Russian liberal says won't run for presidency
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Veteran liberal politician Boris Nemtsov  withdrew from Russia's presidential race on Wednesday, saying  the opposition needed to put forward a single candidate in the  March election to withstand the Kremlin's "foul play."
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Supreme Rada (Parliament) Speaker Vladimir Lytvyn is sure that no repeat presidential elections will now take place.
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Russia's Prosecutor General says any possible Russian suspects in the spy poisoning case would not be extradited to Britain.
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Russian opposition challenger Mikhail Kasyanov should be disqualified from a March 2 presidential vote because of forged registration documents, the secretary of the Central Election Commission said on Thursday.
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An international election monitoring organization said Thursday that it will not observe Russia's presidential election next month because of the "severe restrictions" imposed by the Kremlin.
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MOSCOW -- A Russian regional leader spoke out yesterday against President Vladimir Putin's plans to disband local assemblies that reject his choice of governor.
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Russia's election authorities on Sunday  barred former prime minister Mikhail Kasyanov, a sharp critic  of the Kremlin, from running in a March presidential election  against President Vladimir Putin's chosen candidate.
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MOSCOW - Vladimir Putin's nominee for prime minister said yesterday that he won't rule out a run for the presidency amid rising speculation his appointment could be part of Putin's plan to retain control over the government after stepping down next spring.
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The chief prosecutor said Tuesday Russia would not allow the extradition of possible suspects in the poisoning of a former KGB agent in Britain and he dismissed as "nonsense" allegations by another ex-security officer of a death squad for Kremlin critics.
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Russia's Prime Minister-designate Viktor Zubkov does not rule out running for the presidency next year.
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Russian prosecutors have officially refused Britain's request to extradite a businessman accused in last year's fatal poisoning of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko, a Russian news agency reported Thursday.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on  Thursday again ruled out running for a third term in the  Kremlin and pledged to organize elections for a successor in  2008 "in a proper democratic way."
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Liberal former Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov, a Kremlin foe, should be barred from Russia's presidential election because some of the signatures supporting his candidacy were forged, election officials said on Thursday.
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The Russian president is losing popular support over his pension reforms and 'managed democracy.'
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The head of Russia's biggest opposition  party is considering dropping out of the race against Kremlin  front-runner Dmitry Medvedev to be the next president, a  newspaper reported on Wednesday.
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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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Russia halted operations of a U.S.-funded organization that trains Russian journalists and the head of the organization fled the country for fear she would be jailed, she and her lawyers said Friday.