unity with Vladimir Putin was shattered yesterday when Russia accused the European Union of &#39;blasphemy&#39; for demanding an explanation of how the Beslan school hostage crisis ended in massacre.
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Presidents George W Bush and Vladimir Putin defrost their relations - but the big issues remain unresolved, says the BBC's Jamie Coomarasamy.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin answers journalists&#39; questions during a news conference in Moscow&#39;s Kremlin, Dec. 23, 2004.
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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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A leading Russian liberal party yesterday assailed President Vladimir Putin&#39;s plan to further tighten control over the nation&#39;s political landscape, saying it violates the constitution.