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During his annual Q&A media session on Thursday, Vladimir Putin spoke at length about Russia's connection to the Boston Marathon bombing, complaining that the Western media has a double standard when it comes to discussing terrorism in other countries.
Boris Berezovsky, a 67-year-old former Russian oligarch, was found dead in his home in Berkshire, England on Saturday. No one knows how or why he died and Berezovsky had a lot of powerful enemies, so the conspiracy theories are already flying.
Eric Singer on how the fiscal cliff affects paychecks in Congress, Jonathan Chait on Obama's fiscal caving, Bill Keller channels the NRA's president, John O'Sullivan on mass firings at Russia's Radio Liberty, and Gordon Chang on the Japanese economy.
As Vladimir Putin signed the bill, heartbreaking mid-adoption stories began to emerge, from New York to Ohio to California, of would-be parents to many of the approximately 1,000 Russian children taken in by U.S. families each year.
In a move that may sour relations both at home and with the U.S., Russian President Vladimir Putin said he sees "no reason not to sign" a controversial law that would ban American citizens from adopting Russian children.
Russia has been Syria's Bashar al-Assad's staunchest ally during it's long war against his citizens, but now they're even trying to distance themselves from the embattled leader.
Russian President Vladimir Putin took questions from the media in a marathon press conference today that covered everything from Gerard Depardieu to the end of the world, and even a few things that actually matter.
Vladimir Putin (who is alive and well!) met with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan yesterday and reportedly signaled that Russia may be willing to push for a new plan to peacefully remove Bashar al-Assad from power in Syria.
The Kremlin is denying reports that Prime Minister Vladimir Putin had to cancel a state visit to due to health problems, but until we some shirtless horseback riding pictures, we're going to continue to assume the worst.
Freed Pussy Riot member Yekaterina Samutsevich has accused the band's former legal team of theft and deception, blaming them for the continued imprisonment of other band members. With a new lawyer at the helm, will the other two Pussy Riot prisoners see freedom anytime soon?
Russia's sky-diving, wolf-hunting, horseback riding president has suffered a "sports injury," according to his spokesman, but some Kremlin watchers insist something more serious is afoot.
Just when everyone thought the tribulations of Pussy Riot were coming to an end, the all-female punk collective slings a curveball.
When Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Pussy Riot had spent enough time behind bars, it raised hopes that they could be released at their next court hearing on Monday, Oct. 1. But in a new interview from prison, the band does not sound all that hopeful.
Bad news comrades: Russian strongman Vladimir Putin is not who you think he is. All of those photos of him capturing endangered snow leopards, scuba diving in the Black Sea and hunting Siberian wildlife? Staged. Choreographed. Totally pre-cooked!
Russia's prime minister called for the early release of imprisoned Pussy Riot members today. One commenter took the occasion to imagine how Putin and Medvedev might resolve an argument.
A new, unlikely voice has been added to the 'Free Pussy Riot' refrain: Russia's Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. Any more jail time would be "unproductive," he says.
"Some fans say that group sex is better than one-on-one because, like in any collective work, you can take it easy a bit," said Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Being the president of Russia sounds awesome: Not only do you get to blow off boring state meetings to go for drinks with your biker buddies, but the perks include four yachts and 43 planes, one with a $75,000 toilet.
Standing up for liberty can create some strange bedfellows: Like the State Department and the reportedly orgy-loving, cathedral-desecrating feminist punk band Pussy Riot.
The three members of Russian punk group Pussy Riot have been found guilty of "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred" and each was given a two-year prison sentence.
Vladimir Putin is a well-documented badass, and badasses don't show up on time to work meetings when they could be drinking with their biker buddies instead.
Vladimir Putin got along swimmingly with reporters at his press conference after Tuesday's G20 meetings. They got along so well, in fact, that some reporters cheered him when the interview was over.
It's the biggest diplomatic event of the week and it's going to be awkward.
Raising fines for unauthorized protesting, raiding homes of activists, and calling leaders in for questioning--none of these actions helped Vladimir Putin stop out the thousands of anti-Putin protesters who showed up on a national holiday Tuesday to tell Putin how he stole this year's election.
In May, The Washington Post dismissed the conspiracy theories that President Obama has made a secret deal with Vladimir Putin after a hot mic moment with then-President Dimitry Medvedev as "another example of how facts no longer matter when it comes to politically sexy allegations." But that hasn't fazed Rep. Mike Turner, a Republican on the House Armed Services Committee.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin isn't wasting any time capitalizing on his electoral victory.
Here's something to think about: Vladimir Putin was sworn into office today, and if the Russian President completes his six-year term, he'll be Russia's longest-serving leader since Joseph Stalin.
Between 20,000 and 100,000 people, depending on the report, clashed with police in Moscow on Sunday to protest Vladimir Putin's upcoming presidential inauguration.
Mitt Romney has lots of great selling points -- his business experience, his success as Massachusetts Governor -- but there's one thing President Obama very clearly has on him: foreign policy experience.
While flying in Air Force One over Virginia this morning, President Obama finally made a phone call he'd been putting off all week to Vladimir Putin to congratulate him on his dubious presidential win in Russia, well after many of his Western counterparts had done so.
It's becoming difficult to keep track of the many complaints of election fraud following Vladimir Putin's overwhelming victory on Sunday in Russia's presidential election.
Complaints about fraud and voting irregularities are growing following Vladimir Putin's re-election, but it remains to be seen if protests or demonstrations will have any impact the results or the future of Russia.
Exit polling indicates that Vladimir Putin has prevailed in the Russian presidential election -- and things could get ugly.
With an upcoming election in Russia, the 88th birthday of Robert Mugabe and an Iranian triumph over an Israeli filmmaker, it's been a busy day in propaganda for the world's authoritarian regimes.
Russian and Ukranian intelligence officials claim that two men arrested earlier this month were planning a series of terrorist attacks on Moscow, including one meant to target Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
Though reports of the 130,000-strong pro-Putin rally in a Moscow soccer stadium today make it sound like the once-and-future president has the support of all of Russia, the fact tht many of the attendees were coerced into attending suggests otherwise.
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Today in books: Amazon Publishing strikes a licensing deal with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Vladimir Putin wants Russia to have a canon to call its own, and the beautiful, impractical, and gaudy homes of successful authors.
Within moments of Vladimir Putin launching his campaign website, calls for him to resign and drop his bid for Russian Presidency were so large that officials had to limit public access and continued to live in denial blame hackers.
Tens of thousands of protesters gathered in Moscow, some chanting "Russia without Putin," weeks after parliamentary elections that were marked by allegations of fraud.
After a long day spent staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense.
Need more signs of just how bad things are going for Vladimir Putin? The Russian Prime Minister is now happily (bizarrely?) taking credit for shaping those massive anti-government protests.
Though it probably won't appease the tens of thousands of protesters who took to Moscow's streets to chant "Russia Without Putin,' Russia today is without one of the prime minister's long-time allies, Boris Gryzlov, who announced his resignation today.
From the official numbers and down to the individual protesters, reports are surfacing that yesterday's 25,000-person strong Pro-Putin rally in Moscow was really all a sham.
After Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called for an investigation into the Dec. 4 parliamentary elections believed to be rigged in favor of Vladimir Putin's party, Mikhail Prokhorov, a Russian billionaire almost as audacious as Putin himself, has stepped forward to challenge him for the presidency next March.
Roughly 50,000 people came out to protest parliamentary elections in Moscow Saturday, the largest demonstration since the end of the Soviet Union.
While maintaining that he had no hand to manipulating the national elections in Russia himself, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has identified one nefarious agent that muddled with the alleged rigged results, and instigated the subsequent protests -- the United States.
After yesterday's crackdown on protesters in Moscow rallying against the allegedly fraudulent results of Sunday's parliamentary elections, activists are reconvening to organize online the largest demonstration to date.
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