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Putin’s new team brings no changes?

May 23, 2012 Dan Peleschuk, Russia Profile
Russia’s experts make guesses of whether Vladimir Putin’s new administration will shift all power back to the Kremlin

Russia announces the new Cabinet

May 21, 2012 RIA Novosti
President Vladimir Putin replaced the unpopular education and health ministers, renewed most of the economic bloc, formed two new offices and split one ministry in the new Cabinet

Making Russia a better place to live in six years

May 15, 2012 Maxim Tovkailo, Philip Sterkin, Vedomosti.ru
The fourth president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, plans to make the country a great place to live and do business within six years

Targeting promises

May 12, 2012 Tai Adelaja, Russia Profile
Some federally funded programs meant to improve the quality of life for Russians may be dumped in favor of higher military spending

Creating a federal Russia: The Indian experience

May 10, 2012 Vinay Shukla, specially for RIR
Putin could learn from federal politics in India in his quest to create a viable federation of multi-religious and multi-ethnic societies

Medvedev meets with TV journalists

April 26, 2012 RIR
Russia’s outgoing Presidents Dmitry Medvedev sat with TV journalists to discuss Astrakhan’s hunger strike, the Pussy Riot scandal, the country's censorship, and other political problems

Putin 3.0: what can we expect?

April 12, 2012 Leonid Radzikhovsky, RIR
What will Putin’s new presidential term – officially the third, but actually the fourth – be like? Will we see Putin 2.0 reloaded or will the regime collapse and the world witness a third Russian revolution in 100 years?

Military reform “almost” complete

April 9, 2012 Ivan Safronov, Kommersant-Vlast
Modernizing Russia’s army has been Dmitry Medvedev's primary concern. As he prepares to leave the presidency, he took stock of reforms in the sector

How to fight with corruption?

March 29, 2012 Masha Charnay
Medvedev revives commitment to fighting corruption, discusses new policy roadmap

Russian army to increase information security

March 29, 2012 Ilya Kramnik
The Russian Defense Ministry takes a calculated stand against cyberwarfare

Russia gets a modern army

March 27, 2012 Viktor Litovkin
One accomplishment outgoing President Dmitry Medvedev can be proud of is the reform of Russia’s armed forces

Tandem shuffle has experts divided in their assessments

March 20, 2012 Forbes, RIR, Combined report
Dmitry Medvedev is expected to become prime minister as planned, but as a condition, many Putin loyalists will have to go

Analysis: Corruption battle far from over

February 28, 2012 The Moscow TImes
Vladimir Putin has ordered Russia's state firms to clean up their act, but without fundamental reforms he may only scratch the surface of endemic graft and conflicts of interest that tar the country's bloated national champions

Revealing an attempt on Putin’s life

February 28, 2012 RIR, Combined report
A plot to assassinate Russian presidential candidate and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was uncovered in Ukraine

Russia’s authorities to tighten migration legislature

February 6, 2012 Pavel Koshkin
The country’s Federal Migration Service has fleshed out Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s proposals to restrict immigration.

Vladimir Putin: “A worthy life for the citizens of a great country”

January 16, 2012 Vladimir Stepanov, RIR
Putin unveiled his electoral program for his third presidential bid, promising developments in domestic policies, economics and Russian international relations

Bulava's triumphant salvo

January 11, 2012 Viktor Litovkin, RIR
As 2011 drew to a close, the Russian defense industry scored a spectacular victory

Bureaucrats impede Russia’s economic growth

January 6, 2012 Evgeniya Pismennaya, Vedomosti
Government experts admit that the country has far too many bureaucrats and maintaining them is taking up more resources every year

Medvedev proposes to reform Russia’s political system

December 22, 2011 RIR
In his annual speech, Dmitry Medvedev proposed to reform the system of electing regional governors and return to direct voting among other political issues

Putin’s annual report

December 16, 2011 Vladimir Babkin, RIR
Vladimir Putin’s annual question and answer session was more like a report than the launch of a presidential campaign
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