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May 10, 2012 Russian investigators are questioning two top protest leaders about their roles in anti-government demonstrations that led to clashes with police. Popular opposition blogger Alexei Navalny and coordinator of the Left-Wing Front movement Sergei Udaltsov were arrested late Tuesday with dozens of other activists participating in a protest near the Kremlin. The Russian [...]

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December 12, 2011 Amid a crescendo of complaints from Russians fed up with the country’s tightly controlled political system, two prominent figures — a billionaire industrialist and the recently ousted finance minister — sought to fill a void in the opposition leadership on Monday. The billionaire, Mikhail D. Prokhorov, who owns shares in a major gold [...]

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December 10, 2011 Tens of thousands of Russians gathered peacefully in central Moscow on Saturday to shout “Putin is a thief” and “Russiawithout Putin,” forcing the Kremlin to confront a level of public discontent that has not been seen here since Vladimir V. Putin first became president 12 years ago. The crowd overflowed the square where it [...]

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Aug. 4, 2011 Rumors surrounding Vladimir Putin’s love life have been lighting up the Russian gossip columns yet again recently, after it was announced the prime minister hired a former beauty contestant and lingerie model as his official photographer. Putin’s spokesperson, Dmitri Peskov, insisted that Yana Lapikova had been hired on merit not because of [...]

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04.08.2010, 12.53 Prime Minister Vladimir Putin arrived in Voronezh on Wednesday to hold a conference on the elimination of the aftermath of wildfires.The Voronezh region became one of the areas that were seriously hit by the disaster. President Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree declaring a state of emergency over fires raging in seven regions. A state [...]

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