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For Newsmill.se:   Putin's inability to deliver on his promises sows the seeds to the civil society thay may cause his downfall. It does...

For Veckans Affärer: In 2010, business paper Euromoney Magazine awarded Russia's Alexei Kudrin finance minister of the year in the wor...

For Newsmill.se:   The political landscape is characterized by an uncertainty without comparison during the Putin era. How the Russian leade...

For Newsmill.se: If not Putin - then who? The bitter truth is that twelve years with Putin have eradicated next to all viable alternatives ...

An increasing number of surveys rate Russian president Vladimir Putin the richest man in Europe. Putin is allegedly to have amassed enormous...

At his annual news conference , Russian president Vladimir Putin revealed that he had never been tempted to run for a third term. From the v...

According to Russian newspaper, Nezavisimaya Gazeta , Russian communist leader Gennadiy Zyuganov considers withdrawing his candidacy for the...

In July 2010, some 2,000 researchers from all over the world will gather in Stockholm for the VIII ICCEES World Congress . For a week, issue...

Was Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko right to call for parliamentary elections? This is a question that in recent days has been the sub...

Chicken race was a perilous game among youngsters in the US during the 1950s, said to originate from East European immigrants. The game mod...

Will Viktor Yushchenko remain president of Ukraine? This is what is currently in the balance in the ongoing political crisis in Kiev. In wha...

With only a few months left in office, Latvian president Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga might ponder upon her future career. Having failed to become U...

Putin will not run for a third presidential term in 2008. This is a message that he has been repeating every other month over the past year...