Kasparov predicts Russian political crisis within months
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Chess legend and Kremlin critic Garry Kasparov said Saturday that Russia&#39;s opposition would surge in coming months as Moscow  reached a &quot;political crisis&quot; before parliamentary and presidential elections.
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MOSCOW, Dec. 26 -- For the second time this month, a leading figure from Russia's opposition has withdrawn from next March's presidential election complaining of a political landscape that has made open competition impossible.
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"The tendency has been set in earlier agreements. We are cooperating, concluding contracts, we know how to agree"  Russia's Prime Minister said Friday that negotiations on a new contract for Russian natural gas supplies to Ukraine would be held in the last three months of the year, the Itar-TASS news agency reported. via The Boston Globe
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The Russian president hinted for the first time, however, that the balance of power shift in his favor if he becomes prime minister.
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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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The crisis over Ukraine&#39;s disputed presidential election deepened ahead of a key court session Monday, as supporters of the prime minister raised the possibility that it could provoke a breakup of the former Soviet republic.
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KIEV, Ukraine  - A new Ukrainian poll of some sort  looked increasingly likely as parliament and the Supreme Court  pressed ahead on Thursday with efforts to resolve a national  crisis over a disputed presidential election.
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The popularity of President Vladimir  Putin's favored successor soared in an opinion poll released on  Thursday and Putin critic Garry Kasparov pulled out of the  contest.
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The popularity of President Vladimir Putin's favored successor soared in an opinion poll released on Thursday and Putin critic Garry Kasparov pulled out of the contest.
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President Viktor Yushchenko warned that he could dissolve parliament and call new elections if Ukrainian political parties fail to form a governing coalition by the end of next week, three months after a legislative ballot.
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Fears of a management bailout at the embattled oil giant Yukos loomed large Thursday after the company's chief financial officer said he had delayed his return to Moscow indefinitely after Russian prosecutors had summoned him for questioning.
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Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov wants his ministers to engage their brains before opening their mouths, Itar-Tass news agency has reported.
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NEW YORK It is tempting to believe that the threat of international crisis is suspended in the months preceding the US presidential election.
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Russian First Deputy Prime Minister  Dmitry Medvedev, a frontrunner for the presidency next year,  will hold a live nationwide Web conference next month - a forum  normally reserved for President Vladimir Putin.
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Russia's most vocal opposition movement, headed by former chess champion Garry Kasparov, demonstrated in a major city on Saturday without police violence or interference for the first time in months of protests.
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MOSCOW -- There are many ways history may judge last month's presidential elections in Ukraine, but in Russia these days the reverberations are most often described with a single word that sounds the same in Russian as in English: &quot;fiasco.&quot;
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Russian and Western leaders are sharply at odds over the country's election crisis.