Rice warns Russia on democracy
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The new US secretary of state says Russia must do more to show it is committed to democracy.
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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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George W Bush says he wants to strengthen ties with Russia, as democracy  monitors say the country is "not free".
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DEAD SEA, Jordan, Nov. 30 -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice signaled Thursday that the United States is willing to risk a breach with Russia if the Russians do not soon sign on to a U.N. Security Council resolution to punish Iran for its nuclear activities.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Tuesday he had concerns about Russian President Vladimir Putin's sweeping political changes and said Russia was backing away from some past 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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WASHINGTON -- Condoleezza Rice took the oath yesterday as the 66th secretary of state and vowed to use American diplomacy to spread democracy across the world.
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SOFIA, Bulgaria  - Moscow warned Western nations  on Tuesday against interfering in Ukraine and other ex-Soviet  republics and Washington and the European Union accused Russia  of a heavy-handed approach to its neighbors.
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MOSCOW - After sharply cutting the number of of Western observers permitted to view polling places and drawing criticism from the United States, the Kremlin warned foreigners yesterday not to interfere in Russia's parliamentary elections.
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Secretary of State Rice faces critics who say the State Department is not addressing the changing world that America must deal with
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Reveling in the apparent election of a pro-Western president in Ukraine, the Bush administration on Monday urged Russia to join with the United States in helping the former Soviet republic. "Let's all join together now and see what we can do," Secretary of State Colin Powell said.
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Bush says he wants to strengthen ties with Russia, as democracy  monitors say the country is "not free".
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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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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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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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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged the international community Friday to act with "more vigor" in dealing with the junta in Myanmar, calling a UN envoy's treatment there "unacceptable."
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Russia's first post-Soviet leader Boris Yeltsin issued a veiled warning that President Vladimir Putin's decision to hand sweeping new powers to the Kremlin in the wake of the Beslan hostage crisis could roll back democratic freedoms.