Putin fires North Ossetia interior minister, regional FSB head
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President Vladimir Putin sacked the interior minister of North Ossetia and the regional head of the FSB security service, one week after the massacre at a school in the republic, the Kremlin press service said.
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Vladimir Putin criticises central and local government officials over contentious reforms of Russia's benefits system.
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President Vladimir Putin, accused by former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko of ordering his murder, said the ex-agent knew no official secrets and had no reason to flee Russia.
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Russian papers voices alarm at President Putin's plans to overhaul the power structure in response to Beslan.
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Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma sacked his defense minister on Wednesday for failing to deal with hundreds of thousands of tons of Soviet-era weapons and ammunition that he said threaten the country's ...
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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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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.
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Hundreds of people took to the streets of Beslan on Wednesday to vent anger at Russian President Vladmimir Putin and demand the resignation of regional
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President Vladimir Putin named a new government Monday, tapping new economics and health ministers and retaining his current foreign and defense ministers as part of an expected shuffle before crucial parliamentary and presidential election
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President Vladimir Putin has fired the commander of Russia's navy, taking to at least four the number of top brass dismissed since he appointed a new defense minister, media in Russia reported on Friday.
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The top official in the southern Russian republic of North Ossestia promised that his government would step down amid criticism for its handling of the Beslan school hostage siege, AFP reporters on the scene said.
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THE school siege in North Ossetia is the third clear sign in a week that Vladimir Putin is losing his battle against Chechen terrorism.
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On Monday Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the biggest shake-up of Russia&#39;s political system since its 1993 adoption of a post-Soviet constitution, drawing heaps of scorn from both the Russian and international press.
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Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma has dismissed the heads of three more regions.
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On the second day of national mourning in Russia, President Putin attacked those calling for Russia to enter talks with Chechen separatists and rejected a public inquiry into events that led to 335 people being killed.
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Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma has dismissed the heads of the Zaporizhia, Mykolaiv and Kherson regional state administrations.
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Peter Hain, the government's Northern Ireland Secretary, said Putin's tenure had been clouded by incidents "including an extremely murky murder of the senior Russian journalist" Anna Politkovskaya.Comment