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Russia is now in a hard, even dangerous, place. A series of shocks are coming, and it is not well placed to weather them. It has, to be sure, little debt: Vladimir Putin's administration is proud that the state has borrowed little and has built up a ...

According to Financial Times, in an article entitled "Putin's 'architect' quits Russia's government", with the resignation of Putin's first deputy prime minister, chief of the government Surkov, the Kremlin has lost the architect of the present ...

On Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin sat for his nearly annual televised live-call-in show -- which, this year, went on for nearly five hours. In addition to tackling some weightier questions about the Russian economy and the country's ...

Kremlin Press Service The call-in show, which has been held since 2001, is one of Putin's favorite ways of communicating with the nation. 16:39: The show is ending on a series of more lighthearted questions. Sittel asked Putin whether he is happy.

MOSCOW, April 23 (Itar-Tass) Clouds are looming over the future of Education and Science Minister Dmitry Livanov. Three parliamentary factions, except for United Russia, have signed a message addressed to President Vladimir Putin demanding his ...

A controversial interview with Konstantin Ernst, general director of state-owned Channel One, has caused a scandal in social networks and the media, raising questions of press freedom and journalist ethics. The interview was taken in 2008 by Yevgeny ...

Berezovsky's Death, and Legacy, Scrutinized Berezovsky's exact role in the 1990s may never be clear. The St. Petersburg Times Mikhail Metzel / ap MOSCOW — British police released a statement late Monday saying that the cause of self-exiled tycoon ...

MOSCOW At the end of his extravagant, intrigue-filled and ultimately solitary life, , the post-Soviet robber baron who was the consummate Kremlin insider before he became a detested outcast, wondered if he would have been better off had he never ...

Berezovsky's Death, and Legacy, Scrutinized Berezovsky's exact role in the 1990s may never be clear. Mikhail Metzel / ap Berezovsky at a session of Russia's Federation Council in June 2000. MOSCOW — British police released a statement late Monday ...