Russia&#39;s new czar?
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Is Russia sliding back into czar-like autocracy, after a brief liberation from Soviet dictatorship? The leaders who ushered in democracy fear so, as President Vladimir Putin pushes to centralize yet more power in his own busy hands.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, who will step down next year, may have a surprise choice for his preferred successor, state news agency RIA Novosti said on Friday, quoting a senior Kremlin aide.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin may respond to the recent terrorist attacks, including last week&#39;s Beslan school siege that left at least 333 dead and 260 missing, by overhauling the former Soviet nation&#39;s security forces.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, who will step down next year after eight years in power, may have a surprise choice for his preferred successor, state news agency RIA Novosti said on Friday, quoting a senior Kremlin aide.
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President Vladimir Putin appears unlikely to be confronted by a Ukrainian-style revolution in Russia as a whole anytime soon, but he may face something almost as troubling -- the possibility of "an amber ...
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The Russian press offers a mixed reaction to the new Ukrainian president's fence-mending visit.
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Is Russia giving up on democracy? Russian President Vladimir Putin certainly seems to be suggesting that possibility. He introduced a plan that would restrict elections in Russia and would &quot;radically restructure
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The Russian government&#39;s fascination with appearances has a long history. Be it Potemkin villages, political show trials, or rigged privatizations, government fixers have always had a flair for deception.
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On Monday Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the biggest shake-up of Russia&#39;s political system since its 1993 adoption of a post-Soviet constitution, drawing heaps of scorn from both the Russian and international press.
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UKRAINE remains an indepen dent state. For now. But last week&#39;s shamelessly rigged presidential-election results were engineered by Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin&#39;s security services.
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Chechnya&#39;s new Kremlin-backed president was sworn in Tuesday, taking the helm of this wartorn Russian region under heavy guard nearly five months after his predecessor
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The interim outcome of the Ukrainian presidential elections, just like the interim in the votes in Abkhazia (a self-proclaimed republic in Georgia), have cast doubts over Russia s influence on the election ...
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KIEV The question used to be &quot;Who lost Russia?&quot; In a few years, it may be &quot;Who rebuilt the Soviet empire?&quot;. Ukraine&#39;s presidential election on Sunday could determine whether Russia remains a national state or begins to resurrect its empire.
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It is not often that you sit down for nearly four hours, until after midnight, with a world leader. It is especially strange when that man is Vladimir Putin, hardly regarded as the most forthcoming of interlocutors.
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A plan by Russian gas  giant Gazprom to build a skyscraper in historic St Petersburg  is an object lesson in how power and influence work in Vladimir  Putin&#39;s Russia.
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President Vladimir V. Putin added fresh uncertainty today into the question of who might succeed him.
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MOSCOW, Sep 17 (IPS) - The appointment of obscure politician Viktor Zubkov  as new Prime Minister by President Vladimir Putin raises critical  questions about the political successor to the presidency.