Putin's party to name candidate
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Russia's biggest political party is due to confirm Putin aide Dmitri Medvedev as its candidate for the presidency.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on  Sunday set December 2 as the date for the next parliamentary  election, starting the countdown for what is seen as a dress  rehearsal for the 2008 presidential vote.
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President Vladimir Putin pledged on  Thursday to give Russians a "free democratic choice" in next  year's presidential election and said he would express his own  preferences during the campaign.
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President Vladimir Putin's favored successor is best placed to win Russia's presidential election, a poll showed on Thursday as Putin critic Garry Kasparov pulled out of the contest.
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Dmitry Medvedev, President Vladimir Putin's chosen successor, will win 71 percent of the votes in March's Russian presidential election, state-owned pollster VTsIOM predicted on Thursday.
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President Vladimir Putin on Thursday promoted close ally Sergei Ivanov to the position of first deputy prime minister but replaced him as defense minister in a personnel reshuffle a little more than a year ahead of Russia's presidential elections.
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MOSCOW -- President Vladimir Putin promoted his hawkish defense minister to a top government post yesterday, a move that puts Putin's two heirs apparent on equal footing before next year's election to replace the popular leader.
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President Vladimir Putin has appointed a firebrand nationalist as Russia's permanent representative to NATO as the Kremlin takes a more assertive stance with its Cold War foe.
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President Vladimir Putin has appointed a firebrand nationalist who champions re-armament to counter the West as Russia's permanent representative to NATO, a Kremlin spokeswoman said on Thursday.
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Russia's parliament is expected to vote overwhelmingly on Friday to approve President Vladimir Putin's nominee for prime minister, political unknown Viktor Zubkov.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin promotes a close ally in a reshuffle ahead of next year's presidential elections.
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MOSCOW -- President Vladimir Putin seems to quietly delight in stoking the fevered speculation about who will succeed him when he steps down, as he has promised to do, following presidential elections in March.
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Campaigning officially  started on Saturday in the Russian presidential election, but  Vladimir Putin's chosen successor has said he is too busy  working to canvass for votes.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin is likely to pick a well-known figure to succeed him rather than springing a surprise on electors, a Kremlin spokesman said.
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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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MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin yesterday nominated a longtime associate who is a largely anonymous figure to be the country's new prime minister, scrambling predictions about who will be the Kremlin-backed candidate in next March's presidential election.
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MOSCOW, Oct. 25 -- Created by the Kremlin just last year and anticipating a bright future, the political party Fair Russia was designed to be the junior partner in a "two-party system" in which everyone pledges fealty to President Vladimir Putin. But with Dec. 2 parliamentary elections imminent, the...