Russia&#39;s Watershed
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The attack on the major Russian oil company, YUKOS, which led to the arrest of its chairman and CEO, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and his shares, and subsequently to his resignation, is a watershed event in post-communist Russian history.
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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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The US ruling to block the sale of the mainproduction asset of Yukos injected fresh intrigue into the demise of Russia&#39;s largest oil company.
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Nearly $10 billion was wiped off Russian stocks Thursday, the Moscow Times reported. The huge fall was caused by investors&#39; fears that a surprise $158 million tax claim against Russia&#39;s No.
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For Russians, the Kremlin&#39;s initial response to last Tuesday&#39;s nearly simultaneous plane crashes seemed all too familiar: another example of President Vladimir Putin&#39;s state of denial over the unflattering reality of the war in Chechnya.
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Russia, the world&#39;s second-biggest oil exporter, will benefit most from a Siberian crude oil pipeline to the Pacific rather than to China as energy resources are needed to develop the
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Relations between Britain and Russia take sharp dive over Litvinenko case.
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UKRAINE remains an indepen dent state. For now. But last week&#39;s shamelessly rigged presidential-election results were engineered by Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin&#39;s security services.
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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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The major parties&#39; different approaches to the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas emissions became starker today after Russia made steps to ratify the agreement.
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Russia at the dawn of 2005 little resembles the Russia of a year ago. A chasm divides western and Russian opinion on what the country does resemble, and whether 2004 was a disaster or just another bumpy year.
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Russia has apparently become the central theme of the presidential election in Ukraine.
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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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NEW DELHI: The zip may be missing from Vladimir Putin&#39;s visit this time, but that&#39;s because the India-Russia relationship is moving from a declaratory to a pragmatic phase.
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President Vladimir Putin&#39;s move earlier this week to enhance his own power in response to a wave of terrorism does not take on the real problem: the corrupt and unreformed security
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Russia is again emerging as a superpower - but the reason has less to do with nuclear weapons than with oil.
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On Monday President Vladimir V. Putin announced he would strip Russia&#39;s 89 regions of much of their authority and electoral legitimacy.