Putin First Russian Chief to Visit Turkey
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President Vladimir Putin made the first official visit by a Russian leader to Turkey on Sunday, seeking to boost trade and counterterrorism cooperation between the two countries, which have been rivals since the time of the czars and sultans.
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Ukraine's new West-leaning president flew to Moscow Monday and headed straight for the Kremlin where he was to hold delicate talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin who had opposed his election.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin appeared to find quick success on a historic Mideast tour that saw the leader of energy-rich Russia forging oil diplomacy in Saudi Arabia and backing a natural gas cartel Monday with neighboring Qatar.
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After winding up his three-day visit to India, Russian President Vladimir Putin left India&#39;s southern city of Bangalore Sunday afternoon for Turkey.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Chechnya ahead of presidential elections next Sunday in the southern republic where rebels are fighting to create an independent Islamic state, Interfax reported.
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BRUSSELS, Dec 15  - Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived in Brussels late Wednesday ahead of an EU summit widely expected to give Ankara a green light to start membership negotiations with the bloc.
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President Vladimir Putin on Monday visited a military unit in an area of the North Caucasus where fighting in 1999 led to the Chechen war that first propelled him to popularity.
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ANKARA, Dec 5  - Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Turkey Sunday for a landmark visit during which the two sides will look into ways of increasing cooperation in the fight against global terrorism and further boost spectacular progress in
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President Vladimir Putin stepped up Kremlin control over Russia's regions and called for moves to improve security in the north Caucasus as he appointed a mew government chief of staff after the Beslan school hostage tragedy.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin will arrive in India shortly to discuss defence, energy and oil deals.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived  in Lisbon on Thursday to meet Portuguese leaders ahead of an  EU-Russia summit on Friday that is likely to be dominated by  disagreements on trade and energy.
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MOSCOW: Vladimir Putin&#39;s visit to Turkey this week deserves the label of historic. For centuries, Russia and the Ottoman Empire clashed along geographic fault lines.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin was in Turkey on Monday on a rare visit meant to boost trade and counterterrorism cooperation between the two countries, which have been rivals since the time of the czars and sultans.
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Greek Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis will discuss Cyprus and bilateral issues during a trip to Ankara that begins on Wednesday, the first official visit to Turkey by a Greek premier since 1959.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has made an unannounced trip to Chechnya to honor the memory of the assassinated leader of the restive southern republic, one week before a scheduled vote to replace him.
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Turkish President Ahmed Necdet Sezer signed here on Monday a joint declaration with visiting Russian President Vladimir Putin, which aimed at upgrading bilateral relations to
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Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Cape Town for the first ever visit to South Africa by a Kremlin leader, a foreign ministry spokeswoman said.