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...considerable compensation for victims of political repression. And the Romanovs' properties were vast. The re-opened probe may facilitate their formal recognition as repression victims - or political rehabilitation, to put in Russian legalese. What if the heirs claim the Hermitage Museum - once the Imperial Winter Palace - or the Kremlin? In fact, Nicholas listed himself in the 1897 Russian census as "The Master of the Russian Land." Would this official and legal record give the heirs grounds to claim the entire country back...
...last afternoon, Gromyko disappeared into the depths of the Kremlin, where the treaty was approved at a special session of the Politburo. In the early evening, Gromyko drove to the guest villa on Lenin Hill, where Scheel was staying, and the two made arrangements for the initialing of the agreement the next day, and for the exchange of two accompanying letters...
...conclude that Chechnyan rebels were responsible for this bomb. The last train bombing in Russia occurred in June 2005, on a Grozny-to-Moscow train, but the perpetrators were an ethnic Russian Nazi group. Putin prepares to stand down once his second presidential tenure expires in May 2008. Kremlin insiders don't know who will succeed him, but throughout history, acts of terror have proven useful rationales to seize or hold on to power. The apartment bombings of 1999 helped make Putin president. A seizure of a school by terrorists in the city of Beslan in September...
VLADIMIR PUTIN, President of Russia, denouncing British demands for extradition of the Russian spy accused of murdering Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko in London last year...
...question, it is. "Real disposable income is growing 10% a year, and has done ever since Putin came to power," says Barysch. That has boosted Putin's popularity, which is largely undented by his moves to assert control over the Russian media and to consolidate political power in the Kremlin. Westerners may lament the loss of freedoms in Russia, says Barysch, but "most Russians never knew they had them. What we are nostalgic about, the Yeltsin years, Russians perceived as a period of chaos, instability and great inequality...