MPs back Putin plan for regions
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The Russian Duma backs President Putin's plan to replace elected regional bosses with his own appointees.
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Voters in Moldova's breakaway Trans-Dniester region back a plan to unite with Russia, officials say.
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Putin s decision on Monday to end the system of direct popular election of Russia s governors, and to have the Russian parliament elected on the basis of slates chosen by national party leaders he mostly ...
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Description: Russian President Vladimir Putin responds to the school massacre in Beslan by saying he&#39;ll restructure parliament and eliminate the direct election of governors.
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MOSCOW  - President Vladimir Putin sought to convince the nation Thursday that his electoral reform was not a retreat from democracy but was needed to save Russia from international terrorists and to limit the political influence of business barons. Putin said in a nationwide television interview his plan to end direct elections of regional governors and parliament deputies will help strengthen the government, which he said was being eroded by ethnic divisions and turf battles between local clans.
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Russia's lower house of parliament confirmed President Vladimir Putin's choice as prime minister on Friday, approving the previously obscure official Viktor Zubkov in a vote whose result was a foregone conclusion in the Kremlin-controlled chamber.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin called  on Thursday for a powerful parliament and unchanged policies  after he leaves the Kremlin in remarks hinting he may go on to  use a power base in parliament to dominate the country.
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KIEV -- President Leonid Kuchma won crucial political support yesterday from President Vladimir Putin of Russia, who sided with him in rejecting an opposition demand to rerun the presidential runoff held 11 days ago.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin made constitutional changes on Monday designed to increase his personal control of the regions and parliament, saying the government needed &quot;strengthening&quot; because it had failed at Beslan in its fight against terrorism.
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Outgoing Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma  gained Vladimir Putin's backing on Thursday against calls for a  quick re-run of the last round of the disputed presidential  election the opposition is certain it would win.
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Russian deputies submitted a draft anti-terrorism law to parliament on Tuesday in the latest security measure after attacks such as the Beslan school massacre in which more than 330 people were killed.
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President Vladimir Putin stepped up Kremlin control over Russia's regions and called for moves to improve security in the north Caucasus after the Beslan school hostage tragedy.
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The leaders of the Ukrainian parliamentary factions have backed the proposal to call an extraordinary parliamentary session on Saturday, the speaker's press secretary Ihor Storozhuk told journalists on Friday.
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The proposals would strengthen Vladimir V. Putin's already pervasive control over the legislative branch and regional governments.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin reversed an earlier stand and has agreed to allow the upper house of Parliament to investigate the recent hostage-taking attack on a school in southern Russia.
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European editorialists on Tuesday commented on the plans by Russian President Vladimir Putin to change the countryâs political system and the continuing violence in Iraq.
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Russia&#39;s upper house of parliament has ratified the Kyoto Protocol, leaving President Vladimir Putin&#39;s signature as the final step to kickstart global efforts to control climate change.