The latest in Vladimir’s tantrums: Condoleezza Rice, US secretary of state, on Wednesday highlighted the tense relations between Moscow and Washington when she hit out at Russia’s “reprehensible” rhetoric and said she would appoint a special energy co-ordinator for central Asia, a region dominated to date by Russian energy interests. Appearing at the Senate’s foreign
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Another foe of the Putin regime comes under Soviet-style oppression: A Russian opposition activist has been sent to a psychiatric hospital by authorities a day before a planned demonstration. Artem Basyrov’s detention is the latest in a series of incidents suggesting a punitive Soviet-era practice is being revived under president Vladimir Putin. Mr Basyrov, 20,
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Ah, the old Soviet style system, redux: President Vladimir Putin’s future political plans looked a little clearer Tuesday when the man he backed to replace him as president indicated that he would in turn offer Putin the post of prime minister. Analysts here and abroad have long been speculating about how Putin, 55, intends to
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MOSCOW — President Vladimir Putin harshly assailed his opponents and accused the West of meddling in Russian politics, telling a parliamentary campaign rally Wednesday that opponents at home and abroad want to weaken the country.Putin’s strongly worded attack on his critics came as he seeks to secure a high turnout and strong support for the
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Russia Tests ‘World’s Most Powerful Non-Nuclear Bomb’ Wednesday, September 12, 2007 MOSCOW — The Russian military has successfully tested what it described as the world’s most powerful non-nuclear air-delivered bomb, Russia’s state television reported Tuesday, the latest show of the nation’s military muscle amid chilly relations with the United States.Channel One television said the new
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Looks like the Russians want to turn back the clock: Two RAF jets have intercepted a Russian bomber over the north Atlantic. Typhoon interceptors shadowed a Russian Tupolev-95 “Bear” reconnaissance aircraft last Friday. It is the first time the £60m Eurofighter has been scrambled on a genuine alert since it took over defence of Britain’s
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