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Kurginyan told a news conference. “They are threatening to bring thousands of people out on to the streets and paralyze Moscow.” Kurginyan has gained prominence of late as a conservative figurehead and was one of the main speakers at a January 4 mass...
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21, 2012, 9:43 AM — Hackers have started attacking the huge network of web cameras installed by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to publically monitor voting in the country's forthcoming presidential elections. As the first two cameras in the...
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A Russian police officer walks past a cordon of activists from the opposition movement "Another Russia", who threw a smoke bomb during a protest outside the central election commission headquarters in Moscow February 12, 2012. The activists are... View Photo »
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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
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Over the next decade, Putin writes, $772 billion to be spent on 400 new intercontinental ballistic missiles, 2,300 late-generation tanks, 600 modern combat aircraft – including at least 100 military-purpose space planes – eight nuclear ballistic...
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The cleric also predicted that Russia will “comprehensively explain” to the rest of the world that it can ensure both its own safety and the global stability as a whole. Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin believes that harsher penalties should be...
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Prime Minister and presidential hopeful Vladimir Putin has published a program article, outlining his stance on the national security. Among other issues, the Russian premier shed light on some perspectives of the Armed Forces re-equipment. The figures...
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Russia's Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin (L) looks on as he visits Interior Ministry Academy in the Siberian city of Barnaul, on February 21, 2012. After serving two consecutive presidential terms between 2000 and 2008 and a... View Photo »
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The inside story on a new documentary on Russian president Vladimir Putin
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$84 billion, accelerating toward the end of the year due to the euro zone credit crunch and investor concerns over street protests against alleged ballot fraud in the December 4 parliamentary elections. But with presidential elections drawing nearer and...
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Violist Yuri Bashmet compares Russian leader Vladimir Putin to the great violin-maker Antonio Stradivari, saying that his "golden period is yet far ahead." One of the country's most loved actors, Oleg Tabakov, says Putin has his vote in the March 4...
About Vladimir Putin
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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
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Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin hands over a medal of Russian Empire reformist Pyotr Stolypin to Mintimer Shaimiyev, a former leader of the oil-rich Tatarstan region, in the city of Naberezhnye Chelny, on February 15, 2012. After serving two consecutive presidential terms between...
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, right, shakes hands with a girl, as he visits the Research Center for Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Immunology in Moscow, Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012.
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A journalist looks on February 10, 2012 at a book book entitled 'Vladimir Putin. Parents. Friends. Teachers' written by the Russian strongman's teacher Vera Gurevich. The book, published in 2004, traces Putin's early life, from his hardscrabble childhood to school and early career years.
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Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (L) a Perinatal Center in the Urals region 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 March 4 presidential election.
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Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (R) and his deputy Vladislav Surkov take part in a meeting on the modernization of the secondary education in the Urals city of Kurgan, on February 13, 2012, with a portrait of famous Russian writer Nikolai Gogol (background). After serving two...
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