Putin 'not running away'
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The annual news conference of Russia's Vladimir Putin is a presidential marathon says the BBC's James Rodgers.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on  Thursday again ruled out running for a third term in the  Kremlin and pledged to organize elections for a successor in  2008 "in a proper democratic way."
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Russian President Vladimir Putin says existing business tax probes should not be seen a threat to other companies.
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President Putin says a new arms race is under way and that Nato is not listening to Russia's concerns.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin called  on Thursday for a powerful parliament and unchanged policies  after he leaves the Kremlin in remarks hinting he may go on to  use a power base in parliament to dominate the country.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday he had no plans to grab more power or change the constitution when reforming Russia&#39;s government structure.
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President Vladimir Putin said Friday the Kremlin was preparing to take preventive action against terrorists, even as a Chechen rebel leader purportedly claimed responsibility for a series of attacks that killed hundreds of people and threatened more violence.
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President Vladimir Putin said on Friday  that Russia would not allow itself to be drawn into what he  called a new global arms race.
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Russia is joining the ranks of nascent dictatorships, and Vladimir Putin is the executioner of Russian democracy. Right? Wrong. Russia is not a dictatorship, and the political system Putin is trying to reshape is not a democracy.
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No foreign countries will be allowed to meddle in the campaign leading up to Russia's crucial presidential election in March, President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday.
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President Vladimir Putin said Friday that the media could not just be passive observers in the face of terrorist threats and called on journalists to use their work to advance the anti-terrorist cause.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that he remained committed to democracy, the market economy and press freedom. But Mr Putin said journalists must also play their part in combating terrorism
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President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Russia would not allow itself to be drawn into what he called a new arms race.
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BESLAN, Russia - Russians rallied against terrorism Tuesday in response to a hostage-taking that claimed more than 350 lives, and President Vladimir Putin denied a link between Russia's policies in Chechnya and the standoff in this southern city.    In an interview late Monday with foreign journalists and academics, Putin again rejected Western calls for negotiations with Chechen rebel representatives, Britain's Guardian daily reported...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin voiced suspicion Thursday the United States might be behind efforts to isolate Russia and destabilize it.
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BESLAN, Russia - A shaken President Vladimir Putin made a rare and candid admission of Russian weakness Saturday in the face of an "all-out war" by terrorists after more than 350 people - nearly half of them children - were killed in a hostage-taking at a southern school.    Putin went on national television to tell Russians they must mobilize against terrorism...
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Whatever President Vladimir Putin's purpose in choosing a new prime minister, he didn't look far.