Putin&#39;s hard line risks public support he needs
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President Vladimir Putin says he will fight terror by consolidating security agencies and further tightening political control over the country.
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As if to build a tragedy upon a tragedy, Russian President Vladimir Putin has moved to recentralize political power in Moscow in the wake of several terrorist attacks.
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BESLAN, Russia - A shaken President Vladimir Putin made a rare and candid admission of Russian weakness Saturday in the face of an "all-out war" by terrorists after more than 340 people - nearly half of them children - were killed in a hostage-taking at a southern school.    Putin went on national television to tell Russians they must mobilize against terrorism...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin may respond to the recent terrorist attacks, including last week&#39;s Beslan school siege that left at least 333 dead and 260 missing, by overhauling the former Soviet nation&#39;s security forces.
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The government faces a warning today from Robin Cook and a liberal-oriented foundation that it must work harder to reverse the increasingly authoritarian tendencies of Vladimir Putin.
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Admitting plane crashes were terror strikes weakens Putin's tough-guy image
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The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, refused on Monday to order a public inquiry into last week&#39;s siege and massacre at a middle school in the southern town of Beslan
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said Saturday that opposition groups should have more outlets for expressing their views.
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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.
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MOSCOW, December 23 (Itar-Tass) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin believes there is a need for work in shifts in the districts in north of Russia, where the conditions of life are hard.
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Is Russia sliding back into czar-like autocracy, after a brief liberation from Soviet dictatorship? The leaders who ushered in democracy fear so, as President Vladimir Putin pushes to centralize yet more power in his own busy hands.
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President Vladimir Putin appears unlikely to be confronted by a Ukrainian-style revolution in Russia as a whole anytime soon, but he may face something almost as troubling -- the possibility of "an amber ...
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President Vladimir Putin urged the government Thursday to work hard before the March presidential election to ensure a smooth transition if he takes over as prime minister.
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PRESIDENT PUTIN faced the most serious foreign policy crisis of his five-year rule last night after the Kremlin s efforts to install a pro-Russian leader in Ukraine were left in tatters.
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MOSCOW -- Demonstrations across Russia posed a major challenge to President Vladimir Putin yesterday, as authorities bowed to the demands of protesting retirees by restoring some state benefits, such as free public transportation and subsidized medicine.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin called on the worldâs media on today to play a responsible role in the fight against terrorism, and said they could not just be passive observers in the face of terrorist threats.
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Massive demonstrations across Russia posed a major challenge to President Vladimir Putin on Saturday, and Moscow authorities bowed to the demands of protesting retirees by restoring some of their state benefits, such as free public transportation and subsidized medicine.