Russia chides U.S. over rights report
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A State Department report that said Russia's human rights record has deteriorated in the past year was criticized by the government on Friday as skewed, confrontational and aimed at furthering American political interests.
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Russia's military prosecutor said Thursday that Human Rights Watch was mistaken in its accusations of widespread hazing in the military and said Russia had already made serious efforts to combat the problem.
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Uzbekistan accused the United States of practicing double standards on human rights issues Friday after Washington listed the former Soviet republic as one of the world's worst violators of religious freedom.
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Russia criticized the United States on Wednesday for its willingness to hold talks with Chechens agitating for independence and suggested the issue could harm bilateral relations.
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In a veiled swipe at the United States and its United States allies such as Israel, Russia&#39;s foreign minister said Sunday his country opposed a Security Council resolution demanding free presidential elections here and a Syrian troop withdrawal out of
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PRAGUE, June 5 -- President Bush declared Tuesday that Russia has "derailed" democratic reforms and that the United States would continue to press it on this issue. The remarks, his most pointed public comments about civil liberties in Russia, came at a time of heightened tensions with Moscow.
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SOFIA, Bulgaria  - Russia and the United States on  Tuesday clashed over efforts to win influence in Ukraine and  other former Soviet republics, with Moscow warning the West  against interference and Washington rejecting the charge.
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Russia rejected on Wednesday U.S. criticism of sweeping political changes proposed by President Vladimir Putin, saying this was strictly Moscow's business.
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Russia rejected on Wednesday U.S.  criticism of sweeping political changes proposed by President  Vladimir Putin, saying this was strictly Moscow's business.
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MOSCOW -- Russia has restricted rights to such an extent that it has joined the countries that are ''not free" for the first time since the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union, Freedom House said yesterday, marking Moscow's march away from the Western democracies it has embraced as diplomatic partners.
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The International Committee of the Red Cross said yesterday it has given the Bush administration a confidential report critical of US treatment of terror suspects detained
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Russia has rejected criticism from the United States that reforms designed to overhaul national security could undermine democratic development.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin looks on during a meeting with the Cabinet in Moscow&#39;s Kremlin, Monday, Dec. 20, 2004. Freedom House, a US-based organization that tracks the progress of political rights and
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Russia's foreign minister on Wednesday defended sweeping political changes announced by President Vladimir Putin earlier this week, telling the United States and other critics that the plans ar
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Russia curtly told the United States to  stay out of its business on 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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Russian President Vladimir Putin sharply criticized the United States on Friday, accusing it of a double-standard in fighting terrorism and questioning whether any election in Iraq can be democratic when fighting is raging in the country.
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WASHINGTON -- A debate is brewing at the highest levels of the Bush administration over whether to adopt a tougher stance toward Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin, who has systematically rolled back democratic freedoms and tried to snuff out democracy in weak neighboring states with little American opposition, according to US officials and policy analysts.