Top Russian aide likens Putin to FDR
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Vladimir Putin has been likened to czars and Communist Party chiefs, but a top aide came up with an unusual comparison Thursday for the Russian president: Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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MAXINE McKEW: In Russia this festive season, there appears to be a sign of peace and goodwill from hard-line leader Vladimir Putin.
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AS OIL prices hovered near record levels, United States President George W. Bush welcomed a personal assurance this week from his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin that Russia would
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, who will step down next year after eight years in power, may have a surprise choice for his preferred successor, state news agency RIA Novosti said on Friday, quoting a senior Kremlin aide.
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NAME: Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin
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Russia's political elite has been showing a striking willingness to take sides in the U.S. election &#151; most notably President Vladimir Putin, whose expression of support for President Bush reflects more than the two leaders' warm relationship.
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Once again the Kremlin-backed candidate will face the opposition leader who favors closer ties with the West.
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Russian president willing to take on role if Dmitry Medvedev is elected to succeed him as president
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday he was ready to become prime minister if his close ally Dmitry Medvedev succeeds him, giving Putin a way to keep a grip on power after he leaves the Kremlin.
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MOSCOW, Feb. 15 -- President Vladimir Putin promoted Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov to the post of first deputy prime minister Thursday, an elevation that immediately intensified speculation that Putin might favor him as his successor.
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French President Jacques Chirac welcomes  his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Friday at a time when  Russia is showing growing willingness to use booming oil and  gas revenues to boost its global economic clout.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin awarded a top state honour to ex-dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn on Tuesday, lauding his devotion to the &quot;fatherland&quot; at a lavish ceremony in the Kremlin.
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Astana - Moscow, November 3 KAZINFORM - Russian President Vladimir Putin and visiting Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will pay much attention to bilateral political cooperation, at their talks in the Kremlin on Wednesday, said a high-placed
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Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Chechen First Deputy Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov and head of the Public Council for Control of Chechen Reconstruction Alu Alkhanov in Sochi on Sunday.
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The Russian Duma backs President Putin's plan to replace elected regional bosses with his own appointees.
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Russia's biggest political party is due to confirm Putin aide Dmitri Medvedev as its candidate for the presidency.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, who openly backed Viktor Yushchenko&#39;s rival for president of the Ukraine, said in an abrupt reversal Tuesday that he could work with an administration headed by the pro-Western candidate.