Communist may pull out of Russia election: report
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The head of Russia's biggest opposition  party is considering dropping out of the race against Kremlin  front-runner Dmitry Medvedev to be the next president, a  newspaper reported on Wednesday.
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Russian and Western leaders are sharply at odds over the country's election crisis.
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Business & money: Â· EC concern at company's grip on supply linesÂ· Russian state monopoly may be forced to divest
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Exit polls after a presidential run-off vote in Ukraine suggest pro-Western challenger Viktor Yushchenko is ahead, but he says widespread fraud might deny him a victory.
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Liberal politician Grigory Yavlinsky, a candidate in numerous Russian elections since the 1991 Soviet collapse, will not run for president next year, his spokeswoman said Friday.
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Chechnya's Kremlin-backed government on Thursday dismissed as a bluff a report on a Web site linked to separatist rebels that top leaders of the insurgency have called for a unilateral cease-fire in February.
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A U.S. bankruptcy court is likely to  revoke its temporary ban on the sale of Russian oil group  YUKOS's main production unit, lawyers said on Friday.
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Russia's top election authority on   Wednesday threw out a call for a people's poll that would clear   the way for President Vladimir Putin to stay on in power,   making it more likely he will step down as he plans in 2008.
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Russia's Central Election Commission  said on Thursday it had grounds to disqualify opposition  candidate Mikhail Kasyanov from running in a presidential  election on March 2.
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Ukraine's main opposition leader, on the eve of a trip to the U.S., warned Saturday that the former Soviet republic is at risk of sliding back under the influence of Russia.Comment
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The presidential election in Chechnya is just days away, but Moscow has already cast its highly influential vote. ULYANOVSK, Russia--Russian President Vladimir Putin unexpectedly dropped
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The board chairman of OAO Yukos said the oil company's core shareholders might sell their controlling stake, a newspaper reported Tuesday.
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Russia's Central Election Commission said on Thursday it had grounds to disqualify former prime minister Mikhail Kasyanov from running as an independent in a March presidential election, news agencies reported.
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All top managers of embattled oil major YUKOS have fled Russia fearing that state prosecutors may order their arrest, a YUKOS source says.
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Computer security expert says Russia's infrastructure could be vulnerable to electronic warfare.
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MOSCOW: Russian oil major YUKOS is poised to lose its core Siberian units, but the state will postpone its final move to dismantle the giant firm beyond next weekâs tax deadline, analysts predicted on Friday.
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Facing a relentless tide of opposition protests, embattled President Leonid Kuchma said Monday that a new election might be the only way out of a spiraling crisis that threatens to split this former Soviet republic into a pro-Russian east and a pro-Western rest of Ukraine.