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Mikhail Gorbachev Considers Comeback, Gives Speech Knocking Kremlin

AP | MANSUR MIROVALEV | Posted 11.20.2009 | World

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MOSCOW — Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev criticized Kremlin policies Friday and toyed with the ambitious idea of attempting a political c...

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Stalin Libel Suit: Josef Stalin's Grandson Loses Case Against Newspaper

AP | Posted 10.13.2009 | World

Read More: Stalin's Family, Communism, Novaya Gazeta, Moscow, Russia, Libel, Kremlin, Josef Stalin, Soviet Union, Putin, Nazi-Soviet Pact, Stalin's Grandson, Stalinism, Stalin on Trial, Yevgeny Dzhugashvili, World News

MOSCOW (AP)- A Russian court ruled against Josef Stalin's grandson Tuesday in a libel suit over a newspaper article that said the Soviet dictator sent...

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Clan Politics Unite Caracas, Moscow, and Tehran

Robert Amsterdam | Posted 11.18.2009 | World

Read More: Energy, Russia, Hugo Chavez, Venezuela, Clans, Igor Sechin, Robert Amsterdam, Kremlin, Iran, Business, Dmitry Medvedev, Foreign Policy, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Oil, Vladimir Putin, Natural Gas, Moscow, Pdvsa, Rosneft, World News

Nearly all analyses of important international relationships, whether internal or external, see the countries' systems through a prism that hides the power of clans and cabals.

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Russia: Suicide Truck Bomb Kills At Least 20

AP | SHAMSUDIN BOKOV, Associated Press Writer | Posted 09.17.2009 | World

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NAZRAN, Russia (AP) - A suicide bomber exploded a truck at a police station in Russia's North Caucasus on Monday, killing at least 20 people and wound...

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Russia Huffs and Puffs as the House Comes Down

Robert Amsterdam | Posted 09.12.2009 | World

By creating manageable confrontations with Europe, the U.S, and former Soviet states, the Kremlin is attempting to govern outwardly, diminishing pressures for greater domestic accountability.

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Are Russia's Arms Deals to Venezuela Destablizing Central America?

Robert Amsterdam | Posted 08.28.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Hugo Chavez, Venezuela, Joseph Biden, Robert Amsterdam, Igor Sechin, Kremlin, Arms, Business, Dmitry Medvedev, Foreign Policy, Human Rights, United States, Washington, Oil, Vladimir Putin, Hillary Clinton, Moscow, Caracas, Security, World News

The grotesque level of corruption in both Russia and Venezuela should stimulate the discussion as to whether their predatory natures constitute not only an international crime, but also a breach of fundamental human rights.

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Honduras... The Big Backstory

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 08.20.2009 | World

Read More: Iran-Contra, Otto Reich, Chicago, Havana, Arias, Obama, Ros-Lehtinen, South America, Ortega, China, Organization of American States, Iran, Oas, Zelaya, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Harry Potter, Panama Canal, Nicaragua, Bill Clinton, Hugo Chavez, Mara Salvatrucha, Latin America, Kremlin, Venezuela, Hugo Llorens, Israel, Hillary Clinton, Gangs, Hutchinson Whampoa, Cuba, Soto Cano, War on Drugs, Palmerola, Sandinista, Dea, Mossad, World News

The White House denounced the action in Honduras as "illegal." But that call requires Washington to cut off all but humanitarian aid and could jeopardize the big Soto Cano base outside Tegucigalpa.

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Obama Does Moscow, and Vice Versa

William Bradley | Posted 08.08.2009 | World

Read More: Bishkek, Russia, Islamic Jihadist, Boris Yeltsin, Ussr, Kremlin, Iraq, Georgia, Vladimir Putin, Soviet Union, Dacha, Ukraine, Kgb, Iran, Chechnya, Nato, Barack Obama, Kyrgyzstan, George W. Bush, Poland, Gazprom, Manas, Moscow, Afghanistan, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, Grozny, John McCain, Dmitri Medvedev, Czech Republic, Fsb, Dick Cheney, World News

Unlike most of the rest of Europe, Russia is hardly in the grips of Obamamania. He's certainly more popular than George W. Bush or John McCain, but that's damning with faint praise.

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Kremlin Shuts Down All Casinos In Russia

nytimes.com | CLIFFORD J. LEVY | Posted 07.30.2009 | World

Read More: Layoffs, Economic Crisis, Casinos in Russia, Russian Casinos, Kremlin, Siberia, Putin, World News

The government is shutting down every last legal casino and slot-machine parlor across the land, under an antivice plan promoted by Vladimir V. Putin ...

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Poland Caused WWII: Russian Report

AP | MIKE ECKEL | Posted 07.05.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Russian Defense Ministry, Russia Poland, Poland Wwii, Wwii, World War II, World War 2, Poland Caused Wwii, Kremlin, The Kremlin, Joseph Stalin, Ukraine, Adolf Hitler, Germany, World News

MOSCOW — As the Kremlin presses a campaign to recast Russia's 20th century history in a more favorable light, a research paper published Thursda...

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Putin's First Column: 'Why It's Hard To Fire People'

The Independent | Posted 06.27.2009 | World

By Shaun Walker in Moscow | The Independent In the past year he's been painting pictures, singing songs, and demonstrating his expert judo moves. Th...

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'Kremlin's School Of Bloggers' Marks Russia's Embrace Of Web 2.0

Foreign Policy | Posted 06.27.2009 | World

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One of the Kremlin's pet new media projects has been a site called liberty.ru. It's been set up under the auspices of the Fund for Effective Politics,...

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Vladimir Putin Possibly Laying Groundwork For Presidential Return

Telegraph | Posted 06.13.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Vladmir Putin, Foreign Affairs, Kremlin, Vladimir Putin, Putin Presidential Return, Putin, Dmitry Medvedev, Advocacy, World News

The Russian prime minister, Vladimir Putin, has been accused of plotting his return as president after the Kremlin announced plans to strip judges of ...

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Russia Threatened By Energy Wars Soon: Kremlin

Reuters | Posted 06.13.2009 | World

Read More: Energy, Russia, Gas Prices, Caspian Sea, Energy War, Foreign Affairs, The Coming Gas Wars, Oil, Kremlin, European Union, Dmitry Medvedev, China, Advocacy, World News

Russia may face wars on its borders in the near future over control of energy resources, a Kremlin document on security policy said on Wednesday....

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Sochi Mayoral Election: Kremlin Favorite Wins As Opposition Candidate Claims Fraud

AP | STEVE GUTTERMAN | Posted 05.28.2009 | World

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SOCHI, Russia — The Kremlin favorite won an overwhelming victory in the mayoral election in the Russian city hosting the 2014 Winter Olympics, a...

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Medvedev Interview: Russian President Breaks From Putin In Landmark Interview With Opposition Newspaper

Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 05.16.2009 | World

Breaking with the tone established by his predecessor Vladimir Putin, Russian President Dmitri Medvedev stated outright in an interview with a well-kn...

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Igor Panarin: U.S. Will Collapse By Next Year

AP | MIKE ECKEL | Posted 04.04.2009 | Politics

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MOSCOW — If you're inclined to believe Igor Panarin, and the Kremlin wouldn't mind if you did, then President Barack Obama will order martial la...

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Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Anti-Putin Oil Tycoon, Gets New Trial

AP | MANSUR MIROVALEV | Posted 03.27.2009 | World

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MOSCOW — Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky has been transferred from his Siberian prison to Moscow for a new trial, a court official and l...

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Russia's Economic Crisis Leads To Mounting Protests

The Independent | By Shaun Walker in Moscow | Posted 03.05.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Anti-Kremlin Protests, Moscow Protests, Tiger, Kremlin, Vladimir Putin, Moscow, Russia Protests, Dmitry Medvedev, Russia Economy, The Society for Proactive Russian Citizens, World News

The Kremlin's rule is beginning to look much shakier than at any time since Vladimir Putin came to power, after a series of protests in cities across ...

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Moscow Riot Police Flown In To Smash Protests Against Car Tariffs In Vladivostok

Times Online | Times Online | Posted 01.21.2009 | World

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Riot police flown in from Moscow clubbed, kicked and arrested dozens of people in Russia's Far East today as hundreds across the country demonstrated ...

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Russian Police Thwart Anti-Kremlin Rally, Arrest 25

AP | PAUL SONNE | Posted 01.14.2009 | World

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MOSCOW — Police thwarted a banned anti-Kremlin protest in central Moscow on Sunday, seizing dozens of demonstrators and shoving them into trucks...

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Russian President Medvedev Heckled At Kremlin (VIDEO)

AP | Posted 01.12.2009 | World

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MOSCOW — It's not every day that Kremlin gets a heckler. President Dmitry Medvedev was giving a speech to scientists and bureaucrats Friday mar...

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Rumors Of The Next Cold War

Judah Freed | Posted 09.18.2008 | Home

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No matter how subtly the conquest happens, Russian control of Georgia would amount to an historic shift in the balance of power -- especially as long as the world economy is fueled by oil.

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A Humble American Meets The Superrich, In-Your-Face "New Russia"

Dana Kennedy | Posted 06.18.2008 | Business

Read More: Rolex, Victoria Lepyrova, HD Net's World Report, Minigarch, Prada, Russia, HD Net, Rublevka, Kremlin, Max Tikhonov, Victor Shkulev, Timati, Gucci, Business News

During a week spent with multi-millionaires, club kids, publishing tycoons, beauty queens, reformed gangsters and Russia's biggest rap star - I often felt the object of pity and scorn.

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NYET: Putin Opponents Vanish From Russian TV

New York Times | CLIFFORD J. LEVY | Posted 06.10.2008 | Media

Read More: Kremlin Opponents, Kremlin, Russian Stop List, Free Media Russia, Kremlin Media Blacklist, Russia Media, Russian Opposition, Media News

On a talk show last fall, a prominent political analyst named Mikhail G. Delyagin had some tart words about Vladimir V. Putin. When the program was la...

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