OECD raps Russian state control
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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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NOVO OGARYOVO, Russia : IMF Director General Rodrigo Rato urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to limit state intervention in the economy and keep a close eye on inflation in order to meet his goal of doubling output by 2010.
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The Russian leader criticises his government and regional authorities over the scrapping of the Soviet-era benefits system.
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The State Department expressed concern Tuesday that efforts by President Vladimir Putin of Russia to concentrate more power in the Kremlin may set back the country's democratic development.
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Investment funds controlled by foreign governments could trigger a protectionist backlash, a report warns.
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Claims that Moldova's membership in the Commonwealth of Independent States means its preferences of Russia versus the European Union are a mistake, Moldovan Foreign Minister Andrei Stratan told the government ...
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In a vivid sign of growing high-level dissension with government policies, Russia's economic development minister said that state-controlled companies are holding the country back and suggested that the government should privatize a giant oil producer it recently wrested from the Yukos company.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said state-run companies may bid for OAO Yukos Oil Co. assets in any sale to collect back taxes, raising the prospect of further government control over the nation&#39;s oil and gas industry.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin defended unpopular social benefit reforms Monday but criticized his government for failing to successfully implement changes that have brought thousands onto the streets in protest.
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Japan has accused Russia of violating its airspace over and demanded an explanation.
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Nobel laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn has accused the West of trying to ignore and sideline Russia.
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The head of Russia&#39;s financial watchdog insisted Thursday that the privatizations of the 1990s would not be revisited, a week after releasing a critical report on the deals between 1993 and 2003.
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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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The head of a New York-based human rights group accused Russia on Wednesday of "bureaucratic harassment" of civil groups critical of the Kremlin after he was denied a visa to travel to Moscow.
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The Russian state will maintain some restrictions on foreign ownership in gas giant Gazprom after the liberalisation of its shareholding structure, a top minister said.
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Is Russia sliding back into czar-like autocracy, after a brief liberation from Soviet dictatorship? The leaders who ushered in democracy fear so, as President Vladimir Putin pushes to centralize yet more power in his own busy hands.
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Russia took over the presidency of Europe&#039;s chief body charged with maintaining democracy and human rights -- issues on which it has frequently found itself the target of criticism.