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  • Prokhorov: No Place for Putin in New Cabinet if I Become President

    2 Feb 2012 | RIA Novosti

    Presidential candidate Mikhail Prokhorov said on Wednesday that if he wins the March election he will not keep Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in his cabinet.

  • Banner facing Kremlin tells Russia's Putin to go

    2 Feb 2012 | Reuters

    Opponents of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin erected a huge banner reading "Putin, go away" on a rooftop facing the Kremlin Wednesday in a bold display of disapproval of his plan to return to the presidency.

  • Putin Concedes He May Not Win in 1st Round

    2 Feb 2012 | The New York Times

    Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Wednesday acknowledged that he may not win the presidency in the first round of voting, though he also said that a second round of voting would lead to political turbulence.

  • Voodoo Putinomics

    2 Feb 2012 | Khodorkovsky and Lebedev Communications Center

    This week in Vedomosti, Vladimir Putin published the third installment of what has become a kind of weekly reading series in the lead-up to next month's presidential election, presenting his economic vision for Russia's future.

  • Thomas Friedman: Memo to Putin and Medvedev “The Politics of Dignity”

    1 Feb 2012 | The New York Times

    In an open letter in The New York Times addressed to Russia's leaders Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev, columnist and Pulitzer Prize winning author Thomas Friedman warns of the effects that Russia's frustrated citizens amid the recent protests.