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BBC News
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is proposing the names of ministers in his new government, which will work with President Dmitry Medvedev.
Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin will be retaining his post and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also keeps his..
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CNN
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Russian President Vladimir Putin met NATO leaders Friday amid fresh tensions between Moscow and Washington over the future expansion of the military alliance and U.S. moves to install missile defense bases in eastern Europe. Speaking after the meeting wit..
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CNN
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Dmitry Medvedev has celebrated his landslide victory in Russia's presidential vote, amid claims by electoral observers questioning the fairness of the result, according to agency reports. With 100 percent of precincts reporting, Medvedev -- President Vlad..
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CNN
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President Vladimir Putin expressed support Monday for First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev as his successor, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported. There have been months of intense speculation on whom Putin would support to run in the March 2 preside..
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BBC News
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President Vladimir Putin has urged Russians to vote for his United Russia party in Sunday's parliamentary election, in a televised address.
"I ask you to come to the polls and vote for United Russia," he said.
President Putin, who cannot run for a t..
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CNN
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Russian President Vladimir Putin insisted Monday that "of course" he would travel to Tehran, despite reports about a possible assassination attempt. Russia's Interfax news agency, citing a source in Russia's intelligence services, said Sunday that suicide..
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BBC News
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has signalled he will not support a US plan for a missile defence system in Europe, at the start of key US-Russia talks.
He urged Washington "not to force" a planned deployment of a radar in the Czech Republic and inter..
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CNN
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Russian President Vladimir Putin's choice for new prime minister, Viktor Zubkov, was overwhelmingly approved in a Friday vote by Russia's lower house of parliament, a live broadcast on state-run TV showed. Zubkov was tapped for the position by Putin last..
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CNN
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President Vladimir Putin dissolved the Russian government Wednesday in a major political shakeup ahead of parliamentary elections in less than three months and a presidential vote next year, news agencies reported.
The dissolution is expected to result..
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BBC News
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has suspended the application of a key Cold War arms control treaty.
Mr Putin signed a decree citing "exceptional circumstances" affecting security as the reason for the move.
Russia has been angered by US plans to b..
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Daily Mail
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Russian leader Vladimir Putin has made an astonishing bid to grab a vast chunk of the Arctic, giving himself claim to its vast potential oil, gas and mineral wealth.
His audacious argument that an underwater Russian ridge is linked to the North Pole is..
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CNN
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday criticized international economic institutions for protecting the interests of a select few developed countries and called for a new global economic order that would give rapidly growing developing economies a bi..
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Washington Post
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After days of escalating rhetoric about missile defense, Russian President Vladimir Putin made a surprise offer to President Bush on Thursday, proposing that Russia join with the United States and some of its European allies to operate a shield intended a..
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USA Today
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President Bush on Wednesday discounted Vladimir Putin's threat to re-target missiles on Europe, saying "Russia is not going to attack Europe."
Bush, in an interview with the Associated Press and other reporters, said that no U.S. military response was..
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BBC News
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Moscow may target weapons at Europe if the US builds planned missile defence facilities in the region, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said.
Russia has not pointed missiles towards Europe since the end of the Cold War.
Last week, Russia said it..
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Washington Post
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Russia and the United States sparred yet again Thursday, continuing a war of words that has raised tensions across the Atlantic.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, accepting an award for her contributions to German unification more than a decade and..
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New York Times
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President Vladimir V. Putin seemed to obliquely compare the foreign policy of the United States to the Third Reich in a speech on Wednesday commemorating the 62nd anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany.
The comments were the latest in a series of sh..
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Guardian Unlimited
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Radioactive traces found in bar and restaurant. Foreign Office 'has spoken to Russia'. Putin dismisses accusations...
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USA Today
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday held talks with Iran's top nuclear negotiator — a move that signaled a serious Kremlin effort to force Iran to freeze its uranium enrichment program...
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BBC News
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Russia's parliament has overwhelmingly approved former President Vladimir Putin as the new prime minister.
He handed over to Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday - his chosen successor, who was elected president in March.
The State Duma (lower house) voted..
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