- 11:27 23/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 23 (RIA Novosti)
RIA Novosti offers its viewers a live broadcast of the march and rally in support of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's presidential candidacy.
- 23:57 22/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 22 (RIA Novosti)
RIA Novosti’s International News Service will cover Thursday’s march and a rally by supporters of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and smaller rallies of two other presidential candidates, Communist Gennady Zyuganov and Liberal Democrat Vladimir Zhirinovsky, in Moscow in English, Chinese, German, French, Spanish, Arabic and Persian languages.
- 16:54 22/02/2012
Presidential candidate Vladimir Zhirinovsky, nominated by the Liberal Democratic Party
- 20:29 21/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 21 (RIA Novosti)
Russian presidential candidate Mikhail Prokhorov said on Tuesday he will form his own political party that would be larger than the ruling United Russia party.
- 19:40 21/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 21 (Marc Bennetts, RIA Novosti)
The leaders of recent “For Fair Elections” protests in Russia are foreign-backed revolutionaries seeking to emulate the so-called color uprisings that rocked former Soviet republics in the 2000s, the organizer of an upcoming Anti-Orange rally said on Tuesday.
- 16:41 21/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 21 (RIA Novosti)
The pro-Kremlin youth movements Nashi and Stal (Steel) plan to deploy 20,000 activists to Moscow streets as Russians prepare to vote in the presidential election on March 4, the Nashi press service reported on Tuesday.
- 13:37 21/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 21 (RIA Novosti)
After the Moscow authorities rejected an application for an opposition rally on February 26, the For Fair Elections movement announced it would stage a flash mob on Sunday, a co-organizer of the opposition protests and the head of the Left Front movement, Sergei Udaltsov, said on Tuesday.
- 11:47 20/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 20 (RIA Novosti)
In an apparent effort to prevent a possible orange revolution after the Russian presidential elections, Moscow City Hall authorized on Monday a rally in support of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, scheduled for the day of the presidential polls and after it, on March 5, opposition groups claim the request was filed illegally.
- 03:05 18/02/2012 KIEV, February 18 (RIA Novosti)
Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov believes that Ukraine and Russia will continue to strengthen bilateral relations regardless of who becomes new Russian president after March 4 elections.
- 21:47 16/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 16 (Alexei Korolyov, RIA Novosti)
Two women who say they defied orders to rig December’s parliamentary elections in favor of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party said on Thursday they were being intimidated by the authorities.
- 18:49 16/02/2012 BRUSSELS, February 16 (RIA Novosti)
Russian authorities need to ensure equal opportunities for all candidates during the country’s presidential elections on March 4, the European Parliament said in a resolution on Thursday.
- 15:00 16/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 16 (RIA Novosti)
An anti-opposition newspaper used against a Communist presidential candidate in 1996 was revived this week, this time to target recent anti-government protests.
- 14:16 16/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 16 (RIA Novosti)
Nationalist firebrand Vladimir Zhirinovsky has said billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov and former upper house speaker Sergei Mironov may quit next month’s presidential election.
- 03:34 15/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 15 (RIA Novosti)
Twenty protesters were detained at an unauthorized rally in front of the Central Election Commission (CEC) in downtown Moscow on Tuesday
- 11:55 14/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 14 (RIA Novosti)
Russian former finance minister Alexei Kudrin said on Tuesday he was ready to support some of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s measures to reform the social sphere if the premier named the sources for his ambitious spending plan.
- 14:22 13/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 13 (RIA Novosti)
Russian former finance minister Alexei Kudrin on Monday spoke against the idea put forward by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to charge a one-off fee to the owners of large state enterprises privatized in the early 1990s.
- 14:21 13/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 13 (RIA Novosti, Alexey Eremenko)
With less than a month remaining until the Kremlin vote, the presidential campaign is picking up steam nationwide. RIA Novosti offers a brief look at the five candidates who made it on the ballot, detailing how they got there, who they are and which part of the increasingly politicized Russian populace might tick their name on March 4.
- 07:39 10/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 10 (RIA Novosti)
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin received over 378 million rubles ($12.7 million) as contributions to his election fund, the Central Election Commission said on Friday.
- 20:01 09/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 9 (RIA Novosti)
Ex-Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is welcome to join but not head the grassroots protest group League of Voters, the organization’s founders said.
- 19:23 09/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 9 (RIA Novosti)
Presidential candidate from the Communist party, Gennady Zyuganov, said on Thursday that if elected, he would combine the presidential and prime minister posts.
- 14:11 09/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 9 (RIA Novosti)
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin does not intend to meet with representatives from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) who have arrived in Russia to observe the presidential election, Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
- 13:51 09/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 9 (RIA Novosti)
Russian business should support the authorities in the run-up to the presidential election, VTB bank head Andrei Kostin said on Thursday at a business lobby group meeting.
- 13:49 09/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 9 (RIA Novosti)
Supporters of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin are to hold a public rally for up to 200,000 in the streets of Moscow on February 23, in what would be the biggest political demonstration in the last two decades.
- 20:08 08/02/2012 SOCHI, February 8 (RIA Novosti)
Russian presidential candidate Mikhail Prokhorov has lauded the acting talents of his opponent in the presidential election Vladimir Zhirinovsky and promised to build a theater for him to perform.
- 17:24 08/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 8 (RIA Novosti)
Russia's Supreme Court turned down an appeal on Wednesday by Yabloko party leader Grigory Yavlinsky against the Central Election Commission's refusal last month to register him as a candidate in the presidential election in March.
- 12:00 08/02/2012
The respondents answered the question: “If the presidential polls were held next Sunday, who would you vote for?”
- 19:29 07/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 7 (RIA Novosti)
Lawmakers from the ruling United Russia party adopted on Tuesday a statement rejecting any change of power in Russia through a revolution.
- 15:32 07/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 7 (RIA Novosti)
Leader of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDPR) and presidential candidate Vladimir Zhirinovsky during a debate with political scientist Natalia Narochnitskaya, who is standing in for Russian Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin during debates, explained why he made a video with a donkey harnessed to a sleigh.
- 14:14 07/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 7 (RIA Novosti)
At least 200 school teachers and postal workers in Moscow have alleged they were forced to attend a rally in support of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s presidential election campaign.
- 12:16 07/02/2012 MAGADAN, February 7 (RIA Novosti)
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who is running for president in the March 4 elections, will have a political scientist stand in for him in a televised debate with ultranationalist leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky on Tuesday.
- 11:35 07/02/2012
Key events connected with the 2012 presidential elections.
- 17:01 06/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 6 (RIA Novosti)
Billionaire presidential candidate Mikhail Prokhorov has the support of 12 percent of voters in Moscow and 11 percent in St. Petersburg, putting him in second place behind the frontrunner, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, according to a survey conducted by state-run pollster VTsIOM.
- 18:05 05/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 5 (RIA Novosti)
A wave of opposition rallies that spread across Russia will go down after the presidential elections on March 4, presidential chief of staff Sergei Ivanov said on Sunday.
- 00:08 04/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 3 (Marc Bennetts, RIA Novosti)
The organizers of a new mass opposition protest in Moscow urged on Friday a nationwide voting campaign to prevent Prime Minister Vladimir Putin from returning to the Kremlin next month.
- 21:59 03/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 3 (RIA Novosti)
RIA Novosti’s International News Service will cover Saturday’s march and a rally demanding fair presidential elections and a rally by supporters of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in Moscow in English, Chinese, German, French, Spanish, Arabic and Persian languages.
- 17:39 03/02/2012 Weekly column by Daniel Kalder
Following recent street protests in Russia, international attention has been focused on the country’s political scene.
- 14:44 03/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 3 (Alexei Korolyov, RIA Novosti)
The municipal authorities in a Moscow city district denied on Friday they were forcing school heads to send employees to a rally on Saturday in support of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s presidential election campaign.
- 12:43 03/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 3 (RIA Novosti)
Head of the Russian Central Election Commission Vladimir Churov called on election observers from the CIS states to give a fair assessment on the media coverage of the upcoming March 4 presidential elections.
- 11:39 03/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 3 (RIA Novosti)
Campaign representatives will appear on behalf of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in televised Russian presidential election debates starting on Monday.
- 23:42 02/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 02 (Marc Bennetts, RIA Novosti)
Political activists ignored a bitter cold in Moscow on Thursday evening to urge passers-by to attend a new anti-government rally on February 4.
- 21:36 02/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 2 (RIA Novosti)
The Russian Foreign Ministry's official spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said on Thursday that the call by the European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton on Russia to review its decision to bar liberal opposition leader Grigory Yavlinsky from taking part in the upcoming presidential elections is an attempt to cast doubt on it.
- 21:25 02/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 2 (RIA Novosti)
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s election campaign office said it will cooperate with the League of Voters, a public movement formed after December's vote protests, to monitor presidential elections in March.
- 21:06 02/02/2012
On Saturday, February 4, Russians will once again hit the streets for different rallies throughout Moscow. The largest event will include protesters in a march through the capital’s center and a rally of an estimated 50,000 people to demand fair presidential elections, the dismissal of the present parliament, and that the head of the Central Election Commission, Vladimir Churov, step down. RIA Novosti invites you to take a closer look at how the march will process.
- 20:17 02/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 2 (RIA Novosti)
Supporters of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in the Ural region are creating a political movement called “In Defense of the Working Man,” reviving old Soviet rhetoric, Rossiiskaya Gazeta said on Thursday.
- 18:26 02/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 2 (RIA Novosti, Alexey Eremenko)
Kremlin hopeful Vladimir Zhirinovsky says that Russia needs to rename its president to “head” or even “tsar” and switch to a parliamentary republic in which Russians are “the dominant ethnicity."
- 17:15 02/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 2 (RIA Novosti)
Russia’s Rossia 1 TV will suspend all political talk shows for the duration of the presidential election campaign, a company representative said on Thursday.
- 17:01 02/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 2 (RIA Novosti)
Russia’s Central Electoral Committee secretary has slammed European Union Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton’s call on the country to review its decision to bar liberal opposition leader Grigory Yavlinsky from taking part in the upcoming presidential elections as "interference in Russia’s home affairs."
- 16:51 02/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 2 (RIA Novosti)
In a move likely to gain broader public support ahead of the March presidential election, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Thursday instructed Russia’s second largest bank VTB to devise a buyback plan for the bank’s IPO stock holders.
- 16:44 02/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 2 (Alexei Korolyov, RIA Novosti)
Russia’s liberal Yabloko party has asked prosecutors to investigate reports that state employees are being coerced into attending a rally in Moscow this weekend in support of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s presidency bid.
- 05:07 02/02/2012 BRUSSELS, February 2 (RIA Novosti)
European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton urged Russia to review its decision to bar liberal opposition leader Grigory Yavlinsky from taking part in the country’s upcoming presidential election.
- 20:55 01/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 1 (RIA Novosti, Alexey Eremenko)
Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin said a second round runoff vote for the Kremlin threatens to destabilize the country but there is “nothing wrong with it.”
- 18:17 01/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 1 (RIA Novosti)
Billionaire 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.
- 17:35 01/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 1 (RIA Novosti)
Russian billionaire and presidential candidate Mikhail Prokhorov promised on Wednesday to provide 150,000 mandates to the League of Voters public movement formed after December's vote protests to monitor presidential elections in March.
- 17:21 01/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 1 (RIA Novosti) –
Russia’s Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin said he is ready to allow election observers affiliated with Grigory Yavlinsky's opposition Yabloko party to monitor the March 4 presidential elections.
- 16:35 01/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 1 (RIA Novosti)
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Wednesday warned against the use of “dishonest” political tricks ahead of the March presidential elections.
- 12:59 01/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 1 (RIA Novosti)
Three of Russia's opposition presidential candidates said that they would not run negative campaigns against the frontrunner in the race, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, the business daily Vedomosti reported on Wednesday.
- 22:31 31/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 31 (Marc Bennetts, RIA Novosti)
A massive police presence in snowy downtown Moscow prevented followers of radical firebrand politician Eduard Limonov from demonstrating on Tuesday evening against the expected return of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to the Kremlin this spring.
- 18:39 31/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 31 (RIA Novosti)
Billionaire presidential candidate Mikhail Prokhorov said on Tuesday he would not launch attacks against Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, the frontrunner in the March 4 presidential election, unless the two men end up facing off in a second round runoff.
- 20:00 30/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 30 (Marc Bennetts, RIA Novosti)
Russia’s largest independent election monitoring group, Golos, said on Monday it was being pressured by the authorities ahead of presidential polls at which Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is to seek a third stint in the Kremlin.
- 19:48 30/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 30 (Alexei Korolyov, RIA Novosti)
Russia’s chief election official has defended his decision to bar liberal opposition leader Grigory Yavlinsky from taking part in the country’s upcoming presidential election, saying the number of violations in his application to run for the post was “shocking.”
- 18:47 30/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 30 (RIA Novosti)
The stand-off between Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and anti-government protesters may escalate into a civil war, billionaire presidential candidate Mikhail Prokhorov was cited as saying.
- 18:39 30/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 30 (RIA Novosti)
Billionaire presidential candidate Mikhail Prokhorov on Monday skipped a meeting of the Government Commission on High Technology and Innovations chaired by one of his opponents in the March 4 election, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
- 16:02 30/01/2012
On January 29, a line of cars with white flags, balloons and ribbons circled the Garden Ring in support of the “For Honest Elections” rally.
- 20:38 27/01/2012 NOVOSIBIRSK, January 27 (RIA Novosti)
Russian Billionaire and presidential candidate Mikhail Prokhorov on Friday suggested moving the Skolkovo hi-tech hub from the Moscow Region to the exclave of Kaliningrad.
- 19:39 27/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 27 (RIA Novosti)
Grigory Yavlinsky, the founder of the liberal Russian opposition party Yabloko, said on Friday he plans to appeal the decision by the Central Election Commission (CEC) to reject his application to take part in the presidential race.
- 15:03 27/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 27 (RIA Novosti)
Russian Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin remains the leader among the five candidates for presidency with 49 percent of respondents ready to vote for him, according to a public survey published by the All-Russian Public Opinion Research Center on Friday.
- 12:11 27/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 27 (RIA Novosti)
The Russian Central Election Committee (CEC) officially rejected on Friday applications from Yabloko party founder Grigory Yavlinsky and Irkutsk Governor Dmitry Mezentsev to be registered as presidential candidates.
- 11:13 27/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 27 (RIA Novosti)
Billionaire presidential candidate Mikhail Prokhorov has set himself the task of becoming the major figure and choice for those Russians who do not want to vote for Prime Minister Vladimir Putin during the elections on March 4.
- 18:14 26/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 26 (RIA Novosti)
Billionaire presidential candidate Mikhail Prokhorov reported some 115 billion rubles ($3.7 billion) in income over the last four years, Russia’s Central Electoral Commission said on Thursday.
- 18:08 26/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 26 (RIA Novosti, Marc Bennetts)
Russia needs “fundamental’ changes in the laws governing its electoral system, a senior official from Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party said on Thursday.
- 17:45 25/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 25 (RIA Novosti, Maria Kuchma)
The Russian Presidential Council on Human Rights has launched a campaign to ensure that the rights of Russian voters are respected with “surgical precision” during the presidential elections on March 4.
- 17:41 25/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 25 (RIA Novosti)
Russia’s election authorities on Wednesday officially registered tycoon Mikhail Prokhorov to run in the presidential elections in March.
- 15:55 25/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 25 (RIA Novosti)
The Central Election Commission refusal to register Yabloko party founder Grigory Yavlinsky as a presidential candidate does not give cause to question the legitimacy of the elections, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s spokesman said on Wednesday.
- 14:22 25/01/2012
How video monitoring from polling stations will be organized during the 2012 Russian presidential elections
- 20:48 24/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 24 (RIA Novosti, Alexey Eremenko)
Yabloko party founder Grigory Yavlinsky will be banned from the presidential race over invalid signatures in his support, the Central Elections Commission said on Tuesday.
- 18:30 24/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 24 (RIA Novosti, Alexey Eremenko)
Golos, Russia's leading independent electoral watchdog, may become homeless one month before the presidential elections, the group’s head said on Tuesday.
- 18:13 24/01/2012 STRASBOURG, January 24 (RIA Novosti)
Russian authorities should streamline the work of international observers at the March 4 presidential elections, Jean-Claude Mignon, the president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), said on Tuesday.
- 14:19 24/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 24 (RIA Novosti)
The Central Election Commission says it is ready to disqualify Yabloko party founder Grigory Yavlinsky from the presidential race because too many of his signatures of support are invalid, agency secretary Nikolai Konkin said on Tuesday.
- 13:09 24/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 24 (RIA Novosti)
Political life in Russia has entered a new era, marked by the transfer of former First Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration Vladislav Surkov out of his old job, former Russian Finance Minister Aleksei Kudrin said on national TV on Monday.
- 18:42 23/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 23 (RIA Novosti)
The “main demand” at the planned opposition rally in Moscow on February 4 must be the registration of Russian liberal leader Grigory Yavlinsky as a presidential candidate, Vladimir Milov, an opposition leader, said on Monday.
- 16:29 23/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 23 (RIA Novosti)
The Russian Central Election Commission will most likely exclude veteran liberal Grigory Yavlinsky and Irkutsk Governor Dmitry Mezentsev from the presidential race once the check of their collected signatures is completed, the Kommersant business daily newspaper said on Monday.
- 15:02 23/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 23 (RIA Novosti)
Russian Liberal leader Grigory Yavlinsky, who is the candidate for non-parliamentary party “Yabloko” in the March presidential elections, says he will fight to take part and become registered.
- 07:26 23/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 23 (RIA Novosti)
The installation of web cameras designed to make elections transparent will start at southeast Moscow’s polling places on Monday, the Russian capital’s South-Eastern Administrative District authorities reported.
- 09:40 21/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 21 (RIA Novosti)
Moscow authorities dismissed on Friday a plan, proposed by critics of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, to hold a 50,000-strong march on February 4, RIA Novosti reported.
- 05:11 21/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 21 (RIA Novosti)
Russian billionaire presidential candidate Mikhail Prokhorov, the owner of the New Jersey Nets basketball team and the ONEXIM Group investment fund, promised on Saturday to sell his business if he wins March elections.
- 22:19 20/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 20 (RIA Novosti)
Russian billionaire presidential candidate Mikhail Prokhorov published his election program on his website http://mdp2012.ru/program on Friday.
- 14:04 20/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 20 (RIA Novosti)
Russia’s Central Electoral Commission has denied registration to three presidential candidates as they failed to submit two million signatures, as well as other documents.
- 06:20 20/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 20 (RIA Novosti)
The approval rating of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin grew by 4 percentage points to 52 percent in the past week, the state-run pollster VTsIOM said on Friday.
- 21:13 19/01/2012 VLADIVOSTOK, January 19 (RIA Novosti)
Billionaire presidential candidate Mikhail Prokhorov will introduce an “economy amnesty” to fight corruption in Russia if he wins the presidential election, he said during a TV debate with Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov.
- 17:56 19/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 19 (RIA Novosti)
Russian voters interested in watching live broadcasts from polling stations at the March 4 presidential elections will have to provide their contact details at a state-run web site, a government official said Thursday.
- 18:10 18/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 18 (RIA Novosti)
Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, veteran liberal Grigory Yavlinsky and Irkutsk Governor Dmitry Mezentsev submitted to the Central Election Commission the required minimum two million signatures required to enter the presidential race, just hours before the deadline for independent candidates on Wednesday.
- 17:01 18/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 18 (RIA Novosti)
International rating agency Fitch has revised down its outlook on Russian cities of Moscow and Saint Petersburg to stable from positive over the increased political uncertainty in Russia ahead of the March presidential vote, the agency said on Wednesday.
- 21:38 17/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 17 (RIA Novosti)
Billionaire presidential candidate Mikhail Prokhorov said that if he wins the election he might name former Russian Finance Minister Aleksei Kudrin or jailed tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky as his prime minister.
- 18:41 17/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 17 (Marc Bennetts for RIA Novosti)
Russia’s Communist Party entered into a pact on Tuesday with the radical Left Front movement in a striking show of unity between two generations of opposition forces in the run-up to March’s presidential polls.
- 17:44 17/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 17 (RIA Novosti)
A Perm-based businessman on Tuesday filed a defamation suit against presidential candidate Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who dismissed the whole population of the Urals region, where Perm is located, as “retarded” in a video.
- 19:17 16/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 16 (RIA Novosti, Alexey Eremenko) –
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is trying to swing undecided voters in his favor by accusing the opposition of lacking a solid political platform, but the strategy may backfire as his own campaign is vague in details and can hardly be sold to disillusioned voters, political analysts said.
- 17:02 16/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 16 (RIA Novosti)
Russian presidential candidate Vladimir Zhirinovsky said on Monday that Prime Minister Vladimir Putin should decide against returning to the post of the country’s president as it is not accepted in the civilized world.
- 12:21 16/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 16 (RIA Novosti)
Liberal leader Grigory Yavlinsky has collected two million signatures needed to enter the presidential election on March 4.
- 11:50 16/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 16 (RIA Novosti)
Russian tycoon and presidential hopeful Mikhail Prokhorov has accused opposition party leaders of colluding with the Kremlin and exploiting growing anti-government sentiments.
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