Putin works to reassure CEOs on investment in Russia
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ST PETERSBURG, Russia  - President Vladimir Putin worked to reassure CEOs from leading global companies about the security of foreign investment in Russia at a closed door meeting on Saturday evening, participants said.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin today used his annual Kremlin press conference to address many of the issues that made headlines in Russia and abroad in 2004.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin  arrived in South Africa on Tuesday, starting a historic two-day  visit on Tuesday which will see Russia stepping up investment  in the country.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin says existing business tax probes should not be seen a threat to other companies.
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MOSCOW - Responding to a series of deadly terror attacks, President Vladimir Putin on Monday moved to significantly strengthen the Kremlin's grip on power, with new measures that include the naming of regional governors and an overhaul of the electoral system.    Putin told Cabinet members and security officials convened in special session that the future of Russia was at stake and urged the creation of a central, powerful anti-terror agency...
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MOSCOW, November 19, (RIA Novosti) - Vladimir Putin wants the Chileans to learn more about Russia and see in it a reliable partner.
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Russia's president Vladimir Putin says the purchase of Yukos' main asset by state-owned oil group Rosneft was done in accordance with free market principles.
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President Vladimir Putin gave his  blessing on Friday for state energy firms to bid for oil major  YUKOS' assets if bailiffs put them up for sale to recover a  huge back-tax bill.
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President Vladimir Putin of Russia suggested that the secretive buyers of the largest subsidiary of the oil giant Yukos might transfer the assets to other owners.
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Responding to a spate of deadly terror attacks, President Vladimir Putin on Monday announced a series of far-reaching initiatives that would significantly strengthen the Kremlin's control over the country's political life.
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MOSCOW Russian President Vladimir Putin is taking steps to further strengthen the central government&#39;s control over the nation&#39;s political life.
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President Vladimir V. Putin said he intended to wield substantial power after leaving office next month.
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LONDON (CBS.MW) -- Russian President Vladmir Putin told a group of media executives &quot;the state&#39;s goal has not been, is not and will not be&quot; to nationalize the country&#39;s emabattled oil giant Yukos (YUKOY) , AFX News reported, though said that state firms
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The last week was marked with a very important event in Russia. It took the state a year to accomplish that: President Putin virtually acknowledged at the press conference in the Kremlin that the main objective
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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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COMPIEGNE, France  - Russian President Vladimir   Putin sought to reassure France and Germany on Saturday they   had nothing to fear from Moscow's growing economic clout and   held out the prospect of more natural gas for Europe.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has defended the acquisition of Yuganskneftegaz, core asset of embattled oil major Yukos by the state-run Rosneft, saying that the state was protecting its interests in moving to get control of one of the biggest