Author: Kira Petrova
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Kremlin makes political history by appointing Russia’s first female Senate leaderIn her inauguration speech, Valentina Matviyenko, the new Senate speaker, promised radical reforms and other vital measures to increase the Senate's political clout... |
Shuvalov denies links between new tariff hikes delay with election strategyFirst Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov has called the policy a very important in terms of fighting inflation, noting that it is not an election ploy by the Kremlin... |
Experts see Kudrin’s resignation as a great loss for Russia and the beginning of new eraExperts see the resignation as the beginning of the ‘polarization’ of the elite, emergence of new figures and a tectonic shift in the elite’s consciousness... |
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Long-serving Minister Shoigu intends to remain in government after 2012 electionEmergency Situations Minister Sergei Shoigu, one of the ‘old-timers’ in the Russian government, has expressed his willingness to continue his work after the presidential election in 2012... |
The world famous reclusive Russian mathematician again refuses to accept public honorsPerelman, the Russian mathematical prodigy, has again refused public recognition, this time the honorary title of the ‘Academician’ of the Russian Academy of Sciences... |
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Intrigue over 2012 election over as political heavyweight Putin set to return to the KremlinPutin, who was the Russian president in 2000-08, is triumphantly returning to the Kremlin after a four-year voluntary ‘self-imposed exile’ as prime minister... |
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