President Vladimir Putin, who is constitutionally barred from seeking a third term next year, left the door open for a return to the Kremlin in 2012, a Russian daily Kommersant reported Saturday.
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June 11, 2007MTV Networks has sold its majority stake in a Russian joint venture for $360 million, reducing its participation in a market where it was a pioneer in bringing western youth culture to the eastern bloc.
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June 4, 2007Russian state-owned news channel Russia Today on Thursday began broadcasting in Arabic in 32 Muslim countries, Russian news agencies reported.
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May 31, 200763% of Russians questioned in a survey did not see television broadcasts of the latest Eurovision song contest in Helsinki this month.
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May 26, 2007Six U.S. troops and a Russian photographer were killed by a roadside bomb blast in Iraq, the editor of the Russian edition of Newsweek magazine said Monday.
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May 7, 2007Yelena Tregubova, a former Kremlin pool reporter and author of several books about Russian political elite, has applied for political asylum in Great Britain, the Ekho Moskvy radio reported on Tuesday quoting Tregubova’s own statement.
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April 25, 2007A Moscow court ruled on Wednesday that Forbes magazine had defamed Russia’s richest woman and ordered it to pay her about 110,000 rubles ($4,224) in compensation, the Interfax news agency reports.
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March 21, 2007A Moscow court has suspended Paul Klebnikov murder trial as one of three defendants went missing, the Associated Press reported on March 14.
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March 14, 2007Magazine publisher Meredith Corp. will begin distributing a Russian-language edition of More magazine.
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March 6, 2007Ivan Safronov, a correspondent for Russian business daily who died recently in what is seen as a suicide, had been investigating a prepared deal to supply Russian weapons to Syria and Iran and received threats from Russian state security service, the Kommersant daily reported on Monday.
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