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Kremlin stories: 38 news summaries

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Russia Says It Won't Deploy Missiles Near Poland

Kremlin also criticizes Iran's president for denying Holocaust

Sep 19, 09 7:11 PM CDT
(AP) - Russia said today it will scrap a plan to deploy missiles near Poland since Washington has dumped a planned missile shield in Eastern Europe. It also harshly criticized Iran's president for new comments denying the Holocaust. Neither move, however, represented ceding any significant ground. A plan to place Iskander missiles... More »

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Russia • Barack Obama • Poland • Kremlin • missile • missile defense system

 Putin Praises US 
 for Ditching 
 Missile Shield 

But Moscow may not support nuclear sanctions against Iran

Sep 18, 09 11:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - In a development sure to further tick off President Obama's critics on the right, Vladimir Putin says he's quite pleased with the decision to scrap an American missile-defense system in Eastern Europe, the New York Times reports. “I very much hope that this correct and brave decision will be... More »

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Russia • Eastern Europe • missile shield • Poland • Moscow • Vladimir Putin • Czech Republic • Kremlin • missile defense system • Western Europe • Obama administration

Putin Eyes Return to
Russian Presidency

Prime minister says he and Medvedev will decide who gets to run in 2012

Sep 12, 09 6:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - Vladimir Putin hinted yesterday that current Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is just keeping his seat warm for him until he can return to his old job in 2012, the Financial Times reports. The prime minister—barred by the constitution from seeking a third consecutive term as president last year—said... More »

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Vladimir Putin • Kremlin • United Russia • Dmitry Medvedev • Russian elections • Russian president

Novel About Corruption May Be Kremlin Official's Work

Close to Zero portrays bribes, fraud as commonplace in contemporary Russia

Aug 13, 09 4:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - A novel about a publisher navigating Russia’s complex web of political favors and payoffs may have been written by a top Kremlin official, the Moscow Times reports. Sources at Russky Pioner magazine, which published excerpts of Close to Zero before its release last month, say Vladislav Surkov, a powerful... More »

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Russia • Vladimir Putin • corruption • Kremlin • novel • Vladislav Surkov • hype • Natalya Dubovitskaya

 Putin Trip Is 
 Tough-Guy 
 Photo Op 

Official pics show Russian PM swimming, riding bareback in Siberia

Aug 4, 09 4:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - Vladimir Putin spent his vacation in southern Siberia swimming, climbing trees, and riding a horse bareback—all while shirtless. Though state news agencies portrayed the Russian prime minister’s trip as a vacation, the series of tough-guy photographs that emerged make it hard not to think he had a motive... More »

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Russia • Vladimir Putin • Siberia • Kremlin • vacation • prime minister

 'What I Did Over Summer 
 Break,' by Sasha, Malia 

From Kremlin to Paris and slave port, first kids get quite an education

Aug 2, 09 11:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sasha and Malia Obama might not be in school, but their summer vacation has been anything but lazy—the girls have seen the Eiffel Tower, the Kremlin, and Monticello as part of what the first lady calls “Camp Obama." And though there’s been plenty of fun, such... More »

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Barack Obama • Michelle Obama • family • Kremlin • Paris • vacation • Ghana • Obama administration • Malia Obama • Sasha Obama • Obama family

Russia Orders Retrial in Journalist's Murder

Supreme Court throws out acquittals in Politkovskaya case

Jun 25, 09 5:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - Russia's Supreme Court has overturned the acquittals of three men in the murder of crusading journalist Anna Politkovskaya, and ordered a retrial, reports the BBC. Prosecutors claimed that judicial irregularities and misinformation led to an improper verdict, and Politkovskaya's newspaper colleagues have accused the police of shoddy work. Despite international... More »

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Russia • Moscow • murder • Kremlin • Chechnya • journalists killed • journalist • Anna Politkovskaya • Novaya Gazeta

 Putin Hints at 2012 Comeback 

Russian PM says he may succeed
Medvedev in 2012

May 11, 09 6:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - Vladimir Putin dropped his strongest hint yet last night that he may seek to return to his country's top job in 2012. In an interview with Japanese media, Russia's president-turned-PM said there was no decision yet on whether he or Dmitry Medvedev would run for president at the end of... More »

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Russia • Vladimir Putin • Kremlin • United Russia • Dmitry Medvedev • Russian president

 Georgia Ends Coup, 
 Russia Cries Foul 

Government withdraws earlier claims of Moscow-backed coup

May 6, 09 5:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Georgian government claims to have crushed an army mutiny at a base near the capital Tbilisi, but it backed away from earlier claims that Russia was backing a coup aimed at ousting or assassinating President Mikheil Saakashvili. The plot organizer has been arrested and several others remain at large.... More »

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Russia • NATO • Georgia • Kremlin • mutiny • Mikheil Saakashvili • Georgians

OPINION

 Medvedev: 
 Obama and I 
 Must Work 
 Together 

Russian president praises and needles US in op-ed

Mar 31, 09 7:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - Relations between the US and Russia were testy, to say the least, by the end of 2008—a condition for which Dmitry Medvedev, not surprisingly, blames Washington. In a needling op-ed for the Washington Post, the Russian president writes that the proposed missile defense system and support for Georgia and... More »

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Russia • Barack Obama • diplomacy • Kremlin • Dmitry Medvedev • G20

Newly Assertive Medvedev Takes Swipe at Putin

Russian president, once seen as a puppet, castigates his mentor

Jan 12, 09 8:21 AM CST
(Newser) - Dmitry Medvedev publicly rebuked the government of Vladimir Putin yesterday for its handling of the country's severe economic crisis, in yet another sign that the Russian president is becoming increasingly independent. At a factory outside Moscow, Medvedev said the rescue was moving "more slowly than the current situation demands.... More »

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Russia • Vladimir Putin • Kremlin • Dmitry Medvedev • Russian president

Putin Pounces on Private Companies

Kremlin uses financial crisis to further its aims of 'renationalizing'

Dec 8, 08 8:42 AM CST
(Newser) - Vladimir Putin has insisted for years that Russia made a colossal mistake by privatizing the nation's giant reserves of oil, gas, and other natural resources after the fall of the Soviet Union. The president-turned-prime minister has made muscular efforts to renationalize those industries—most notoriously the Yukos oil company, whose... More »

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Russia • Vladimir Putin • nationalization • Kremlin • takeover • Yukos • financial crisis • Russian oligarchs

ANALYSIS

Medvedev, Putin Move to Tighten Grip on Russia

Extending president's term would lock in power for a generation

Nov 6, 08 7:20 AM CST
(Newser) - Dmitry Medvedev's proposal yesterday to extend the Russian president's term from 4 years to 6 looks like another step in Russia's "alarming and rapid drift towards authoritarianism," the Guardian reports. The move came as a Russian newspaper, citing sources in the Kremlin, claimed that Medvedev could resign as... More »

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Russia • Vladimir Putin • Kremlin • authoritarianism • Dmitry Medvedev • Russian president

One Place Stalin Can Win a Popularity Contest? Russia

Some may have tampered with web ballot, but brutal leader in Kremlin's top 12

Sep 25, 08 1:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - An effort to celebrate Russian nationalism has turned up an uncomfortable number of votes for Josef Stalin, the Wall Street Journal reports. The dictator blamed for the deaths of millions of Russians often led during 3 months of Internet balloting for the nation’s top historical figure, but was pushed... More »

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Russia • Kremlin • Czar Nicholas II • Stalin • popularity • Josef Stalin

 West to Put Screws to Russia

New fury at Russia's formal recognition of breakaway states

Aug 27, 08 2:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - The West is preparing to crank up diplomatic pressure on Russia after its challenging move formally recognizing breakaway Ossetia and Abkhazia in the wake of its invasion of Georgia. The US, Europe and NATO have condemned the action, but Russia remains defiant. "We are not afraid of anything, including... More »

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Russia • NATO • Angela Merkel • European Union • Vladimir Putin • Georgia • United States • David Miliband • Kremlin • Viktor Yushchenko • Yulia Tymoshenko • Mikheil Saakashvili • Dmitry Medvedev • Abkhazia • South Ossetia

 Russia Issues
 Nuke Threat
 to Poland

Nation 'exposed' to strike if it hosts US base, general warns

Aug 16, 08 8:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - A top Russian general warned yesterday that Poland would be "100% exposed" to nuclear attack if it follows through with plans to host a US missile defense system, reports the Times of London. The agreement "cannot go unpunished," the general warned in the first direct threat from... More »

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Russia • Poland • nuclear weapons • Kremlin • missile defense system • Iron Curtain

OPINION

Saakashvili: West Must Stop Russia Brutality

Moscow seeks 'new world order,' warns Georgian president

Aug 14, 08 12:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - As Russia maintains a troop presence in several Georgian cities, Mikheil Saakashvili writes in the Washington Post, "We cannot allow Georgia to become the first victim of a new world order as imagined by Moscow." The Georgian president says the international community must recognize that Russia intends to... More »

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Russia • NATO • Moscow • Georgia • Kremlin • Mikheil Saakashvili • Abkhazia • South Ossetia

 Russian Soccer's
 No. 1 Fan?
 The Kremlin 

Russian nationalism plays out on the pitch, and politicians pay out off it

Jun 26, 08 8:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - Russia's soccer team takes the field against Spain today in the Euro 2008 quarterfinals with an unlikely and ardent cheering section—the Kremlin. The team, resurging after years in decline, can thank the hefty monetary backing of an oil magnate afraid to run afoul of Moscow. And, as Josh Patashnik... More »

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Russia • Vladimir Putin • soccer • Kremlin • Gazprom • Euro 2008 • professional athletes

Opinion

Honeymoon Can't Last for Russia's Power Couple

Is Medvedev Putin's 'mini-me'?

May 17, 08 3:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - It may look like Vladimir Putin has kept Russia stable by sliding into the PM's chair; optimists even predict he'll share power politely with President Medvedev. But these lovebirds are actually destined to fight, writes Ivan Krastev in the Wall Street Journal: Eventually Medvedev will want to exercise power,... More »

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Russia • Vladimir Putin • Kremlin • power sharing • Dmitry Medvedev

 Medvedev Becomes
 President of Russia 

Putin's protégé takes office, if not power

May 7, 08 5:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - Dmitry Medvedev today became the third president of Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union. But as the 42-year-old arrives at the Kremlin, most Russians believe Vladimir Putin, who becomes PM tomorrow, will continue to wield power. The Times of London looks at Russia's new leadership, asking whether Medvedev... More »

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Russia • Vladimir Putin • Kremlin • Dmitry Medvedev

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