Putin Vexes West With Ukraine Support
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Increasingly, Russian President Vladimir Putin walks alone. He has alarmed the West with authoritarian policies at home. He announced last week that Russia was developing new nuclear missiles. And now he has embraced the official outcome of a Ukrainian election that Western observers say was rigged.
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RBC, 10.12.2004, Moscow 19:51:19.Russian President Vladimir Putin approves of the possibility of Ukraine joining the European Union.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin appears on Ukrainian TV days before the election to praise the prime minister.
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In the wake of opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko&#39;s apparent victory, Moscow has been wary of Ukraine&#39;s perceived drift towards the West, and the Kremlin recently
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President Vladimir Putin accused the  West of indulging terrorists on Friday, just hours after a  Chechen warlord claimed responsibility for a wave of deadly  attacks in Russia and threatened more.
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Ukraine's new president, visiting Moscow  on his first foreign trip, pledged to maintain an eternal  alliance with Russia in talks with President Vladimir Putin on  Monday, but said his country would still look westward.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin made an  unprecedented television appearance in neighboring Ukraine days  before presidential elections, endorsing the record of the  prime minister, one of two top candidates.
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Russia could aim nuclear missiles at Ukraine if the former Soviet republic joins NATO and accepts the deployment of anti-missile defenses on its territory, President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday.
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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, who openly backed Viktor Yushchenko&#39;s rival for president of the Ukraine, said in an abrupt reversal Tuesday that he could work with an administration headed by the pro-Western candidate.
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Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich met with visiting Russian President Vladimir Putin, just over a week before the former Soviet republic's second round of presidential elections in which Putin has openly backed Yanukovich's bid.
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The Bush administration is hoping for a pro-Western outcome in today&#39;s presidential election in Ukraine, but at the same time has to be careful not to antagonize Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin accuses the West of using "double standards" in democratic elections.
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President Vladimir Putin condemned critics in the West for pushing him to negotiate with Chechen separatists, saying former Cold War rivals were unreliable partners in the war on terrorism.
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President Vladimir Putin accused the West of indulging terrorists on Friday, just hours after a Chechen warlord claimed responsibility for a wave of deadly attacks in Russia and threatened more.
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MUNICH, Germany  - Russian President Vladimir Putin sharply criticized the United States and its Western allies on Saturday for what he said was an attempt to force their will on the world.
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Outgoing Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma gained Russian President Vladimir Putin&#39;s backing yesterday against calls for a quick rerun of the last round of the disputed presidential election.