Prophets, it is said, are supposed to be without honor in their homeland. Yet Moscow has just witnessed the extraordinary sight of Alexander Solzhenitsyn - the dissident and once-exiled author of "The Gulag Archipelago" and "One Day in the Life of...
Launching a scathing attack on the corruption and inefficiency of Russia's
vast bureaucracy, Mr Medvedev said he would take personal charge of a
database of specialists who could be drafted into the country's "nomenklatura"
civil service.
Under...
The muddy lot in a working-class section of St. Petersburg is filled with debris and gives no hint of the city’s shabby grandeur. But housed there in a beat-up building behind a turbine factory is the sports club that helped form so much of...
MOSCOW, Russia (AP) -- Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is calling for Russia to regain its influential position in former Cold War ally Cuba, Russian news reports said Monday.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin participates in a Cabinet...
Background
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (Russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Пу́тин (help·info) Russian pronunciation: [vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr vlɐˈdʲimʲɪrəvʲɪt͡ɕ ˈputʲɪn]) (born October 7, 1952, in Leningrad, U.S.S.R., now Saint Petersburg, Russia) is a Russian politician who was the 2nd President of the Russian Federation from 2000 to 2008 and is the current Prime Minister of Russia as well as the chairman of United Russia. He became acting President on December 31, 1999, succeeding Boris Yeltsin, and then won the 2000 presidential election. In 2004, he was re-elected for a second term lasting until May 7, 2008.
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