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Vladimir Putin Likes Flexible Women

This is Russian gymnast Alina Kabaeva, a 2004 gold medalist who is, according to her Wikipedia entry, "known for her extreme natural flexibility."I find it a little disturbing that she can stick her head that far back and her leg that far up, but apparently Russian president Vladimir Putin likes it. A Moscow newspaper...

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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.