Putin fires North Ossetia interior minister, regional FSB head
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President Vladimir Putin sacked the interior minister of North Ossetia and the regional head of the FSB security service, one week after the massacre at a school in the republic, the Kremlin press service said.
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Estonian Foreign Minister Kristiina Ojuland is sacked over secret files that went missing at her ministry.
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Vladimir Putin criticises central and local government officials over contentious reforms of Russia's benefits system.
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MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin on Monday demanded an overhaul of Russia's political system, including an end to the direct popular election of governors, saying the changes were needed to combat terrorism.    Critics charged the Russian leader was using the bloody outcome of the Beslan school siege to grab more power...
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MOSCOW -- President Vladimir Putin yesterday accused Georgia of blackmail and lawmakers threatened more sanctions as Moscow police went after businesses allegedly tied to Georgian organized crime and cracked down on illegal migrants from the Caucasus Mountains nation.
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Russia's President Vladimir Putin on Friday urged the West to persuade Georgia's leadership to change its "irresponsible" policies, the Kremlin press service said in a statement.
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MOSCOW, Feb. 15 -- President Vladimir Putin dismissed the president of Chechnya on Thursday, clearing a path to the southern republic's highest office for Ramzan Kadyrov, the controversial prime minister of Chechnya who has been accused of major human rights abuses in his drive to pacify the war-torn region....
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BESLAN, Russia - President Vladimir Putin ordered the borders of North Ossetia closed Saturday as security forces searched the southern region for militants who escaped the Russian storming of a school where they had held hundreds of people hostage, many who fled the building under fire. Officials said at least 250 people were killed, mostly children...
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Ukraine's parliament sacks the foreign and interior ministers - key allies of the pro-Western president.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday stripped many of the duties of his top economic advisor - an outspoken critic who has accused the Kremlin of trying to muzzle voices of dissent and civil society in ...
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Description: Russian President Vladimir Putin responds to the school massacre in Beslan by saying he&#39;ll restructure parliament and eliminate the direct election of governors.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin  dismissed his prime minister on Wednesday, clearing the way for  him to appoint a new premier who is likely to become the  leading candidate in an election for president next March.
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President Vladimir Putin has dissolved the Russian government on the request of the prime minister, the Kremlin said Wednesday, a major political shakeup that comes less than three months before crucial parliamentary elections.
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LONDON, Nov. 26 -- A British cabinet minister on Sunday accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of "huge attacks on individual liberty and on democracy" as British officials investigated the mysterious poisoning death of a former Russian spy.
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President Vladimir Putin has dissolved the Russian government on the request of the prime minister, the Kremlin said Wednesday, a major political shakeup that comes less than three months before crucial parliamentary elections
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defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov has resigned, Russia's new prime minister said on Tuesday as President Vladimir Putin considered his proposed cabinet lineup.
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President Vladimir Putin on Thursday dismissed the president of the war-battered republic of Chechnya and named its widely feared prime minister Ramzan Kadyrov as acting president.