Putin accepts cabinet resignation
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Russian President Vladimir Putin accepts the resignation of the government of PM Mikhail Fradkov.
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A Kremlin statement issued earlier today reads that the President signed the Protocol last night. It was approved in Duma, a subwing of the Russian Parliament, and the Federal Council.
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Portugal's Prime Minister Pedro Santana Lopes announces the government's resignation.
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Outgoing Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich on Wednesday, in a decree published by the president's office.
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TOKYO, Sept. 12 -- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced Wednesday he would resign, ending a year-old government that has suffered a string of damaging scandals and a humiliating electoral defeat.
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Ukraine's outgoing President Leonid Kuchma accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich on Wednesday, but the country remains in political limbo during a drawn-out transition after last month's election.
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President Vladimir Putin chose a little-known government official to become Russia's new prime minister Wednesday, a surprise move that set off fevered speculation over whether loyal technocrat Viktor Zubkov was being groomed to replace Putin next spring.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin left  his cabinet largely unchanged in a reshuffle on Monday, with  the biggest winner Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, who was  given the additional post of deputy prime minister.
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At least one Russian ministry has signed  letters agreeing to Moscow's approval of the Kyoto Protocol, a  spokesman said Thursday, in what could be a final step in the  lengthy tussle to bring the global pact into force.
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President Vladimir Putin named a new government Monday, tapping new economics and health ministers and retaining his current foreign and defense ministers as part of an expected shuffle before crucial parliamentary and presidential elections.
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TYSOVETS, Ukraine  - Ukraine's outgoing president  accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich  Wednesday, but the country remained in political limbo during a  drawn-out transition after last month's election.
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Russia&#39;s parliament on Friday confirmed  Viktor Zubkov as prime minister.
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Viktor A. Zubkov, President Vladimir V. Putinâs little-known choice for prime minister, was confirmed by Parliament today.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin boosted the authority of Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, seen as a guarantor of economic stability, in a government reshuffle on Monday that dropped Economy Minister German Gref.
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The Russian State Duma approved President Vladimir Putin's plan to replace direct popular election of regional leaders with a system under which they would be nominated by the president.
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Kyrgyzstan's government resigned Tuesday in a dispute with parliament, adding new tension to the troubled politics of a country of strategic interest to both Russia and the United States. The resignation was accepted by President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, who has faced intensive political infighting since coming to power after March 2005 demonstrations drove longtime ruler Askar Akayev into exile.
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Party unanimously chooses Dmitry Medvedev as presidential candidate, as Putin says he would be happy to serve as prime minister