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...This is no historical accident. The Russian government has been sending clear signals in recent years that Stalin's achievements must be revered - despite the "mistakes," as officials often put it, that were made during his time in power. During Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's annual call-in TV show earlier this month, which included several staged questions aimed at sending the public a message, Putin warned Russians against making any "overall judgment" against Stalin. To prove his point, he cited the forced collectivization of agriculture, a process that historians say caused millions of deaths from starvation in the 1920s...
...VLADIMIR PUTIN, Russian Prime Minister, when asked if he had any plans to retire soon. Putin said he is considering another bid for the presidency...
...prison. In a telephone interview from prison, Kozlov said that Butyrka is teeming with entrepreneurs locked up on phony charges brought against them in raider attacks. "Before I landed behind bars, I thought only criminals were in jail," Kozlov said. "Now I know it's not only criminals." (Read: "Putin: Yes, I May Run Again. Thanks for Asking...
...told Russian senators on Nov. 5. "Sometimes it's simply impossible to get to the bottom of them. But that doesn't mean that our law enforcement authorities shouldn't be trying." The issue was even raised during a live call-in TV show with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin earlier this month. Responding to a question about how the government planned to tackle reiderstvo, Putin said a proposal to unify various raider tactics under a single criminal statute would help law enforcement officials work "more effectively...
...death, "one needs to find out who got the stolen $230 million," says Browder, whose fund was once the largest foreign investor in Russia and who has been barred entry to the country since Russia deemed him a threat to national security in 2005. (See pictures of Vladimir Putin...