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Russia Vows to Stop Polar Bear Hunting

MOSCOW -- An program tied to Vladimir Putin says no polar bears will be hunted in Russia this year. A Russian-U.S. commission last year agreed to restrict polar bear hunting to 29 animals per year for each country. But Russia's polar bear program, established under Putin's patronage, said this week that no...

Divisions Strain Coalition on Libya; Putin Likens Force to Crusades

BRUSSELS -- Sharp divisions strained the coalition supporting military airstrikes against Libya, as Germany questioned the wisdom of the operation Monday and diplomats said NATO was stymied by a key member from participating. The airstrikes against Moammar Gadhafi's forces also drew scathing criticism from Russia, a...

Gorbachev Has Harsh Words for Putin and Medvedev

MOSCOW -- Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on Monday described Russia as an imitation of democracy and accused its current rulers of conceit and contempt for voters, in his harshest criticism of the government yet. Gorbachev criticized Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his protege, President Dmitry Medvedev, for...

Putin's Peak: Kyrgyzstan Names Mountain After Russian Leader

Lawmakers in Kyrgyzstan have gone to great heights to honor Vladimir Putin, naming one of their country's high peaks after the Russian prime minister. The Kyrgyzstan Parliament voted nearly unanimously Thursday to name a mountain in the Tian Shan range as the "Peak of Vladimir Putin," Agence France-Presse...

Fitness Advice From Vladimir Putin

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin reveals his fitness secrets in an interview with a supermodel, in which he reminisces about attending bare-knuckle fights, hanging out with "tough guys" at a Harley-Davidson bikers' rally and coming face to face with a tiger in the wild. Supermodel Naomi Campbell interviewed Putin...

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Putin defends curtailing of privatization plans

MOSCOW -Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has defended his decision to withdraw lucrative government stakes in energy companies from a list of assets to be privatized.

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Russia Protest Bill: President Vladimir Putin Supports Controversial Anti-Protest Law

Russian opposition protesters gather near the monument of Kazakh poet Abai Kunanbaev in the opposition camp at the Chistiye Prudy, or Clean Ponds, where they vowed to continue the roving protest in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, May 13, 2012.

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Vladimir Putin, Russia President, Names New Cabinet

Russian President Vladimir Putin named a new Cabinet Monday, warning its members that they will have to fulfill their duties in a difficult global economic climate.

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Russia Protest Camp Uprooted By Moscow Police

Russian police dispersed a protest camp in central Moscow that had become a rallying point for President Vladimir Putin's foes, briefly detaining about 20 activists in a show of force that comes as part of a broadening crackdown on the opposition.

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Russia Opposition Protests: Anti-Putin Demonstrators March In Moscow

Prominent Russian novelists and poets led a street protest by more than 10,000 people in Moscow on Sunday without obtaining the required permit, and police did not intervene.

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05/31/12 Putin Heads To Belarus, EU Partners In First Official... Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Vladimir Putin is heading to Belarus, Germany and France on his first official foreign trip since returning to the Kremlin for his third term as Russian president.
05/31/12 Russian jailed for spitting on Putin portrait Source: New Kerala Dot Com A man in Russia has reportedly been jailed for 15 days for spitting on President Vladimir Putin's portrait.
05/31/12 Putin to Snub London Olympics Source: Newser Even though Russia will be hosting the next Winter Olympics in 2014, Vladimir Putin will snub this summer's games in Great Britain, reports the Guardian.
05/31/12 Yesterday in Brief for May 31, 2012 Source: Interfax Digest of headline news from May 30 to 11:30 a.m. Moscow time on May 31: The U.S. dollar exceeded 33 rubles on the MICEX for the first time since mid-2009 owing to declining world prices for oil and the euro's losses on the world forex market.
05/31/12 AN EDITORIAL: Massacre worsens in Syria as Obama, U.N.... Source: The Morning Journal - Cleveland OH The observers dispatched by the U.N. Security Council to monitor an illusory "cease fire" in Syria have been reduced to adding up the bodies of massacred civilians.

Background on Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (; born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician who has been the President of Russia since 7 May 2012. Putin previously served as President from 2000 to 2008 and as Prime Minister of Russia from 1999 to 2000, and again from 2008 to 2012. Putin also serves as chairman of United Russia and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Union of Russia and Belarus.

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