Putin Names New Prime Minister
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The nomination of Viktor Zubkov, a relatively obscure cabinet official, took most of Moscow by surprise.
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President Vladimir Putin has announced new measures to strenghten the governments power in tackling the fight against terrorism. In a cabinet meeting today, Putin blamed Russian authorities for being inefficient
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Chairman of the Russian Government Mikhail Fradkov has said that after a new prime minister is appointed in Ukraine, he is ready to discuss plans for economic cooperation between Ukraine and Russia with a newly ...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has  decreed the newly elected State Duma, or lower house of  parliament, will hold its first session on December 24, the  official gazette said on Thursday.
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US magazine Time names Russia's outgoing President, Vladimir Putin, as its 'Person of the Year'.
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President Vladimir Putin has appointed a firebrand nationalist who champions re-armament to counter the West as Russia's permanent representative to NATO, a Kremlin spokeswoman said on Thursday.
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Latvia's president on Friday named  outgoing interior minister Ivars Godmanis as his candidate to  become prime minister, asking the Latvian politician veteran to  form a new government.
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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 on Thursday promoted close ally Sergei Ivanov to the position of first deputy prime minister but replaced him as defense minister in a personnel reshuffle a little more than a year ahead of Russia's presidential elections.
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MOSCOW, Dec. 17 -- President Vladimir Putin said Monday that he would accept the post of prime minister next year if, as is almost certain, his protege is elected president in March.
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Russia's president appointed a virtually unknown technocrat as prime minister. The shake-up, expected to make clear who would succeed Putin, has experts puzzled.
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President Vladimir Putin chose a little-known government official to become Russia's new prime minister Wednesday, a surprise move that set off fevered speculation over whether loyal technocrat Viktor Zubkov was being groomed to replace Putin next spring.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin dismisses the Chechen president, naming PM Ramzan Kadyrov as his successor.
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Russia's First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, foreseen as the next Russian president, accompanied President Vladimir Putin on a highly symbolical visit to Bulgaria this week that attracted strong attention from the media.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin left  his cabinet largely unchanged in a reshuffle on Monday, with  the biggest winner Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, who was  given the additional post of deputy prime minister.
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NAME: Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin
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Russia's defense minister has resigned, the country's new prime minister said Tuesday, announcing the departure of his own son-in-law in the beginning of what is expected to be a Cabinet-wide shake up.