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Pro-Putin party suffers new setback in polls
Apr 02, 2012 12:02 EDT
President-elect Vladimir Putin suffered a tough political blow Monday after seeing his party's candidate trounced in a mayoral race that became the focus of Russia's nascent protest movement.
Putin warns against possible poll run-off
Feb 01, 2012 09:58 EST
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Wednesday acknowledged he could fail to score an outright victory in March presidential polls but warned any second round risked sparking political instability.
Putin warns ethnic tensions risk tearing Russia apart
Jan 23, 2012 13:06 EST
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has warned ethnic tensions could tear Russia apart, saying he would toughen migration rules on reassuming the presidency and keep a tight rein on Russia's regions to prevent it following the Soviet Union into oblivion.
Putin's dilemma: how to win back Russian voters?
Dec 05, 2011 14:34 EST
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian voters have sent Vladimir Putin a clear message that he must do more to keep them happy if he wants to extend his domination of the country for another 12 years.
Putin's dilemma: how to win back Russian voters?
Dec 05, 2011 14:33 EST
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian voters have sent Vladimir Putin a clear message that he must do more to keep them happy if he wants to extend his domination of the country for another 12 years.
Analysis: Putin invokes history's lions for return to Kremlin
Nov 01, 2011 07:30 EDT
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Vladimir Putin has an answer for Russians worried that his return to the presidency next year will usher in an era of stagnation: study the careers of Franklin D. Roosevelt or Charles de Gaulle.
Analysis: Putin remark fuels questions about Medvedev role
Oct 18, 2011 12:27 EDT
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Dmitry Medvedev's future role as Russia's prime minister is looking less secure after his long-time ally, Vladimir Putin, hinted that his appointment may not be a done deal.
Analysis: Journalist's murder a test case for Russia's Putin
Oct 06, 2011 11:51 EDT
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Five years after investigative journalist and Kremlin critic Anna Politkovskaya was shot dead in her apartment building, her unsolved murder is becoming a test case for Vladimir Putin on his return to Russia's presidency.
Analysis: Russian billionaire sets sights on being PM
Sep 02, 2011 07:09 EDT
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Billionaire businessman Mikhail Prokhorov is not satisfied with being one of Russia's richest people and its most eligible bachelor. He also wants to be its prime minister.
New blow for BP in Russia as office raided
Aug 31, 2011 11:13 EDT
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Black-clad special forces raided BP's Moscow offices on Wednesday, deepening the British company's problems in Russia after its attempts to salvage an oil exploration agreement in the Russian Arctic collapsed.
New blow for BP in Russia as office raided
Aug 31, 2011 11:13 EDT
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Black-clad special forces raided BP's Moscow offices on Wednesday, deepening the British company's problems in Russia after its attempts to salvage an oil exploration agreement in the Russian Arctic collapsed.
Analysis: Russia still lags on democracy 20 years after coup
Aug 16, 2011 10:12 EDT
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Twenty years after a coup in which hardline communists made a last, desperate attempt to save the Soviet Union, Russia is still traveling the long and bumpy road to democracy.
Russia emerges as unlikely energy safe haven
Mar 13, 2011 00:48 EST
Turning the page on former disappointments, the world's energy giants are flocking to Russia, whose vast resource riches look even more tempting at a time of turbulence in the Middle East.
Russian leaders argue about Soviet model
Dec 27, 2010 11:29 EST
Putin and Medvedev argue about feasibility of Soviet model. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin pointed at the Soviet model as an example of how various ethnic groups can have friendly ties, drawing a quick retort Monday from the president in a rare sign of friction between the two leaders.
Russian court delays Khodorkovsky verdict
Dec 15, 2010 06:29 EST
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Moscow court abruptly postponed the verdict in the trial of jailed tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky on Wednesday, surprising his lawyers and deepening the intrigue over a case that will test the Kremlin's will to reform Russia.
Russia blames Stalin for Katyn tragedy
Nov 26, 2010 12:45 EST
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia on Friday directly blamed Josef Stalin for the 1940 massacre of 22,000 Polish officers at Katyn in a rare condemnation of the dictator, in a vote widely seen as an attempt by Moscow to improve ties with Poland.
Russian court drops charges against sick Yukos executive
Jun 24, 2010 13:05 EDT
A court dropped criminal charges Thursday against an ailing former Yukos oil company executive, an apparent show of leniency in an epic legal saga seen as a symbol of Russia's flawed judiciary.
Exclave's 10,000-strong protest rocks Russian politics
Feb 04, 2010 08:50 EST
KALININGRAD, Russia (Reuters) - Months after losing his job, 53-year-old mechanic Alexei Dementyev trudged through heavy snow for his first opposition protest, standing with 10,000 people for a rally that shook Russia's political system.
Russia ends freeze in ties with Ukraine after election
Jan 19, 2010 14:46 EST
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Tuesday his country would end a freeze in ties with Ukraine, a move that follows the election defeat of the ex-Soviet republic's pro-Western president.
Russia ends freeze in ties with Ukraine after election
Jan 19, 2010 14:32 EST
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Tuesday his country would end a freeze in ties with Ukraine, a move that follows the election defeat of the ex-Soviet republic's pro-Western president.
