We know Kissinger spoke to Putin the week previous to the Bush-Putin mini summit. |
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Purvanov was in Moscow on a three-day official state visit, starting from July 6, at the invitation of Putin. |
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But recovery is on the way under the tough new administration of President Vladimir Putin. |
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Late Tuesday, Putin confirmed that Nikolai Fyodorov would serve a fourth term as president of the Chuvash republic. |
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President Putin tried to redress the balance by warning against ethnic witch-hunts. |
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The three journalists who interviewed Putin for this book are pleasingly sassy on occasion. |
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Upon hearing the news the Putin regime in Moscow was said to be spitting feathers. |
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Putin was saddled with social commitments and expectations inherited from Soviet days that were wildly beyond his means to meet. |
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Neither Chinese President Xi Jinping nor Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed the alleged alliance contra mundum. |
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On the one hand, Putin sought to re-evaluate the international status of the Kremlin through a strengthening of the Berlin-Moscow axis. |
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Rather, he manoeuvred and tried to reconcile his loyalty towards Putin with his support for the oligarchs. |
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The recent tilt towards Russia partly reflects the recovery of a degree of Russian power under Putin, but also growing disillusion with the West. |
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Yet the burden of geography has not changed, while the Russian state has changed profoundly since the ascension of Putin. |
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Shleifer and Treisman marshal an impressive array of evidence to demonstrate how far Russia's economy has come under Putin. |
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Putin has the opportunity to put an end to a number of Russian oligarchs, or at least to radically diminish their pernicious political role. |
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He also implied the Russian Government of Vladimir Putin should now capitulate to Chechen demands for independence. |
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But many think it was because he meddled in politics and posed a threat to President Putin. |
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Putin still controls the strings and Medvedev can only become the puppetmaster if he cuts them. |
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Others suggest Putin may want to centralize control over the regions by appointing regional governors. |
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Her political nous and plain-speaking made her an instant hit on the political circuit, particularly with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin. |
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Jacques Chirac, Gerhard Shroeder and Vlad Putin were yukking it up at the G8 conference with jokes to one another about British cuisine. |
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Have we done enough to support President Putin in his own war on terror? |
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After 14 years as president and premier, Vladimir Putin ended his 30-year marriage in June and his judo mentor died this month. |
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But their point is to show how strong Putin is rather than engender competition. |
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We are 80 percent Putin supporters today and tomorrow Khodorkovsky or Navalny might come to power and I will be in trouble. |
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By the time Putin joined Berlusconi on his n-th trip to Sardinia, in 2003, they were already on hugging terms. |
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Over the course of the year, Klaus would repeatedly, through word and deed, demonstrate his sympathies with Putin. |
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With several of his key advisers offline, Snowden crafted his question for Putin. |
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The Vancouver performance thus becomes a crystal-clear metaphor for every other promise of the Putin era. |
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Sometimes I think I see Putin, also naked, strolling along the beach towards us in black sunglasses! |
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Their leader, Aleksey Mozgovoy, visited Moscow midweek and met with Russian officials, although not with Putin. |
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Putin preys on the fact that the West thinks money and sport are neutral, or at least civilizing influences. |
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Russians know they could do worse than Putin as president, and the West should keep in mind just how bad a successor might be. |
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In London, where I met him on several occasions over the last decade, he invariably boasted of his latest efforts to depose Putin. |
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How could things in Ukraine have deteriorated to the point where Putin was now engaged in such a reckless act of aggression? |
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If Russian President Vladimir Putin is preparing for a new offensive, he could devastate Ukrainian forces. |
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In a matter of weeks, Putin has sawed the Crimea off Ukraine and glued it into the Russian Federation. |
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As a precedent, Putin cited kosovo, which the West helped carve out of Serbia in 1999 against Russian objections. |
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Is Seagal being compensated by Putin re-gifting Bob Kraft's Super Bowl ring to him? |
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Artillery fire could be heard in Avtozavodsky district, on Chernyshevskogo and Putin avenues in downtown Grozny. |
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Vladimir Putin famously ran agents for the KGB from 1985 to 1990 out of Dresden, which was then in communist East Germany. |
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The West has seen what Putin has done with Russia during his successive terms in office. |
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Putin also blamed Ukrainian nationalists for attacking the orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate in Ukraine. |
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In Moscow, patriarch Kirill addressed an audience that included Russian President Vladimir Putin. |
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But as the U.S. and EU prepare to unveil new sanctions against Russia, Putin has decided the interactions should stop. |
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Putin is cornered, according to Saakashvili, which is why he is lashing out. |
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Putin is also, for obvious reasons, not a great fan of people-power democracy movements that overthrow corrupt, thieving elites. |
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In response, Putin adviser serge Glazyev said Russia would strike back through financial means. |
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However, Vladimir Putin has stepped it up and is giving us the opportunity to coin a new phrase connoting residency in crazy town. |
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On his present trajectory, Putin shows no signs that he will conform to international legal and moral norms. |
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Putin may very well be the last optimist left in the country, which is facing a time of confusion and disappointment. |
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Putin has hinted publicly that he favors Tymoshenko, noting they had a productive relationship when she was prime minister. |
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Putin also hoped to drum up some patriotic pride with a big circus to serve with thick black bread. |
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And Putin might meet a certain special someone, without insignia and wearing a ski mask, with whom to share his hopes and dreams. |
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If the U.S. moves to sanction Putin and his pals next week, Moscow will definitely strike back. |
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Shoygu would not dare to send the Grad system, tanks, APCs, and other weapons to donbass unless Putin approved of it. |
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To be sure, visa restrictions and asset freezes have been announced targeting Putin cronies. |
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Putin and medvedev are to swap jobs, with medvedev becoming prime minister. |
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When the president of the United States and his spymaster sound like Putin, it might be time to rethink things. |
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He was finally boxed in by his own ill-conceived red line until Putin offered him a way out. |
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And Putin, to his great delight, got to revel in imitating a Cold War giant. |
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And yet his Putin cheerleading increasingly crosses the line into denial or outright recycling of Kremlin propaganda. |
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Over the weekend, Putin himself told the president of the european commission that his forces could take Kiev within two weeks. |
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She talked about a recent opposition art project that Putin misinterpreted. |
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Mr Blair met Gen Musharraf midway through a whirlwind round of shuttle diplomacy which had seen him meet Russian president Vladimir Putin in Moscow the previous evening. |
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Since Putin began flexing his muscles in the Crimea last fall, the ruble has lost 10 percent of its value against the dollar. |
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The article praises Vladimir Putin for fighting with oligarchs. |
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The invasion of Crimea, however, shows that the Putin has chosen to forestall change with the help of foreign aggression. |
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That kind of threat is only likely to make people rally around Putin, and now would not be a good time for that to happen. |
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Putin would use such a treaty to persecute innocent Russians who have escaped his grasp by fleeing the country. |
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Putin had to put on a show with lots of lights and dancing, but quash the gay factor. |
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If Putin preferred Tolstoy over Dostoevsky, what a happier, more peaceful place Ukraine would be right now. |
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Marco Rubio has muscled up on a forward-leaning foreign policy that Putin is making more popular. |
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Berezovsky is now in exile in London, an avowed enemy of President Putin. |
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Vladimir Putin snatched Crimea from Ukraine as a strategic, patriotic, and touristic prize. |
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Introduced two years ago by President Vladimir V. Putin, the tax was designed to bring order to the chaos of the chronically underfinanced state budget. |
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With fighter jets, bombers, and nuclear-powered icebreakers, the Vladimir Putin regime is staking its claim in the Arctic. |
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Kim Jong Un is changing role models, steering Pyongyang away from Chinese autocrats toward the ultra-aggressive Vladimir Putin. |
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Russian President Vladimir Putin pounced quickly Sunday, denouncing the economic blockade of the Donbas. |
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In short, it looks as if Russian President Vladimir Putin sold a stake to China because he needed cash quickly. |
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They were close to occupying Mariupol, but they depend on Putin, who demonstrated his political will to stop the war. |
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But President Putin, What if Every Man Who is insecure About His Masculinity Invaded Crimea? |
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Backed by NATO solidarity and economic sanctions with teeth, it just might isolate Putin enough that he backs off. |
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Bloggers and journalists also wondered why Putin offered to give kraft a new ring rather than return the one he took. |
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They came out to support Putin that night together with about 50 more anti-Navalny activists. |
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If Dostoevsky unintentionally laid the philosophical groundwork upon which Putin now stands, then Tolstoy offers the solution. |
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We had to stand with Ukraine to send a strong message to the malefactor Putin. |
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Last week Putin, who has reduced his parliamentary contacts to the leaders of the pro-Kremlin United Russia majority, ordered his ministers to talk more to opposition. |
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Perhaps Putin will continue where the hapless but well-intentioned medvedev left off. |
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Putin also said he would make medvedev prime minister depending on how his party, United Russia, did in the elections. |
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Putin said there had been no ultimatum for Ukrainian forces to surrender, as was widely reported Monday. |
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But it is not the reality of history, it is the mythology that is being promoted under Russian President Vladimir Putin. |
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Putin stopped short of apologizing for what happened or calling it a war crime. |
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The president should engage directly with President Vladimir Putin to get the Russians onboard. |
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The song debuted in 2002, a year in which Putin was wildly popular and peaked at 82 percent job approval. |
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Intentionally or not, the Putin regime has followed the Berlin 1936 playbook quite closely for Sochi. |
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This is prima facia evidence of the delusional attitude that the administration had toward Vladimir Putin. |
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Putin said on Saturday that a planned joint exercise of the Russian and Italian navies next year will drill sailors in carrying out rescue operations. |
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Sergei is an ex-military man who resembles Vladimir Putin, and he used to see Russia as a brother nation. |
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He has links with prominent politicians and he has been a staunch supporter of the new man Putin since well before his ascension to the Prime Minister's position. |
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During the roundtable, the present luminaries were most interested in whether Putin could have ordered the hit. |
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But at the moment, under Putin, Russia is launched on a different, worse trajectory, and western leaders have been united in their pusillanimity towards it. |
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Unfortunately, despite the extravagance of the parades, Putin was not there to witness the festivities. |
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Yet while sanctions like these can be painful, they can also make Putin more adamantly resistant to withdrawal from Ukraine. |
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Putin has taken off the flimsy mask of democracy to reveal himself in full as the would-be KGB dictator he has always been. |
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But they may not have time with Putin challenging, Crimea invaded and an economy in tatters. |
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Vladimir Putin draws on his background as a master spy, testing and teasing the new regime in Kiev and its backers in Washington. |
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Last September, Putin paid a visit to Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan, three months before the Vilnius Summit. |
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Soon after Putin invited Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan in the Kremlin for a long one-on-one meeting. |
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Putin said in late April that he was baffled that the Americans were targeting the Russian oligarchs. |
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And even as he plots defenses against American and allied air raids, he is taunting Vladimir Putin and his allies in Grozny. |
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Alexander Litvinenko had angered the Kremlin with repeated claims that Putin was running a thuggish and brutal regime. |
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Putin mentioned the word before, during the Crimea crises last spring before he annexed the strategic peninsula. |
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Putin says the events in Kiev signal the return of fascism to Europe, even as he foments anti-Semitic sentiment at home. |
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Then she and Red got into an argument about Putin, the Russian character and when Tsarism and feudalism truly ended in Russia. |
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The fact is that Putin has never publically acknowledged his rumored relationship with the lithe, bendable Kabaeva. |
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So, what were Putin and berlusconi doing in the wee hours of Friday morning? |
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The brazen land grab of Crimea was planned while Putin was enjoying the limelight of the Sochi Winter Olympics. |
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Indeed, Putin checked out of Brisbane early, claiming he needed to get some sleep. |
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But neither Magnitsky nor Browder himself imagined the extent of the corruption in the Putin regime. |
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So could Putin turn inside, Stalin-like, and find imaginary Trotskyist cells among his own cadres to purge? |
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But drinking for every triple Lutz, American flag or smirk from Putin could cause a calorie avalanche and sick Sochi gut. |
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He's defending the chauvinist and imperialist Russian regime of President Vladimir Putin. |
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Has anybody noticed paranoiac Putin who thinks that Nato is going to invade Russia and march through Red Square. |
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France's decision not to disinvite Putin over the Ukraine crisis irked Harper, who told reporters he planned to ignore the Russian bully-boy. |
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Tarkhan boldly claims that next he will bring the fight to Putin. |
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With Russia's President Vladimir Putin, they discussed, for example, the Vienna peace talks for Syria. |
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Russian President Vladimir Putin was hard to pin down when it comes to question related to a looming new Cold War. |
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Putin was also trying to disunite Europe and to expand his spheres of influence. |
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The West would be wise to think of Putin as the devil it knows. |
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This time it concerns Dobby the house-elf character's alleged resemblance to Russian President Vladimir Putin. |
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, among others, warned that the project would increase the danger of accidental nuclear war. |
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The Zorlu Energy Putin Power Plant is the first wind power plant in Pakistan. |
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In 2014, president Putin announced that once abroad Russian investment inflows legally, it would not be checked by tax or law sector. |
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This is a favorable policy of Putin to appeal Russian investment to come back. |
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He has gone out of his way to legitimize and justify the actions of Putin. |
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He said President Putin had sent a message to President Asif Zardari about his unability to visit Islamabad due to busy schedule. |
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Putin Plain had failed to land at Russia's Arctic city of Norilsk on Monday due to bad weather conditions. |
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Within Russia and abroad, everyone had known that since late 1999, Putin had been calling the shots and Medvedev had been his closest aide. |
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Vladimir Putin, the current president of Russia, is the head of the United Russia party, but is not its member, thus formally is independent. |
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Putin was addressing miners in Novokuznetsk, a Siberian town, when he made the comments. |
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Putin suppressed the Chechen insurgency although sporadic violence still occurs throughout the Northern Caucasus. |
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On March 2, 2008, Dmitry Medvedev was elected President of Russia while Putin became Prime Minister. |
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Why is Putin feeling so merciful all of a sudden to his political enemies? |
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Putin returned to the presidency following the 2012 presidential elections, and Medvedev was appointed Prime Minister. |
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Putin has dived to the bottom of the world's deepest lake in Siberia, aboard a minisubmarine. |
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In cultural and social affairs Vladimir Putin has collaborated closely with the Russian Orthodox Church. |
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Gayne Young, 42, used the website of the hunters-and-fishers magazine 'Outdoor Life' to declare his admiration for Putin. |
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The word 'pattern' is daubed underneath the bottom lattice, while Putin has signed his name over the pelmet. |
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Supporters of the Putin regime were pointed out in a whisper. |
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This week, he will meet with Putin in Yalta for a major summit. |
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So punishing Putin, not the people of Russia, should be our primary aim. |
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So why is Stephen F. Cohen so eager to act as a propagandist for Putin? |
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Russian President Vladimir Putin will scrap his plan to watch sumo and kabuki during his Japan visit Sept. |
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And even as Putin said he supported Yanukovych, he dissed him. |
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The Beslan Mothers Committee finally secured an invitation to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin Sept. |
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But if he simply upholds Putin's policies, he will be criticized as a puppet leader whose strings are pulled by Putin. |
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Work began on the pipeline, two days after President Putin agreed to changing the route away from Lake Baikal. |
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In 1996, Putin in Moscow ended up being in charge of the Kremlin's ties with Russia's 89 regions. |
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Mr Cameron should leave shows of baseless, old-fashioned machismo to Mr Putin. |
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Putin has successfully done so now in both the Ukraine and Armenia. |
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Putin will seek to intimidate, apply pressure and destabilize. |
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Diplomat Kofi Annan meeting with Vladimir Putin in Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. |
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Putin doesn't need to invade anything because the putschist government running Ukraine is imploding due to massive corruption. |
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Why Putin wants Angela Merkel for a nightshirt is beyond me. |
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Possibly Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed Rogozin to be irked. |
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The ghoul that keeps Putin awake at night is a Ukrainian Cossack. |
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Both clad in matching orange life-jackets, state television showed Berlusconi and Putin zooming out to the plane on a speedboat. |
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Putin and his KGB cronies are practically the absolute rulers of Mother Russia. |
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Chaika, a Putin flunky, further made it clear that no suspects would be extradited to England. |
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I had felt too that Putin was far grander than before, much more up himself, a bit peevish. |
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Some of the reforms under Yeltsin were scaled back by Vladimir Putin. |
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The idealising side of Furman's contruction exposes itself to the tu quoque retorts with which Putin and his aides now relish silencing criticism by the West. |
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Though NATO leaders gave assurances that the system was not targeting Russia, both presidents Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev criticized it as a threat. |
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Terrorists are attempting to use the Middle East and North Africa as a springboard to destabilize other countries, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday. |
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In his first term, George W. Bush was willing to give Putin a free hand in what Russia calls the near abroad, the states that spun off from the broken Soviet Union. |
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In 2004, the small Ainu community living in Kamchatka Krai wrote a letter to Vladimir Putin, urging him to reconsider any move to award the Southern Kuril islands to Japan. |
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The ceremony was held in the presence of Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation and Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah, Emir of the State of Kuwait. |
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Russian scientist and federal politician Artur Chilingarov, the leader of the mission, took part in the Mir dives as did Russian leader Vladimir Putin. |
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Aided by a pilot, Putin clambered into a powered hang-glider and took to the skies, teaching the birds to follow his lead using scent and other incentives. |
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The young cranes that Putin helped direct had been born in captivity and raised by a conservation project located on the banks of the Siberian Ob River. |
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Russian President Vladimir Putin gave commands to ink a deal with Armenia on developing a joint provincial air defense framework in the Caucasian collective security province. |
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According to many Chechens, Putin is not engaged in an anti-terrorist campaign but in a colonial war and a campaign of terror and genocide of the Chechen people. |
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Using the Russian naval base at Sevastopol as cover, Putin directed Russian troops and intelligence agents to disarm Ukrainian forces and take control of Crimea. |
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has complimented Narendra Modi, India's prime minister, with the Bharatiya Janata Party's victory in the parliamentary election. |
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By making himself, in effect, the state, Putin, like the gerontocracy that collapsed with Gorbachev's rise, is increasingly viewed as responsible for all state failures. |
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President Bush may think he's as thick as thieves with his pal Vladimir Putin, but hopefully someone at the White House is reading the English edition of Pravda. |
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On 24 September 2015, the Associated Press reported that President Putin called John and invited him to meet in the future about LGBT issues in Russia. |
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In May 2000, President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, decreed that new federal districts be formed, and Khabarovsk became the center of the Far Eastern Federal District. |
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Cameron did not attend the games but denied it was a boycott in protest at Russia's laws, having previously raised the issue of gay rights in the country with Vladimir Putin. |
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Disillusioned that her telephone diplomacy with Putin failed, she's poised to go for more, to push her reputation as a tough Merkelvellian with the gloss of Mutti, a mother. |
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This will act as a reminder to Putin that this escalation of military pressure that he thought he had eminent deniability for is fraught with massive risk. |
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It was spuriously invented by Russian President Vladimir Putin to give him an excuse to occupy Crimea and warn Ukraine not to get too close to the European Union. |
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Fogger plays its part Derek Haydn Jones was pleased with his turn of fortunes after Putin lost his maiden tag at the 14th time of asking in the 7f handicap. |
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin attended a production launch ceremony at a factory in Tolyatti in central Russia, signing the first Lada Largus vehicle assembled there. |
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