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 Medvedev 'heading for clear win'  The outcome is not expected to be a surprise: A hand-picked successor is expected to win in a landslide, after hardly even bothering to campaig
| The state-owned pollster VTsIOM showed Medvedev with 69.6% of the vote. Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov gets nearly 20%
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 Medvedev: I will work with Putin | Dmitry Medvedev vowed to work closely with the man who tapped him for the job, President Putin | |
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| Mar.3 |
Moscow |
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 Vote rig claim after Medvedev landslide | A Russian vote monitoring group has received allegations of multiple voting papers, falsified names on electoral registers, the stuffing of ballot boxes. Western leaders have congratulated Dmitry ... | |
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| Mar.5 |
Russia |
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Gazprom restores Ukraine gas flow Russian energy giant has agreed to restore full gas supplies to Ukraine, ending a 3-day crisis
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| Mar.6 |
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Thailand holds Russian 'top arms dealer' | Viktor Bout, dubbed the 'merchant of death', suspected of being one of the world's biggest illegal arms dealers has been arrested | |
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  Arms suspect faces charges in US The US is seeking the extradition of Viktor Bout, a suspected top international arms smuggler from Thailand, where he has been arrested
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| Mar.8 |
Moscow |
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 Putin: 'No Russian thaw under Medvedev' President has warned that relations between Russia and the West will not be any simpler under his successor Dmitry Medvedev
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| Mar.18 |
Moscow |
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 U.S. tries to calm Russian missiles fears Secretary of State Rice and Defense Secretary Gates said they would give the Russians a report containing specifics of the U.S. proposals
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| Mar.20 |
Russia |
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 Brothers face spy charges| Russian security officials say they have arrested and charged Ilya and Alexander Zaslavsky with links to British interests | |
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| Mar.21 |
Moscow |
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Journalist hanged, stabbed to death Ilyas Shurpayev, a TV journalist was found dead in an apartment with a belt around his neck and numerous stab wounds
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| Mar.26 |
Washington |
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 Bush will visit Putin in Russia President Bush plans to visit Russian President in the Russian coastal town of Sochi next month at Putin's invitation
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| Mar.29 |
Russia |
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Hope for end to cave siege Fresh talks are under way to persuade 28 doomsday cult members to end a 5-month cave siege after 7 sect women came to the surface
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