Putin dismisses Chechen president
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President Vladimir Putin on Thursday dismissed the president of the war-battered republic of Chechnya and named its widely feared prime minister Ramzan Kadyrov as acting president.
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MOSCOW, Feb. 15 -- President Vladimir Putin dismissed the president of Chechnya on Thursday, clearing a path to the southern republic's highest office for Ramzan Kadyrov, the controversial prime minister of Chechnya who has been accused of major human rights abuses in his drive to pacify the war-torn region....
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Russian president stokes diplomatic row over murder of Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin sharply criticized the United States on Friday, accusing it of a double-standard in fighting terrorism and questioning whether any election
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President Vladimir Putin on Thursday reiterated his refusal to negotiate with Chechen separatists, warning critics against applying what he called a double standard in the definition of terrorism.
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Russians massed in their hundreds of  thousands on Tuesday to denounce terrorism, as President  Vladimir Putin rejected talks with Chechen separatists, blamed  for at least 335 deaths in last week's school hostage siege.
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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, Yukos Oil Co., and the issue of democracy within Russia.
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Russian president, Vladimir Putin, dissolves government in lead-up to parliamentary and presidential elections
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Chechnya's parliament approved a widely feared former security chief as president of the war-battered Russian republic in a nearly unanimous vote Friday, a day after President Vladimir Putin nominated him.
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President Vladimir Putin accused the West of indulging terrorists on Friday, just hours after a Chechen warlord claimed responsibility for a wave of deadly attacks in Russia and threatened more.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has dented his prestige and squandered influence by backing the wrong side in political clashes in Ukraine and in the breakaway Georgian province of Abkhazia, analysts say.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin  dismissed his prime minister on Wednesday, clearing the way for  him to appoint a new premier who is likely to become the  leading candidate in an election for president next March.
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President Vladimir Putin on Thursday carped at US criticism of Russia&#39;s elections and internal changes and said the US voting system had its flaws.
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MOSCOW -- President Vladimir V. Putin criticized Russia's security efforts yesterday, a day after the end of a bloody school siege that left more than 300 hostages dead, declaring, &quot;We showed weakness, and the weak get beaten.&quot;
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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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President Vladimir Putin has fired the commander of Russia's navy, taking to at least four the number of top brass dismissed since he appointed a new defense minister, media in Russia reported on Friday.
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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.