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"Such a system as [Russian Prime Minister Vladimir] Putin's is exactly a target for destruction. It needs to be destroyed."
Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev
Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev
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Russia's Foreign Ministry is asking the government to suspend adoptions of Russian children by U.S. nationals following an "incessant string of crimes" allegedly committed by American adoptive parents. Today at 16:15 | Associated Press |
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was unable to meet with the PACE pre-electoral delegation due to his busy schedule, but PACE is still hoping to meet with Putin before the election day. Today at 13:24 | Interfax-Ukraine |
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ST.PETERSBURG, Feb 10 (Reuters) - President Dmitry Medvedev dismissed the police chief of St. Petersburg, Russia's second largest city, on Friday after he had complained about an internal inquiry into the death of a teenager alleged to have been beaten by police. Yesterday at 21:37 | Reuters |
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ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — Russia's president has fired the police chief of St. Petersburg, where a 15-year-old boy died after being beaten while in police custody. Yesterday at 20:48 | Associated Press |
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MOSCOW (AP) —A rash of teenage suicides in Russia has set off alarm bells and experts are urging the government to take immediate action. Yesterday at 19:21 | Associated Press |
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MOSCOW (AP) —A military court on Friday convicted a Russian officer of providing the CIA with secret information on Russia's new intercontinental ballistic missiles and sentenced him to 13 years in prison. Yesterday at 19:13 | Associated Press |
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MOSCOW, Feb 10 (Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin received a drink fit for dinosaurs on Friday when he was presented with a sample of ancient water from a sub-glacial Antarctic lake pierced by Russian scientists. Yesterday at 18:58 | Reuters |
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MOSCOW — Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Friday praised the Russian scientists who have reached a gigantic freshwater lake in Antarctica hidden under more than two miles (3.2 kilometers) of ice, a pristine body of water that may hold life from the distant past. Yesterday at 15:30 | Associated Press |
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MOSCOW - Vladimir Putin has tamed the gangster capitalism which accompanied the collapse of the Soviet Union to make Russian corruption "normal and civilised", his presidential election campaign chief said in an interview published on Friday. Yesterday at 14:50 | Reuters |
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MOSCOW — A Russian security agency says a Russian military officer has been convicted of passing missile secrets to the CIA and sentenced to 13 years in prison. Yesterday at 14:08 | Associated Press |
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MOSCOW - The organizers of a series of opposition actions entitled 'For Fair Elections' plan a number of mass events in Moscow within the next month, including a rally on March 5 following the outcome of the presidential election scheduled for March 4, Sergei Udaltsov, a coordinator of the opposition group Left Front, told Interfax on Friday, Feb. 10 Yesterday at 11:02 | Interfax-Ukraine |
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TBILISI, Georgia — A candidate who claims victory in the presidential election in Georgia's breakaway province of South Ossetia has been hospitalized after a police raid on her headquarters. Yesterday at 10:42 | Associated Press |
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MOSCOW — Russian lawmakers are voicing strong support for the Kremlin's action to shield Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime from international sanctions over its crackdown on a 11-month old uprising. Yesterday at 10:04 | Associated Press |
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MOSCOW - More than 2,500 warming shelters have opened in several Russian regions due to the abnormally cold weather, Russian Emergency Situations Minister Sergei Shoigu said. Yesterday at 09:52 | Interfax-Ukraine |
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MOSCOW, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said on Thursday Russia faced turmoil because Vladimir Putin was unable and unwilling to carry out fundamental reform of a tightly-controlled political system. 2 days ago at 20:34 | Reuters |