Russia's Medvedev says too hard-up to own a car
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Russia's likely future president, Dmitry Medvedev, does not have a car of his own and the only family transport is his wife's nine-year-old Volkswagen Golf, an official income declaration showed on Monday.
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MOSCOW Boris Yeltsin, Russia&#39;s first post-Soviet leader, issued a veiled warning Thursday that President Vladimir Putin&#39;s decision to seize sweeping new powers after the Beslan hostage crisis could erode democratic freedoms.
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Dmitry Medvedev, the man widely expected to be Russia's next president, promised business leaders Friday in a speech to burnish his liberal image that he will protect private property, cut red tape and fight corruption.
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Russiaâs likely next president Dmitry Medvedev said that freedom, private property and an independent judiciary would be the central planks of his administration.
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The Kremlin candidate won Chechnya&#39;s presidential election but now faces a struggle to keep the warring region under control and subdue a resurgent separatist rebellion that has frustrated Russia for a decade.
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President Vladimir V. Putin warned Russia&#39;s business elite on Tuesday to &quot;get used to paying taxes and observing the law,&#39;&#39; but he also sought to allay investor fears
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The global credit crisis and volatility across developed financial markets could yet hurt Russia and hinder long-term investment, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said late on Saturday.
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KHIMKI, Russia, Jan. 15 - Mikhail I. Yermakov, a retired engineer, has never before taken to the streets to protest - not when the Soviet Union collapsed, the wars in Chechnya began, the ruble plummeted in 1998 or President Vladimir V. Putin last year ended his right to choose his governor.
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The head of Russia's biggest opposition  party is considering dropping out of the race against Kremlin  front-runner Dmitry Medvedev to be the next president, a  newspaper reported on Wednesday.
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The man tipped to become Russian president, Dmitry Medvedev, calls for sweeping legal reforms.
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ST.PETERSBURG, Russia  - Pensioners and veterans angered over the cutoff of welfare payments clogged streets and paralysed traffic in St. Petersburg, hometown to President Vladimir Putin, for a second day Sunday and the street demonstrations spread to other Russian cities.
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President Vladimir Putin rejected concern that he is beating a path toward authoritarianism, calling such criticism &quot;total nonsense&quot; in an interview published Friday and saying Russia needs time to build democracy after centuries of heavy
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MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin delivered a tough defense Thursday of the secretive transfer of the crumbling Yukos oil empire&#39;s most lucrative fields to a state company, adding acidly that a US judge who sought to block the sale most likely couldn&#39;t
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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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Police stopped angry retirees from blocking traffic Monday, the third day of protests in President Vladimir Putin's hometown against welfare benefit cutoffs that have sparked the largest outburst of public anger in the Russian leader's five years in power.
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The "strong" Russian state President Vladimir Putin is attempting to create conceals within itself weaknesses that are potentially far greater and more threatening to the future development of the country than ...
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James Rodgers in Moscow reports on the Russian passion for cars and how the city's roads have changed.