Putin Rival Barred From Presidential Election
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MOSCOW, Jan. 27 -- Former prime minister Mikhail Kasyanov, a political opponent of President Vladimir Putin, was barred Sunday from running for president after the Central Election Commission said it had found tens of thousands of forged signatures among the 2 million gathered by his campaign to ...
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Campaigning for Sunday's Palestinian elections ends with one of the leading candidates barred from East Jerusalem.
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Europe's main election watchdog cancelled plans on Thursday to monitor Russia's presidential election next month, citing unacceptable restrictions imposed by Moscow.
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President Vladimir Putin told Russia's  state security service on Wednesday to raise its guard against  outside attempts to meddle in a March election which is  expected to bring to power his hand-picked successor.
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Liberal former Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov, a Kremlin foe, should be barred from Russia's presidential election because some of the signatures supporting his candidacy were forged, election officials said on Thursday.
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President Vladimir Putin, who is constitutionally barred from seeking a third term next year, left the door open for a return to the Kremlin in 2012, a Russian newspaper reported Saturday.
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Russia blocked US and European diplomatic efforts at the latest OSCE meeting for a joint position on a re-run of Ukraine âs presidential election on Tuesday because it would interfere in negotiations there, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
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Vladimir Putin's chosen candidate  for next month's presidential election seized the opportunity  to emphasize the continuity of power at an event on Sunday in  Russia's future Winter Olympics capital.
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The Russian president is losing popular support over his pension reforms and 'managed democracy.'
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LONDON: Russian President Vladimir Putin has forcefully ruled out any negotiations with Chechen separatists following the deaths of more than 350 people in a hostage-taking crisis in southern Russia, The Guardian newspaper reported on Tuesday.
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SOCHI, Russia  - Vladimir Putin's chosen candidate for next month's presidential election seized the opportunity to emphasize the continuity of power at an event on Sunday in Russia's future Winter Olympics capital.
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President Vladimir Putin told Russia's state security service on Wednesday to raise its guard against outside attempts to meddle in a March election which is expected to bring to power his hand-picked successor.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, siding with President Bush two weeks before the U.S. election, said Monday that armed attacks in Iraq were staged by "international terrorism" out to block his re-election.
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Vladimir Putin, whose term as Russian  president ends next year, does not rule out running again in  2012, a leading Russian daily reported on Saturday.
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Russian prosecutors accused opposition  candidate Mikhail Kasyanov on Tuesday of forging signatures for  his presidential bid, a step that could lead to his  disqualification from the election.
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Russia's top election authority on  Wednesday threw out a call for a people's poll that would clear  the way for President Vladimir Putin to stay on in power,  making it more likely he will step down as he plans in 2008.
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Defense Minister Oleksandr Kuzmuk has excluded the use of force in the presidential election.