Putinâs aide says interventionist policy could hamper growth ...
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LONDON, December 28  - The dismantling of the Russian oil giant Yukos (YUSA.FSE) and the governmentâs growing intervention in the economy could have a negative impact on the countryâs foreign investment inflows, Russian President
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Russia on Thursday said a top U.S.  intelligence official was harboring "outdated assumptions"  about Moscow by accusing it of backtracking on democracy.
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Increasing state ownership is a "step back" for the Russian economy and threatens growth, the OECD warns.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin&#39;s defiant stance on issues ranging from missile defence to the killing of a former Russian agent in London threatens to overshadow this week&#39;s G8 summit.
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MOSCOW -- Facing a wave of deadly terrorism, President Vladimir Putin moved yesterday to reshape Russia's political system and give the central government dramatically increased powers, but his critics said the changes would threaten the country's young democracy and put it on a path toward dictatorship.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin promotes a close ally in a reshuffle ahead of next year's presidential elections.
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Analysis: Putin may have plenty of narrow political reasons for nixing the province's inevitable breakaway from Serbia, but the effect of delaying it may actually make for a more stable transition
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President Vladimir Putin appears unlikely to be confronted by a Ukrainian-style revolution in Russia as a whole anytime soon, but he may face something almost as troubling -- the possibility of "an amber ...
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MOSCOW Russia&#39;s foreign minister on Wednesday defended sweeping political changes announced earlier this week by President Vladimir Putin, telling the United States and other critics that the plans were an internal matter.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Tuesday he had concerns about Russian President Vladimir Putin's sweeping political changes and said Russia was backing away from some past democratic reforms.
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President Vladimir Putin is unlikely to respond swiftly to a proposal that he become prime minister after Russia's presidential election in March, a senior government official and close Putin ally said Wednesday.
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In a bold slap at the United States and other Western powers, Russian president Vladimir Putin said these countries&#39; statements about the election crisis in the Ukraine could be intended to &quot;destablize his country.
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Six years of economic growth fed by high oil prices have given President Vladimir Putin&#39;s government a pleasant but crucial problem: how to spend its windfall.
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ASTANA, Kazakhstan  - Russia curtly told the  United States to stay out of its business Wednesday after U.S.  criticism, echoed by the European Union, of President Vladimir  Putin's plans for radical change that will boost Kremlin power.
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MOSCOW, December 23 (Itar-Tass) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin believes there is a need for work in shifts in the districts in north of Russia, where the conditions of life are hard.
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President Vladimir Putin says he will fight terror by consolidating security agencies and further tightening political control over the country. But his tough tactics risk alienating the public support he needs, and allies abroad seem to be ignoring his pleas to crack down on Chechen separatists.
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The corruption that plagues Russia and its former Soviet neighbors will stifle investment and economic development unless more is done to combat it, the U.S. ambassador to Russia said Tuesday.