Administration Rebukes Putin on His Policies
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A top State Department expert described the Kremlin as bullying its neighbors while silencing opponents and suppressing individual rights.
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President Vladimir Putin criticized the United States and NATO on Friday for military expansion toward Russia's borders and said Moscow would respond by modernizing its military and weapons systems.
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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
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VLADIMIR Putin, the Russian president, was accused yesterday of exploiting the fight against terrorism to strengthen his already iron grip on power.
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President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday the United States was seeking ways to resolve differences over a planned missile shield, but warned Russia could re-deploy weapons if Moscow's concerns were not heeded.
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President Vladimir Putin&#39;s government has played down revelations of terrorist involvement in the crash of two airliners, apparently not wanting to highlight an embarrassing security
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The political crisis in Ukraine has touched off a fresh debate inside the White House and foreign policy offices over how President Bush should handle Russian President Vladimir Putin's increasingly authoritarian rule at home and assertive presence abroad, according to administration officials.
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Russia's President Putin defends controversial reform plans in a TV interview to Russia's main networks.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the United States on Thursday of imperialism and starting a new arms race, but Washington said its ex-Cold War foe's foreign policy showed it was behind the times.
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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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President Bush said on Wednesday he was concerned that recent decisions by Russian President Vladimir Putin could undermine democracy in Russia.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he was sceptical about demands by the Ukrainian opposition to repeat a run-off vote after a contested presidential election.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin accused  the United States on Thursday of imperialism and starting a new  arms race, but Washington said its ex-Cold War foe&#39;s foreign  policy showed it was behind the times.
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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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President Vladimir Putin on Thursday scoffed at Washington's claims that possible deployment of U.S. missile defense sites in central Europe was intended to counter threats posed by Iran and said that Russia would take countermeasures.
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US President George W. Bush on Wednesday delivered a rare public rebuke to President Vladimir Putin, warning that he risked undermining democracy in Russia by centralising power.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin denies a link between Russia&#39;s policies in Chechnya and the tragedy in Beslan. Britain&#39;s Guardian newspaper said Putin is again rejecting calls for negotiations with Chechen rebel representatives.