Putin Names Nationalist to NATO Post
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MOSCOW, Jan. 10 -- President Vladimir Putin on Thursday appointed a prominent nationalist and political gadfly as Russia's new permanent representative to NATO, a decision that signals the Kremlin's determination to confront the military alliance across a host of divisive issues.
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A general seen as a staunch nationalist is named as the new Turkish armed forces chief.
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President Vladimir Putin has appointed a firebrand nationalist as Russia's permanent representative to NATO as the Kremlin takes a more assertive stance towards its Cold War foe.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on  Thursday appointed Ramzan Kadyrov, a 30-year-old former rebel,  as acting president of Chechnya after removing Alu Alkhanov  from the top job, a spokesman for Putin said.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin issued New Year's greetings Saturday to a former pro-Soviet partisan convicted in Latvia of killing civilians during World War II.
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Russian President Vladimir  Putin took the pilot's seat on Wednesday as he was shown around  a new airliner, leaving the man likely to succeed him in the  co-pilot's chair.
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Russia agreed Thursday to send warships to help NATO naval patrols that monitor suspicious vessels in the Mediterranean, part of a push for closer counterterrorism cooperation between Moscow and the western alliance.
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NAME: Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin
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NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said Friday that the alliance wants "a solid, trustful" relationship with Russia and it is up to Moscow to clarify whether it wants the same.
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Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov has appointed a new chief negotiator with Ukraine on the status of the Azov Sea, Interfax news agency said Monday.
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President Vladimir Putin on Thursday promoted close ally Sergei Ivanov to the position of first deputy prime minister but replaced him as defense minister in a personnel reshuffle a little more than a year ahead of Russia's presidential elections.
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Putin signals that Russia is on a new collision course with Nato as he dumps a key arms control treaty.
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Analysis: Moscow wants to rein in its pro-NATO neighbor, and a spy scandal may have provided an opening
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President Putin promises Russia pioneering new weaponry - amid continuing crisis in the armed forces.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin promotes a close ally in a reshuffle ahead of next year's presidential elections.
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Russia will move aggressively into the war against international terrorism by cooperating more closely with the United States. President Vladimir Putin on Monday announced sweeping measures to beef up Kremlin
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Politics: 3 September 2004, Friday. Bulgaria's president has sent a letter to counterpart Vladimir Putin to express support to Russian anti-terror struggle.