Russia says U.S. democracy criticism is unfair
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Accusations by the United States that Russia has backtracked on democracy are unfair, President Vladimir Putin's top foreign policy aide was quoted as saying two days before Putin meets U.S. President George W. Bush.
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Russia rejects US criticism of plans to strengthen central government control in the wake of the Beslan siege.
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Russia on Wednesday curtly rejected U.S. criticism of sweeping political changes proposed by President Vladimir Putin, telling Washington to stay out of its business.
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The Russian president, incensed by the West's confrontation over the Ukrainian election, has dramatically raised the volume of Kremlin rhetoric, suggesting the United States is acting like a dictator and the West is forcing a flawed vision of democracy on the world.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin  accused the United States on Friday of pursuing a dictatorial  foreign policy and said mounting violence could derail progress  toward bringing peace and democracy to Iraq.
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Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on Thursday condemned the U.S.-led campaign toward war in Iraq as an affront to democracy, saying it undermined international law.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the United States on Friday of pursuing a dictatorial foreign policy and said mounting violence could derail progress toward bringing peace and democracy to Iraq.
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US President George W Bush criticises Russia for "derailing" promised democratic reforms.
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US President George W. Bush on Wednesday delivered a rare public rebuke to President Vladimir Putin, warning that he risked undermining democracy in Russia by centralising power.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice acknowledged Saturday that Russia had recently fallen backward on democracy and democratic reforms, but said that the government of President Vladimir V. Putin would not be ...
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The United States on Thursday criticized Russian proposals that would curtail the activities of international election monitors.
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President Vladimir Putin on Thursday  carped at U.S. criticism of Russia's elections and internal  changes and said the U.S. voting system had its flaws.
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MUNICH, Germany  - Russian President Vladimir Putin harshly criticized the United States and other Western nations on Saturday for what he said was an attempt to force their will on the rest of the world and make it "unipolar".
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President Bush on Wednesday urged  Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to "uphold the principles  of democracy" in a carefully worded message expressing concern  about Putin's proposed political reforms.
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President George W. Bush on Tuesday  criticized Russia and China on democracy, saying the United  States would continue building relationships with those  countries but without abandoning its values.
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A U.S.-based organization that tracks the progress of political rights and civil liberties across the world said Monday that Russia had fallen to the status of "not free" &#151; far behind the democratic nations Moscow sees as its peers.
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A State Department report that said Russia's human rights record has deteriorated in the past year was criticized by the government as aimed at furthering American political interests