A number of hardline Communist and nationalist members of Russian parliament on Wednesday refused to pay tributes to Boris Yeltsin, the AFP news agency reported.
Popularity: 2% [?]
April 25, 2007Vladimir Putin on Friday again said he did not intend to remain in office after his second presidential term expires in 2008, The Associated Press reports. The statement was made after upper house speaker Boris Gryzlov has called for constitutional changes that would allow Putin to stay.
Popularity: 2% [?]
April 1, 2007
Vladimir Putin will keep his political influence after he steps down as president in 2008 by taking a key position in parliament or the government, a senior Russian official predicted in comments published Saturday, The Associated Press reports.
Popularity: 2% [?]
December 25, 2006India’s energy major Reliance Industries Ltd. is in talks to enter the Russian downstream oil sector by investing in the refinery and petrochemical industries.
Popularity: 2% [?]
December 18, 2006Russian lawmakers on Friday gave final approval to the 2007 budget, which assumes world oil prices will remain high in an election year and foresees a 25 percent spending increase.
Popularity: 2% [?]
December 8, 2006The United States and the United Kingdom treated the entrance of Soviet troops into the Baltic states in the 1940s with understanding and viewed this step as an unpleasant but necessary measure to oppose Nazi Germany’s aggression.
Popularity: 3% [?]
November 23, 2006Russia’s parliament has warned that carrying out the death sentence imposed on former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein could provoke a new wave of violence in Iraq.
Popularity: 4% [?]
November 16, 2006Russia’s flamboyant ultranationalist lawmaker, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, proposed Friday that Russia should sever diplomatic ties with Estonia, its former Soviet ally in the Baltic Region, RIA Novosti agency reports.
Popularity: 2% [?]
November 10, 2006Russia and China are planning to sign 17 bilateral agreements in various spheres during the Russian prime minister’s visit to China on November 9-10, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov is quoted by RIA Novosti news agency.
Popularity: 2% [?]
November 7, 2006Russia believes that North Korea should be a nuclear-free zone, Russian Vice-premier Alexander Zhukov declared at a press conference in Beijing on Monday, ITAR-TASS news agency reports.
Popularity: 1% [?]
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