Putin punishes outspoken top economic adviser
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Have the news stories that matter most sent to your inbox daily. Russian President Vladimir Putin stripped his top economic adviser an outspoken critic who has accused the Kremlin of trying to muzzle voices of ...
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The man expected to be Russia's next president, Dmitry Medvedev, wants a reduced state role in the economy.
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Russia's bankers offered a big reward on   Friday for information on the killers of a top central bank   official who had crusaded against money laundering.
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President Vladimir V. Putin vented his anger at the killers and at critics who call for a moderate response.
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Two senior executives in the collapsed Yukos oil empire receive long prison terms for fraudulent trading.
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MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin yesterday nominated a longtime associate who is a largely anonymous figure to be the country's new prime minister, scrambling predictions about who will be the Kremlin-backed candidate in next March's presidential election.
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A top Russian central banker who led an   aggressive drive to clean up Russia's murky banking system died   early on Thursday after being ambushed by gunmen in what law   enforcement officials said was a contract 'hit'.
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Vladimir Putin criticises central and local government officials over contentious reforms of Russia's benefits system.
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Kremlin accused of invoking threat of forced military service to intimidate anti-Putin activists.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday stripped many of the duties of his top economic advisor - an outspoken critic who has accused the Kremlin of trying to muzzle voices of dissent and civil society in ...
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Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russiaâs richest man until his arrest on fraud and tax evasion charges last year, from his Moscow prison cell today accused the Kremlin of stealing his Yukos oil empire by manipulating the law.
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Russia's economy minister becomes the second senior figure within weeks to criticise the government's sell-off of part of oil giant Yukos.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday stripped many of the duties of his top economic adviser &#151; an outspoken critic who has accused the Kremlin of trying to muzzle voices of dissent and civil society in Russia.
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President Vladimir Putin used a year-end news conference yesterday to sharply criticize a wide range of US actions and attitudes on Ukraine, Chechnya
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WARSAW, December 24 (Itar-Tass) -- Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski assessed the criticism from his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin as âunfairâ and said it was the price he had to pay for involvement in the Ukrainian political crisis.
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MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday sacked the Interior Minister of North Ossetia and the regional head of the FSB security service in the first national political fallout from the Beslan school hostage massacre in the southern republic.
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Plan has prompted the first serious opposition to the Putin government.