Vodka therapy for Putin&#39;s security
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NEW DELHI: He is said to drink little, but Russian President Vladimir Putin will nonetheless be using silverware disinfected with copious amounts of vodka, one of the many security measures in place during his India visit.
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An Irish model for Chechnya? After five years of war and thousands of Russian army battle casualties, is President Vladimir Putin turning away from pure force and boosting the importance of a political solution ...
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In the early months of his presidency, Vladimir Putin met British leader Tony Blair for a beer at a cozy Moscow restaurant. The setting and the leaders' tentative smiles had the air of a promising date that might bloom into something big for Britain and Russia.
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President Bush knows what he wants from Vladimir Putin's visit to his dad's seaside home. Convince Putin that a U.S. missile defense system in Eastern Europe would not threaten Russia. Bring the Kremlin behind tough new penalties aimed at Iran's suspected nuclear weapons program. Generally defrost relations.
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A CHANCE to drink vodka with some old friends from Moscow and a victory which has all but mathematically guaranteed Chelseaâs place in the Champions League
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Russian President Vladimir Putin&#39;s official visit to Turkey ended yesterday. There was nothing particularly sensational about the visit: the parties merely fixed in a political document the present level of
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Ossetian policemen with a sniffer dog search a classroom in a school in Beslan, North Ossetia, Russia. Picture:AP. President Vladimir Putin has announced radical changes to Russia&#39;s democratic
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Russian President Vladimir Putin looks on during a meeting with leading Russian academics in Moscow&#39;s Kremlin Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2004.
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Russian men risk death by drinking aftershave and cleaning agents with high levels of alcohol, a study suggests.
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MOSCOW, October 17 (Itar-Tass) -- Terrorists who took hostages in the secondary school of Beslan, North Ossetia, were addicted to drugs, which might have caused the Beslan tragedy, Deputy Prosecutor General for the southern federal district Nikolai Shepel
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Vladimir Putin began a state visit to Kiev yesterday with a television interview in which he held out the possibility of favourable treatment to Ukrainians, a move thought likely to be helpful to the pro-Moscow candidate in next Sunday&#39;s presidential
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Moscow -- President Vladimir Putin&#39;s moves to scrap regional elections and reform parliament in the name of fighting terrorism will move Russia closer to authoritarianism without making the country any safer, analysts and liberal politicians say.
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To subscribe to The Register's weekly newsletter - seven days of IT in a single hit - click here Yes, thereâs only been story in the news this week. Rogue Russian agents have apparently been racing around the UK, knocking off ex-KGB spies, and endangering sushi chefs, flight attendants and Italian Academics, using rare radioactive isotopes. The fact that it was Polonium 210 that was used to permanently shut-up former KGB man Alexander Litvinenko was taken as proof of Russian state involvement. Only past poison experts such as the KGB had access to such a devastating material, it was reasoned. Well, only them and anyone with a web connection, a credit card and the web address for United Nuclear. So, beware come office party season. If the cocktails look a little more lurid than usual, someone may well be settling scores.â¦
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has seized upon the Beslan school tragedy to chip away even further at Russia&#39;s democracy. But instead of strengthening his own power, it&#39;s possible that his
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As if to build a tragedy upon a tragedy, Russian President Vladimir Putin has moved to recentralize political power in Moscow in the wake of several terrorist attacks.
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President Vladimir Putin signed into law a series of tough new restrictions on beer ads, a measure that lawmakers said should help reduce youth drinking and hooliganism.
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NAME: Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin