Gorbachev criticises US 'empire'
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The former Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, blames the US for the current state of relations between Russia and the West.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin accused  the United States on Thursday of imperialism and starting a new  arms race, but Washington said its ex-Cold War foe&#39;s foreign  policy showed it was behind the times.
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An Amnesty International report criticises the US over its treatment of prisoners during the war on terror.
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Former Russian president Boris Yeltsin indirectly criticises President Putin's decision to increase his powers.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin ridiculed the trial as "utter nonsense." Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev sent a plea to Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates asking him to help spare the defendant from a Siberian prison camp.
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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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ASTANA, Kazakhstan  - Russia curtly told the  United States to stay out of its business Wednesday after U.S.  criticism, echoed by the European Union, of President Vladimir  Putin's plans for radical change that will boost Kremlin power.
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VLADIMIR PUTIN, the Russian President, yesterday poured scorn on the US legal system when he defended the takeover of Yuganskneftegaz, the Yukos oil production
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Ex-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev urges Bill Gates to drop a Microsoft case against a Russian headteacher.
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Bad international relations stop play as America blocks communist nation's debut
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Russian media commentators criticise Britain's request for the extradition of Alexander Litvinenko's alleged poisoner Andrei Lugovoi.
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MUNICH, Germany  - Russian President Vladimir Putin sharply criticized the United States on Saturday for what he said was an attempt to force its will on the world.
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Cuban leader accuses US of spreading disinformation about attacks.
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Russia's foreign minister called U.S. plans to build a global missile defense shield an example of "imperial thinking," and suggested in comments published Thursday that Washington was using the system to try to encircle Russia.
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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 war of words over two British cultural centres in Russia heated up Tuesday with Moscow accusing Britain of "colonial" nostalgia after it refused orders to shut the offices.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a scathing attack on the West on Thursday, accusing Washington of imperialism and of starting a new arms race.