Vladimir Putin
U.S. Vice president meets Putin, Russian rights campaigners
March 10, 2011U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has met with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin during a visit to Moscow aimed at building on the "reset" in ties between the two nations. Although the visit focuses largely on trade, Biden took time to talk...
March 07, 2011Chisinau / Moldova.ORG/ -- The White House announced the departure of the United States vice president, Joe Bidden, in a diplomatic tour in Finland, Russia and Moldova to consult with Washington’s partners on regional and global issues. In each...
Mr. Putin’s Billion-dollar palace
March 05, 2011The scope of corruption in Vladimir Putin’s Russia has been much discussed, documented in expert reports and quantified in international ratings. Transparency International estimates the country’s annual corruption market at $300 billion;...
Mr. Putin on trial (Literally)
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February 17, 2011Vladimir Putin on trial in Moscow — an almost unimaginable idea in the context of today’s Russia. Yet the precedent, albeit in a somewhat farcical way, was set earlier this week as a Russian court — for the first time in Mr. Putin...
Russian government displays little innovation in improving security situation
February 10, 2011On February 7, the leader of the North Caucasian insurgency, Doku Umarov, claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing attack at Moscow’s Domodedovo airport on January 24, which killed 36 people and wounded over 100. In an unusually politicized...
The Maidan on the Tahrir Square is bad news for Putin
February 09, 2011Russian mainstream media provides extensive coverage of the unfolding revolution in the streets of Cairo, in contrast with China where the word Egypt is banned from the news and blocked in the Internet. Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, is not known for...
Caucasus Islamic rebel leader claims responsibility for airport bombing
February 08, 2011An Islamic rebel leader in Russia's North Caucasus region claims he ordered last month's suicide bombing at a busy Moscow airport, killing 35 people. Doku Umarov makes the claim in a video posted Monday on an Islamic rebel website. The veteran Chechen...
Senator Lugar: Washington must pressure Russia on Moldova
February 08, 2011The United States should step up efforts to assist the pro-Western government in Moldova by pressuring Russia to resolve a separatist movement in the former Soviet state, according to a Senate report released Monday. Senator Richard Lugar, the highest...
Ilie Ilascu: Vladimir Putin ordered and Igor Smirnov executed
February 01, 2011Moldovan media on the Transnistrian conflict ten years ago.... "It is true that Russia put pressure on Transnistria to liberate me ... But if Romania would not have dealt with this issue after I became citizen of Romania, Russia would not have...
Russian politics turns towards Putin’s new presidency
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February 01, 2011During the past month, President Dmitry Medvedev has turned into a disappearing and irrelevant figure in the Russian political arena. His lame-duck status was established beyond any reasonable doubt by the unreasonably harsh verdict against Mikhail...