Russian Adviser Stripped of Some Duties
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday stripped many of the duties of his top economic advisor - an outspoken critic who has accused the Kremlin of trying to muzzle voices of dissent and civil society in ...
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European election observers cited severe restrictions imposed on their work by the Russian government.
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Russia's defense minister has resigned, the country's new prime minister said Tuesday, announcing the departure of his own son-in-law in the beginning of what is expected to be a Cabinet-wide shake up.
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Russia has begun an effort to curtail the activities of election observers in the states of the former Soviet Union.
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TBILISI, Georgia -- Russia recalled its ambassador, announced the evacuation of its diplomats, and protested to the United Nations yesterday after Georgia detained five Russian officers on spying charges, bringing relations between the former Soviet neighbors to a new low.
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Relations between Britain and Russia take sharp dive over Litvinenko case.
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Russia on Thursday recalled its ambassador from Georgia and announced a partial evacuation of diplomats and their families from the former Soviet republic as relations between the two countries hit a new low.
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President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday accepted the resignation of the secretary of his Security Council, an advisory post that in the past has served as a political springboard.
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Belarus' authoritarian president dismissed his chief of staff Monday and replaced him with a longtime associate who was implicated by a European rights group in disappearances of opposition figures five years ago.
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Russia has expelled four British diplomats, days after Britain expelled four Russian diplomats in a row over Moscow's refusal to hand over a suspect in the poisoning death of an ex-KGB spy.
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LONDON  -  A former KGB agent who had accused the Russian security services of involvement in several killings was transferred to intensive care Monday after British doctors confirmed he had been the victim of ...Comment
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Russia began pulling out some of its  diplomats and their families from Georgia on Friday as the  small ex-Soviet state pressed spying charges against a group of  Russian army officers.
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President Viktor Yushchenko stripped two key figures in his poisoning of honorary rank Monday, taking way away their benefits and prestigious titles.
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Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger,   a national security adviser to President Bill Clinton, was voluntarily disbarred from the practice of law yesterday by the D.C. Court of Appeals.
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A leading Russian TV presenter has been suspended for a sarcastic comment on air about a colleague's sacking.
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A former Russian spy poisoned in Britain and now hospitalized under guard may have been targeted for his criticism of former colleagues and his investigation into the killing of a prominent anti-Kremlin ...Comment
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday stripped many of the duties of his top economic adviser -- an outspoken critic who has accused the Kremlin of trying to muzzle voices of dissent and civil society in ...