Putin fires Russia navy commander: media
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President Vladimir Putin has fired the commander of Russia's navy, taking to at least four the number of top brass dismissed since he appointed a new defense minister, media in Russia reported on Friday.
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Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma sacked his defense minister on Wednesday for failing to deal with hundreds of thousands of tons of Soviet-era weapons and ammunition that he said threaten the country's ...
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President Vladimir Putin criticized the United States and NATO on Friday for military expansion toward Russia's borders and said Moscow would respond by modernizing its military and weapons systems.
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President Vladimir Putin ordered an overhaul of Russia's political system Monday, reacting to a three-week onslaught of terrorism with plans for the most extensive political shakeup since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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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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President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that the U.S. war in Iraq was a "pointless" battle against the Iraqi people, the latest jab at Washington from the increasingly confrontational Russian leader
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The press keeps up the heat on Russian President Vladimir Putin's plans to strength central government
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On Monday Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the biggest shake-up of Russia&#39;s political system since its 1993 adoption of a post-Soviet constitution, drawing heaps of scorn from both the Russian and international press.
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THE Russian press has lashed out at President Vladimir Putin&#39;s government for failing to &quot;call a spade a spade&quot; and admit that this week&#39;s simultaneous crashes of two passenger jets were the work of terrorists.
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President Vladimir Putin, accused by  former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko of ordering his murder,  said the ex-agent knew no official secrets and had no reason to  flee Russia.
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President Vladimir Putin criticized the United States and NATO on Friday for military expansion toward Russia's borders and said Moscow would respond by modernizing its military and weapons systems
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Russia expelled a journalist on Sunday who had alleged Kremlin malpractice in this month's parliamentary election and tracked funds flowing from Kremlin officials to foreign banks.
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The Russian president is losing popular support over his pension reforms and 'managed democracy.'
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday sharply criticized the Ukrainian opposition's proposal to hold a repeat of the nation's disputed presidential runoff, telling Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma that a revote "would yield nothing."
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President Vladimir Putin on Monday demanded an overhaul of Russia's political system, including an end to the direct popular election of governors, saying the changes were needed to combat terrorism.
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The editor of the respected daily Izvestia was dismissed on Monday after shareholders complained about the newspaper's weekend coverage of the bloody end to the school siege in southern Russia.
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Two crewmembers were killed when a fire broke out aboard a nuclear submarine in Russia's Northern Fleet, Russian Defense Ministry officials told CNN.