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In the modern world, stability is an asset which can only be earned by hard work, by showing openness to change and readiness for thought-out, calculated reforms
President Vladimir Putin says his supporters should consider another location for their upcoming rally. Some 200,000 demonstrators are planning to march along Tverskaya Street in central Moscow and end up on Manezhnaya Square. The Moscow Mayor’s Office...
PR stunt in which Vladimir Putin was presented with water from Lake Vostok, a huge body of water deep under the Antarctic ice, has come unstuck after an official admitted the water did not actually come from the lake. The Russian prime minister was...
Two senior editorial figures have been removed from the board of directors in a reshuffle at Radio Echo of Moscow. It is one of Russia’s few independent outlets, and is often critical of prime minister and presidential challenger Vladimir Putin. One of...
Russian Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin supporters gather near the government headquarters to show their support on St.Valentine's Day in downtown Moscow on Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012. A poster in Cyrillic reads : For Putin. I want... View Photo »
Vladimir Putin has chosen direct address and direct appeal. I think he will be heard by people.
Putin’s latest article on social policy left me with two questions. Putin once again describes how flawed the current system is. So why hasn’t Putin sorted it all out? After all, he has been running Russia for the past 12 years, and the country was...
Ekho Moskvy – or Echo of Moscow – has been a fixture in Russia since just before the collapse of the Soviet Union, a favorite of the intelligentsia, a relentless critic of Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin and, many believe, a safety valve in a country...
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (Russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Пу́тин?·i Russian pronunciation: [vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr vlɐˈdʲimʲɪrəvʲɪt͡ɕ ˈputʲɪn]; born 7 October 1952 in Leningrad, USSR; now Saint Petersburg, Russia) was the second President of Russia and is the current Prime Minister of Russia as well as chairman of United Russia and Chairman of the... Full Article
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, left, visits a hospital during his trip to Kurgan, Russia, on Monday, Feb. 13, 2012.
View Photo »Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, right, greets a boy during his trip to Kurgan, Russia, on Monday, Feb. 13, 2012.
View Photo »Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (2nd L) drinks tea with students as he visits a high school in the Urals city of Kurgan, on February 13, 2012. After serving two consecutive presidential terms between 2000 and 2008 and a term as prime minister, Putin is seeking a third term in the...
View Photo »Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, second left, meets with students during a visit to a school in Kurgan, Russia, Monday, Feb. 13, 2012.
View Photo »Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, center, speaks as he visits a school in Kurgan on Monday, Feb. 13, 2012.
View Photo »A green traffic light illuminates a transparent image of Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, which was apparently stuck to the device by the Russian strongman’s supporters in central Moscow, on February 13, 2012. After serving two consecutive presidential terms between 2000 and...
View Photo »Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, at right in back, flanked by Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin, at left in back, meets with participants of the KVN show, a popular Russian comic TV show, in Moscow, Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012.
View Photo »Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, left, meets with natural resources and ecology minister Yuri Trutnev in Moscow on Friday, Feb. 10, 2012. Trutnev presented Putin with a canister containing water taken from the boreshaft drilled to Lake Vostok under Antarctica.
View Photo »Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin looks as he visits theEmergencies Ministry headquarters in Moscow, on February 9, 2012. Putin, who is seeking to reclaim his old Kremlin job in presidential polls early next month, is wrestling with the most acute crisis of his 12-year rule as...
View Photo »Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, top, chairs a Cabinet meeting in Moscow, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012.
View Photo »Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (top) chairs a Cabinet meeting in the government headquarters in Moscow, on February 9, 2012. Putin suggested today that all tycoons who made fortunes in the controversial privatisation deals of the 1990s pay a one-off fee to the state.
View Photo »Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (top) chairs a meeting of the Government Presidium at the Russian White House, headquarters of the federal government, in Moscow February 9, 2012.
View Photo »Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with religious leaders in the Danilov Monastery in Moscow, on February 8, 2012.
View Photo »Russian Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin supporters gather near the government headquarters to show their support on St.Valentine's Day in downtown Moscow on Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012. A poster in Cyrillic reads : For Putin. I want Very Much.
View Photo »Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin gestures as he takes part in a conference held by the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs in Moscow February 9, 2012. Putin, seeking to return to the presidency in an election next month, said on Thursday large Russian companies...
View Photo »A character representing the 'Russian Bear' turns a wheel of fortune with the images of Russian president Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on a float during last preparations for Monday's carnival parade in Cologne, Germany Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012. Poster on top of the...
View Photo »Russian Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin, right, enters a conference of the Union of Industrialists in downtown Moscow on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012. The head of the Russian Union of Industrialists Alexander Shokhin walks at left.
View Photo »Russian Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin, right, speaks with Vasily Stolyar, left, vice president of the Adventist Church in the Euro-Asia region, and Bishop Sergei Ryakhovsky, second left, the head of Russia�s Pentecostalists during his meeting with Russia's religious...
View Photo »Russian Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin, right front, meets with Russia's religious leaders in the St. Daniel Monastery in Moscow, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012. From left, Russia's chief rabbi Berel Lazar, Chairman of Federation of Russia's Jewish Organizations...
View Photo »Russian Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin, right, shakes hands with spiritual leader of Russian Buddhists, Pandito Hambo Lama Damba Ayusheyev during his meeting with Russia's religious leaders in the St. Daniel Monastery in Moscow, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012.
View Photo »Russian Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin, right, speaks with Secretary General of the Conference of Russian Catholic Bishops Igor Kovalevsky, left, and spiritual leader of Russian Buddhists, Pandito Hambo Lama Damba Ayusheyev, second left, during his meeting with...
View Photo »Russian Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin, left, speaks at his meeting with Russia's religious leaders in the St. Daniel Monastery in Moscow, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012.
View Photo »The wax figures of Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (L), former St. Petersburg mayor Anatoly Sobchak (C) and former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev are seen at a wax museum in St. Petersburg February 8, 2012.
View Photo »Russian Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin, right, and Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill, left, attend a meeting with Russia's religious leaders in the St. Daniel Monastery in Moscow, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012.
View Photo »Russian Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin, center, flanked by Supreme Mufti of Russia Talgat Tadzhuddin, right, Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill, second left, and Metropolitan Yuvenaly of Krutitsa and Kolomna, left, attends a meeting with Russia's religious leaders...
View Photo »Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, left, visits a hospital during his trip to Kurgan, Russia, on Monday, Feb. 13, 2012.
View Photo »In the modern world, stability is an asset which can only be earned by hard work, by showing openness to change and readiness for thought-out, calculated reforms
Vladimir Putin has chosen direct address and direct appeal. I think he will be heard by people.
Even the very good intentions cannot justify violation of international laws and state sovereignty
It is true that the post-Soviet period of our development is already in the past. We went through the period of scattering stones, now it is time to gather stones and Vladimir Putin can stand at the head of the integration process.
We enter a new social reality. Educational revolution reshapes society and economy drastically. We must learn to use the educational drive, to mobilize the middle class expectations and readiness to take responsibility for the nation's prosperity and sustainable development
The inside story on a new documentary on Russian president Vladimir Putin
We will lose out if we only rely on decisions of bureaucrats, large investors and state corporations ... We will lose out if we encourage the passive position of the people.
I would advise Vladimir Putin to leave now. He has had three terms: two as president and one as prime minister. Three terms - that is enough
Russia’s growth over the next decades means expanding freedoms for each of us
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin have been invited to attend the State Duma's first session. The leaders have not so far confirmed their attendance but parliament members and Duma staff nevertheless hope they'll arrive.
What concerns me is that we are having almost no discussions about what we have to do outside the election frameworks, after the elections
Reactions to Vladimir Putin‘s decision to leave his place at the head of United Russia’s party list to Dmitry Medvedev
Today, there is a lot of talk about various forms of political renewal
What do you think of Vladimir Putin‘s decision to ‘offer’ Dmitry Medvedev a place at the head of United Russia’s party list?
Our task for the years ahead is to remove everything that prevents us from going forward from the path of national development
Vladimir Putin has tried to create the illusion of stability and success, and warned others not to rock the boat
Fundamentally, what the world is facing today is a serious systemic crisis, a tectonic process of global transformation. This is a visible manifestation of a transition to a new cultural, economic, technological and geopolitical era
Vladimir Putin accepts presidential nomination
Ten to eleven percent of our nationals are still beyond the poverty line due to various reasons. We must solve this problem by the end of the decade, overcoming poverty which is unacceptable for a developed country
There is no more successful, experienced or popular politician in Russia than Vladimir Putin
For that, we should use both state resources and efforts of society, of its interested and active part
Every Russian citizen knows the leader of our party, Vladimir Putin, and he is, without any exaggeration, the most respected politician in Russia
We know that ... representatives of some countries meet with those whom they pay money, the so-called grant recipients, give them instructions and guidance for what 'work' they need to do to influence the election campaign in our country
Young people, especially girls, know only Vladimir Putin and United Russia.
I would like to once again stress that if the voters trust us with forming the government, that is they vote for United Russia and me as the Russian president, Dmitry Anatolyevich would undoubtedly head the government
