Putin Signs Law on Restricting Beer Ads
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President Vladimir Putin signed into law a series of tough new restrictions on beer ads, a measure that lawmakers said should help reduce youth drinking and hooliganism.
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MOSCOW, Sep 11 (IPS) - A presidential decree allowing political parties to  engage officially in public campaigns for parliamentary elections  has come into effect, but opposition parties fear they may not  get adequate access to media coverage.
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President Vladimir Putin pledged on Thursday to give Russians a "free democratic choice" in presidential elections next year and said he would only express his own preferences during the campaign.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin announced initiatives Monday that would further strengthen the central government's control over the nation's political life.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed into law a bill dropping a minimal turnout threshold in polls, which critics say will make them less fair, despite a plea by his human rights adviser not to do so.
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Portraying it as a means of combating terrorism, Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday outlined a plan to eliminate popular elections of governors and individual
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MOSCOW - Russia's lower house of parliament passed legislation that would make it illegal to drink beer in public, news reports said Thursday.
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MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed a number of anti-terrorism initiatives that would ultimately give the Kremlin greater power over everyday life.
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Russia&#39;s upper house of parliament on Wednesday passed a tougher version of a bill controlling public beer sales and consumption after rejecting the original last month.
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President Vladimir Putin signed a decree Sunday setting Dec. 2 as the date for Russia's next parliamentary vote &#151; an election seen as key to addressing growing doubts about the fairness of Russian democracy.
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Calling the nurturing of the technology industry a high priority, President Vladimir Putin orders the government to draft legislation to create special zones where tech companies will receive tax breaks for setting up shop in Russia.
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A $500,000 donation by Republican beer baron Pete Coors to his own Senate campaign has triggered a new federal law that eases fund-raising restrictions for his Democratic opponent.
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Russia's upper house of parliament approved a bill on Wednesday to restrict smoking in public places in one of the world's heaviest smoking nations.
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MOSCOW - The upper house of the Russian parliament on Wednesday rejected a bill that would have banned public beer consumption.  The bill already had been approved by the lower house of parliament, the State Duma, which is dominated by the pro-Kremlin United Russia party.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin looks on during a meeting with the Cabinet in Moscow&#39;s Kremlin, Monday, Dec. 20, 2004. Freedom House, a US-based organization that tracks the progress of political rights and
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MOSCOW -- President Vladimir Putin's plan to end the election of governors by popular vote passed its final hurdle yesterday, when the Russian parliament's upper chamber approved the bill. The law -- part of a package that has been assailed by opposition parties and human rights monitors as an attempt by the Kremlin to strengthen its authority at the expense ...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has  signed into law a bill dropping a minimal turnout threshold in  polls, which critics say will make them less fair, despite a  plea by his human rights adviser not to do so.