A Russia less safe and less free
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The terrorists, whose unspeakably malevolent takeover of a Russian schoolhouse resulted in the deaths of 330 children, teachers and parents, have succeeded in at least one respect.
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Chechnya is often called a breakaway republic, but the militant separatists who have harried Russian forces for more than a decade and struck with bold attacks within and beyond the mostly Muslim region's borders are a relatively small segment of a population long tired of bloodshed.
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More than 50 former Soviet dissidents who spent years in prisons and Siberian exile say Russia is in danger of slipping back into a police state under President Vladimir Putin and the former KGB colleagues he has brought to power.
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Some of the international challenges facing Russia's next leader:
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MOSCOW : Russia&#39;s first post-Soviet president Boris Yeltsin issued a veiled warning that President Vladimir Putin&#39;s decision to hand sweeping new powers to the Kremlin in the wake of the Beslan hostage crisis could roll back democratic freedoms.
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MOSCOW -- At the Danilov Monastery in a grubby industrial section of the Russian capital, the knots of believers inside the high walls share a sense of expectation.
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Ivan Y. Pavlov leads a quiet but dangerous campaign in Russia: legal battles for what he calls, simply, âthe right to know.â
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BESLAN, Russia Inside the charred, bullet-pocked wreckage of Middle School No. 1 lies evidence of the terror Russia faces: two parts of the library&#39;s wooden floor had been pried up, evidently by the heavily
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As Russia prepares for March 2 presidential elections, it enters an era of political uncertainty it hasn't seen since President Vladimir Putin succeeded Boris Yeltsin eight years ago.
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Russia implements its decision to suspend a key Cold War treaty limiting troops and weapons in Europe.
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Three years ago today, the terrorists who struck at the United States changed America forever. Now, a similarly profound change is taking place in another country: Russia.
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Nobody in Russia seems to know how scrapping the popular vote in regional elections can help Russia&#39;s war against terrorism. ULYANOVSK, Russia--In the aftermath of the Beslan tragedy, Russians were expecting
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A Georgian in Moscow describes the difficulties posed by Russia's economic sanctions against her country.
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His promise of a safer Russia looking hollow after a week of disasters, President Vladimir Putin may now put his traumatised country under even tighter control, political analysts say.
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ST. PETERSBURG -- In Russia's lower house of parliament, almost completely dominated by the pro-Kremlin United Russia party, Oksana Dmitrieva was part of a very small club of independent deputies, all facing political oblivion come December's parliamentary elections.
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Opinion polls show that there are fewer supporters of democracy in Russia than in Ukraine.
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With fear running high after a series of deadly terror attacks, many Russians would agree to significant limitations on their rights and freedoms to ensure security, pollsters and analysts said Wednesday.