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Without a 1969 exchange like the one now being discussed between the White House and the Kremlin, my parents would never have married.

Medvedev showed his willingness to continue to perform this role should Mr. Putin choose to leave him in the Kremlin.

There seems to be a lack of consensus in the Kremlin about how to counter simmering instability in its outlying regions.

For now, Kremlin critics say, the government appears to be trying to disrupt opposition Internet postings, rather than block them.

Over the weekend, hundreds of protesters rallied a few blocks from the Kremlin to call for justice in the Kashin case.

During a meeting at the Kremlin on Monday, President Dmitri Medvedev seemed to realize that this was not just a series of freak accidents.

The rise in poverty levels did not pose a serious political challenge to the Kremlin, she said.

The president took the initiative to be a guide for the children and showed them around the Andrew Hall of the Kremlin.

I owe my life to a spy swap of exactly the kind being negotiated today between the White House and the Kremlin.

What really irks the Kremlin is that Mr Yanukovych is trying to get lower gas prices from Russia even as he knocks at the EU's door.

In other words, the Kremlin was content to stand silently as Qaddafi was killing thousands of his own people.

Russia's pro-Kremlin Duma or lower house of parliament rushed through the necessary legislation in less than a week.

In my role as an adviser to the Kremlin, I tried to explain why it was that the West did not trust Russia.

Kremlin officials say the protesters are dangerous radicals trying to destabilize Russia with help from foreign governments.

In typical Russian fashion, Moscow's chattering classes were left trying to decode oblique signals emanating from the Kremlin.

The Kremlin's leaders do not seem to have offered Mr Bakiyev asylum in Moscow, as they did to his predecessor.

United Russia, the only party that matters, has no ideology other than blind loyalty to the Kremlin.

The kremlin itself is enormously imposing. But Moscow has no official residence to match the White House.

The Kremlin was also fast improving batteries of surface-to-air missiles that could knock LeMay's beloved bombers out of the sky.

But Kremlin leaders appeared to be positioning themselves for a setback.

Indeed, more people were in favour of locking up Mr Khodorkovsky, even though they knew it would benefit only a few Kremlin bureaucrats.

The Kremlin has approved the re-export of the engine to Pakistan, as it has no arms business there.

Dmitry Medvedev, the current occupant of the Kremlin, said he wanted Mr Putin to run for president next year.

Meanwhile, the Kremlin and Gazprom had a very public falling out with several of the business 'oligarchs' who backed Yanukovych.

The Kremlin might have expected a brutal dispersal of the crowd, but Mr Kuchma would not sanction the use of force.

Members of a Kremlin advisory body that monitors the media say officials told journalists not to use the word 'crisis.

Eventually, the Kremlin lost confidence in him just as it had lost confidence in Mr Luzhkov.

Mr Luzhkov's departure was not itself such a shock, after a furious open fight had broken out with the Kremlin some weeks ago.

Officially, the president of Tatarstan is appointed and removed by the Kremlin, like any other regional governor in Russia.

Kremlin spokeswoman confirmed that the President had been informed of a plot but declined to comment further.

Kennedy, at least, did not have the Republicans encouraging the Kremlin to hang tough.

He is not, as is often alleged, a neo-Soviet ruler: there is little trace of communism left in the Kremlin.

The message, as my guide said: "The Bolsheviks could not tolerate an independent Georgia on its border, " and neither can the Kremlin today.

It would not be fair to conclude from any of this that the Kremlin is guilty as charged.

It also foists a stark choice on the Kremlin: to stifle dissent, or to placate protesters to provide some kind of pressure outlet.

It would not be a surprise if some of the Luzhkovs' assets find their way into the hands of Kremlin associates.

The report also says that after several years of military buildup, the Kremlin aims to reduce defense spending as a share of the economy.

"Maybe to target foreigners because this might have to pressure the Kremlin from the outside, " noted Soldatov.

He denied the Kremlin has been behind any Web-based attacks on its critics, which he said only create bad publicity for the government.

In Dagestan, the Kremlin seems to be giving Mr Aliev the benefit of the doubt.

Despite the Kremlin's efforts to drain all the spontaneity and competition from public politics, it just as stubbornly refuses to go away.

They marched until they got to Bolotnaya Square, the site of two other unprecedentedly huge anti-Kremlin rallies this winter.

At a congress of the pro-Kremlin United Russia party, he graciously agreed to head its party list at the general election in December.

Although little known to the outside world, Katayev had a prime seat in the heart of Kremlin decision-making until the Soviet collapse.

This time, they numbered only a few hundred but demanded the resignation of the local Kremlin-appointed governor, Alexander Karlin.

President George H. W. Bush continued to support Gorbachev, not wanting to weaken or undermine America's trusted friend in the Kremlin.

This was one of Mr Putin's most obvious failures and it left a bitter feeling in the Kremlin.

Through the centuries the heart of Moscow has always been the Kremlin, the seat of the government.

It would be tempting but simplistic to have Kremlin masterminds battling with wily western power brokers over east Europe's future.

Kremlin ideologues like to describe Russia as a "sovereign democracy" , whatever that means. Elsewhere it would be called an autocracy.

Far from rebuilding the Soviet Union, the Kremlin seems determined to follow the path which led to its collapse 20 years ago.

Indeed, the Kremlin had no reason to continue with the Soviet-era subsidies to former Soviet republics like the Ukraine or Belarus.

But at last I had secured a free moment and drove from my room, across the city, to one of the gates of the Kremlin.

Deep in the corridors of the Kremlin, it is clear the starting gun has been fired for presidential elections just under a year from now.

Mr. Prokhorov's previous political foray started out with the blessing of the Kremlin.

What some saw as a strategic choice for partnership with America seems, for the Kremlin, to have been instead a tactical alliance.

He has no KGB background and, within the Kremlin, has steered largely clear of the Yukos affair.

The Obama administration put out a bland statement confirming that its "reset" with the Kremlin will go on.

The next Kremlin leader is also calling for people in and out of the Russian government to respect the rule of law.

But the international response to what amounts to a redrawing of Georgia's borders suggests diplomatic troubles ahead for the Kremlin.

The crash in world commodity prices has created acute financial pressures for which the Kremlin had not prepared.

Analysts concluded the Kremlin was revitalising an old project to fake a sense of political process.

In Munich he aired another telling theory, heard about the Kremlin recently: Russia did not lose the cold war but voluntarily ended it.

This embarrassing prospect is so serious that some claim it prompted the Kremlin to discuss whether to pull out of the Council of Europe.

At a time when most of Russia's press has been muzzled by the Kremlin, Politkovskaya was a relatively rare dissenting voice.

The question for Russia under Mr Putin has never been about elections or the occupancy of the Kremlin.

Since last fall, the flow of documents has been completely separated between the Kremlin and the White House.

It was rather the challenge to the Kremlin's "vertical of power" ; in Mr Luzhkov's case a hint that regional elections ought to be revived.

Big terrorist attacks have in the past been used by the Kremlin to justify tightening its grip on power and curbing the opposition.

As the war in Georgia showed, the Kremlin has other means of persuasion at its disposal.

Moscow's approaches, he said, have been strictly in line with what the Kremlin says is its pro-market policy.

Ramzan Kadyrov, the strongman president of Chechnya, and his kind do not work by the Kremlin's post-modern rules.

The Kremlin always said Russia would only deploy the missiles as a counter-measure if Washington went ahead with its missile shield.

But in 1961, Stalin's remains were moved to a simpler grave near the Kremlin, shown above, as part of a de-Stalinization process.

But he also cracked down on anti-Kremlin protests and refused to allow gay-pride marches, calling homosexuality "satanic. "

A statement from Mr Medvedev Friday said the revelations on the second site "seriously concern" the Kremlin.

If built, Nabucco would be the only east-west gas route not controlled by the Kremlin.

Apartments, many in classically styled buildings, overlook famous Moscow landmarks like the Kremlin and the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour.

The Kremlin has found itself unable to stop rampant violence in Ingushetia, Chechnya and Dagestan to the east.

Their country may not be a proper democracy, but the Kremlin is still nervously responsive to shifts in the national mood.

The Kremlin sees its relationship with the West as a zero-sum game: if it resurges, America will decline.

Analysts say the party is another product of the Kremlin, tested now with a view to being deployed in December's parliamentary elections.

Almost none of the high-profile murders of Russian journalists have been solved, despite Kremlin promises.

In Russia corporate decisions are often driven as much by squabbles between factions in the Kremlin as by strategic considerations.

Kremlin artisans would sew the most valuable of these fabrics into ecclesiastical garments for leaders of the Russian Orthodox Church.

However supportive the Kremlin may seem, there is always a chance that it will suddenly raise taxes on milk.

Engineering clones and fake opposition parties is one of the Kremlin's favourite political technologies.

Just outside of the Kremlin lies Red Square, which in Mediaeval times was an enormous market place.

Despite the bravado, Mr. Prokhorov's latest ambitions seem at least partly in line with the Kremlin's plans.

Norwegian firm is weighing whether to help exploit the Shtokman offshore gas field, a showcase investment project for the Kremlin.

Blotsky said neither Putin nor any other Kremlin official ever sought to censor his work or steer it in a specific direction.

He often visited the Kremlin, right, where he met and proposed to his wife, Sofia Andreyevna Behrs, a court doctor's daughter.

The vote hands the presidency to a man from a different generation and seen as a relative liberal among senior Kremlin officials.

Staying together in the guest quarters of the Kremlin and seeing Moscow in the dead of winter would be a good distraction for all of us.

Tallinn is one of the few places in Europe where critics of the Kremlin are still warmly welcome.

Relations between Moscow and Minsk have been increasingly rocky since the Kremlin hailed Mr Lukashenka's rigged re-election four years ago.

The Kremlin fears Ukraine's president will try to use the court case to break the gas agreement.

There was a phalanx of riot police on this bridge, too, blocking another route to the Kremlin.

Judging by Mr Dudley's previous troubles in Russia, Mr Fridman and the Kremlin have plenty of means at their disposal to put pressure on BP.

The Kremlin will also be worried that the European Union and America have sided with Britain in its dispute with Russia.

Why on earth won't anybody say anything about this poor, unfortunate victim of Kremlin injustice?

Environmental campaigners and anti-Kremlin political activists contended there were other less damaging routes that could have been chosen.

The interpreter accosted one old porter, and asked him if it were far to the Kremlin.

It was the region's deadliest attack in 13 months and a setback for the Kremlin.

A Kremlin spokesman said the program, dated February, hasn't been officially approved.

He did not publish his work on Soviet sociology for fear of offending the Kremlin.

But a Kremlin official said Mr Putin had actively supported the deal when he met Mr Deripaska early this month.

The contrasting obedience of the Russian parliament testifies to a lack of political competition and scrutiny of the Kremlin.

Unable to offer any unifying idea or the rule of law, the Kremlin tries to compensate with injections of money.

In a sign of the Kremlin's nervousness, riot police from Moscow have been sent to deal with the trouble.

That same week, the Kremlin agreed in principle to extend its $4. 5 billion loan for a year.

The sense of defeat and humiliation which the Kremlin attributes to the early 1990s surfaced several years after the Soviet collapse.

As long as he respects Rosneft's interests, anything else Mr Fridman does to get payback from BP will be fine by the Kremlin.

The British and French premiers, once they had abandoned appeasement, appealed to the Kremlin to sign an alliance to contain Nazism.

Since 2007 she has been a member of the Russian parliament, the State Duma, representing the pro-Kremlin United Russia party.

A fierce critic of the Kremlin's human rights abuses in Chechnya, Politkovskaya was murdered two weeks ago in an apparent contract hit.

The main Kremlin plan has been a $200 billion rescue package for banks and companies.

Given a turnout of less than 50%, only a quarter of Russian voters actually plumped for the Kremlin's party.

The Kremlin had no illusions about the long-term prospects for the regime it left behind.

Yet he knew the value of the Ottoman and Safavid treasures, and he preserved them in the Kremlin treasury.

The Kremlin has massively rewritten history, approving textbooks that rehabilitate Stalin as an "effective manager. "

Gazprom and its ilk have many allies in the Western companies and administrations that currently serve as the Kremlin's enablers.

The Kremlin has touted Bulava as a unique weapon able to pierce any air defense.

They also established a direct telephone link between the White House and the Kremlin.

"Putin has not been told the truth for a long time already, " a source in the Kremlin says.

This group then attempted to march toward the Kremlin, shouting far more vitriolic slogans, like "Death to that dog Putin. "

But the Kremlin's reshuffle of top officials continued, with its chief political strategist reassigned.

MOSCOW, Russia (CNN) -- Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin has died at the age of 76, the Kremlin said on Monday.

The news is likely to heighten unease in EU capitals over the Kremlin's tightening grip on energy reserves.

In the Kremlin's mindset, showing due respect for Russia would have meant allowing it to continue to hold sway over its near-abroad.

The Kremlin has used such "political technology" for more than a decade to provide a veneer of democracy for an authoritarian system.

I was especially fascinated to hear Strobe recount Khrushchev's tales of Kremlin intrigue.

The satellite provides a video link between the White House and Kremlin.

The coincidence of the two shows exemplifies the glitzy entertainment and sabre-rattling that are so close in Kremlin ideology.

Russia has strongly opposed a U. S. proposal to deploy a missile defense system in Central Europe. The Kremlin rejects the U.

We looked out at the Kremlin on the other side of the Moscow River. The Red Flag was fluttering down for the last time.

All hell broke loose, with Kremlin officials thundering that he ought to be fired for such insolence.

Lenovo also has increased advertising, using one of the world's biggest billboards, a 400-meter-long spot near the Kremlin.

43. For one of the last times, the Soviet flag flies over the Kremlin at Red Square in Moscow, on Saturday night, December 21, 1991.

Widely considered the Kremlin's hard-liner-in-chief, Mr. Sechin is one of Russia's most powerful officials.

As the Kremlin pushes ahead with a drive to charm the West, its security agencies will be eager to prevent that kind of embarrassment.

Until Monday's attacks, most Russians seemed reassured by the Kremlin's claims to have the separatists on the run.

Mr Dudley wrongly believed that getting into bed with a powerful Kremlin firm would cow his existing oligarch partners.

Flights were unaffected, but the smog shrouded landmarks like the Kremlin.

The Kremlin still plays down the Iranian threat, and says America's real objective is to neutralise Russia's nuclear forces.

In newspaper articles, among political analysts, even in corners of the Kremlin, questions can be heard.

On Tuesday the Kremlin recognized them as independent states, prompting Georgia to withdraw all but two of its diplomats from Moscow.

The Kremlin insists this autocracy is unusual and in no way resembles the systems that have led to crumbling regimes in the Arab world.

The two leaders' tight control of the political system virtually guarantees victory for the Kremlin's chosen candidate.

Telling the nation that the pact had been made long ago was a big mistake, says a former high-ranking Kremlin official.

Led by Arkady Dvorkovich, Kremlin adviser, the Medvedev team thinks that hard choices cannot continue to be put off.

The State Kremlin Palace, located inside the Moscow Kremlin, was a major centre of Russia's political and cultural life for a long time.

His dismissal leaves a vacuum in economic and fiscal policy that will not be filled by Mr Putin's return to the Kremlin.

The Kremlin leader asks why should Medvedev participate in debates and discuss problems that will be clearly formulated in a populist key.

A power struggle is clearly taking place within the Kremlin, as shown by the arrests of senior officials in different camps.

But Mr Medvedev at the Kremlin was much more nuanced and may have prevented Russia vetoing the UN resolution that allowed intervention.

The activist says, by using the same words [as the Kremlin], Americans indicate agreement with that kind of Russia.

The Kremlin may not care much about either of these shortcomings, especially now that oil once again costs $70 a barrel.

But once again, as in Soviet times, Russia's media is now for the most part under Kremlin control.

A more pressing problem for the Kremlin is the growing estrangement between Russia's western and eastern halves.

Military parades are symbolic and the Kremlin has long put Russia's wartime victory at the centre of its post-Soviet identity.

The Kremlin's decision to use brutal force to destroy the experiment had a devastating effect on the Euro-communist movement.

The legal challenge from AAR is said to come with the full knowledge and approval of the Kremlin.

Members of "old Europe" may hope to avoid a clash with the Kremlin, but many countries of "new" Europe say the struggle has already begun.

Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin has agreed to head the ruling United Russia Party, whose members voted unanimously in his favor.

This irks the Kremlin, which claims to fear American encroachment in its own backyard.

In line with such thinking, President Clinton argued last week for continued American assistance for the Kremlin's economic reform.

But last year he told Vedomosti, a respected daily newspaper, that centralizing power in the Kremlin had been a matter of survival.

A Kremlin spokesman called his leader's comments a "hypothetical answer to a hypothetical question" .

In June, Medvedev traveled to Silicon Valley to drum up investment for a high-tech center the Kremlin is building outside of Moscow.

The Kremlin has also spent over $200 billion of its reserves to cushion the devaluation of the rouble and avoid public panic.

In the short term, almost all agree that the Kremlin's intense dislike for Mr. Saakashvili has made his position at home more secure.

The Kremlin 'does not have many economic advisers of his abilities, ' Mr. Nemtsov said.

This bold mission, the Kremlin claims, involving ships, military aircraft and other resources, was a national triumph.

The Kremlin has said that protective tariffs are necessary to allow Russian companies to survive the recession.

The Kremlin could, conceivably, cover the gap from its own reserves.

With parliamentary and presidential elections looming , the Kremlin will welcome the extra scope to raise pensions and public sector wages .

Some Kremlin insiders think Mr Putin could make himself head of the powerful Security Council, whose functions may then be pumped up.

His leaving will also deprive the Kremlin of an important voice in favor of broader reforms to improve the country's investment climate.

Pushed by the profit motive, and by a Kremlin eager to build economic empires, Russian businessmen are heading south.

He is invited to Kremlin receptions, lectures students, publishes books, and appears in the media as an expert on U. S. -Russia relations.

As supply becomes concentrated in Russian hands, the Kremlin will find itself in a position to dictate oil and gas prices.

The Kremlin asserts that Russia has regained its status of "a mighty economic power" .

Hayward's visit to Moscow is the first since the oil spill, and comes amid Kremlin worries over BP's future.

Baev said during the last decade the Kremlin's counter-terror strategy has eliminated large groups of rebels.

Isolated from the outside world, the Byzantine domes of the Kremlin reflect centuries of resistance to progress and reform.

There have been months of speculation that Mr Putin planned to return to the Kremlin when elections are held in March.

The changes included an end to centuries of the Kremlin's governing its provinces through administrative coercion.

A $200 billion programme is helping Kremlin-linked companies stay afloat (and also consolidating the authorities' control of the economy).

The Kremlin refused and a nasty war between Azeris and Armenians followed.

Even before Russia's attack this week on Georgia, she has been measured but forthright in her attitude to the Kremlin.

The Kremlin has launched Russia Today, a multimillion -dollar television venture that broadcasts to North America, Europe, and Asia.

Mr. Gorbachev returned to the Kremlin, but his power and his country slipped away.

Mr Luzhkov is as unlikely a champion of democracy as the Kremlin is a fighter against corruption.

The Kremlin vehemently objects to the shield; it has poisoned US-Russian relations.

Clearly the Kremlin would like to be the one to broker a breakthrough in the Arab-Israeli peace negotiations.

A payroll tax imposed to pay for a 10 per cent rise in pensions this year has embroiled the cabinet and the Kremlin in another row.

The election came after what Kremlin critics called unprecedented pressure on vote monitors who were amassing evidence of ballot fraud.

Mr. Putin declared his candidacy for the presidency at a pro-Kremlin party congress in Moscow on Saturday.

Instead, the Kremlin has tried to define a separate Russian identity largely in opposition to the west.

Tanks rolling into neighbouring countries, the media back under state control and Kremlin policy shrouded in secrecy . . .

"Thank God they were blocked from coming inside, " says Evgeny Minchenko, a Kremlin-connected spin doctor who was staying at the St. George.

But west European countries with good ties to Russia, particularly Germany, worry that his appointment would irritate the Kremlin.

The company's attempts to build a wall dubbed the Kremlin are legendary.

Kremlin-sponsored youth thugs had called him a traitor and pledged to punish him.

But since the Kremlin announced its plan to create the fund, interest has been growing in Russia.

In previous elections, state-run television has easily sidelined Kremlin opposition by savaging its leaders or ignoring them.

"President Dmitry Medvedev expressed his condolences to Solzhenitsyn's family, " a Kremlin spokesman said.

Other countries, Kremlin apologists point out, have redrafted energy deals as the oil price has risen.

There is nothing mysterious about the Kremlin's robust defence of national interest.

They each had two faces - one harmlessly American, the other hardened by a Cold War devotion to the Kremlin.

Meanwhile, the Kremlin has various military tools with which it can pursue its goal of regime change.

Unfortunately, the return of Vladimir Putin to the Kremlin does not qualify as good news.

Whoever sits in the Kremlin, compromises between liberals and nationalists will determine economic policy.

Perhaps it was because the detentions occurred at the journalism department located across the street from the Kremlin.

The security services seem more concerned by leftist groups than rightist ones (some of which profess loyalty to the Kremlin).

Kremlin officials said any violations were limited and had no impact on the overall outcome.

While Russians no longer endure Soviet-type control, the Kremlin still dominates.

The dominant pro-Kremlin United Russia party performed comparatively poorly in regional elections last month.

Now we hear about sovereign democracy [a phrase dreamed up by Kremlin ideologists to describe Russia's current political system].

Kremlin advisers such as Arkady Dvorkovich, formerly completely closeted away from the world, can now be contacted with a simple tweet.

The drop in oil prices is eroding the Kremlin's ability to replenish its gold and foreign-currency reserves just when it needs them most.

Russia's Kremlin-controlled television has run lavish coverage of Medvedev's daily activities as first deputy prime minister.

Safety officials blame the laxness partly on earlier Kremlin efforts to promote business by reducing inspections.

The Kremlin is concerned that alcoholism and under age drinking in particular have taken on epidemic proportions however.

Later that year came the Kremlin's meddling in the presidential election in Ukraine, when Mr Putin publicly backed the fraudulent loser.

Even Kremlin insiders admit that he was determined from the outset to control the television channels and to stamp out political opposition.

Medvedev is the first leader in the Kremlin for nearly a century who does not come with Communist Party baggage.

And it has given Mr Rasmussen more leeway to improve relations with Russia, helped by America's "reset" with the Kremlin.

There are signs, however, that the Kremlin wants to draw a stylistic distinction between the two men.

The proposal would allow the Kremlin to keep a tighter grip on Russia's Far East, the scene of anti-government protests.

Faced with the Kremlin-orchestrated rebellion at last week's party congress, Prokhorov stepped down as party leader.

Officials at the Kremlin and Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service declined to comment Wednesday.

The Yukos case showed that the courts have become part of the Kremlin machinery.

This generation gets its news not from Kremlin-controlled television but from an internet which, unlike China, Russia has never censored.

That may protect their assets from being grabbed by the Kremlin; but it does not shield them from their wives.

Putin is seeking to reclaim his old Kremlin job in the March presidential election, but is wrestling with growing unpopularity.

In other words, Sakhalin is potentially crucial in the Kremlin's drive to recapture its geopolitical clout using energy wealth.

The Kremlin has launched its own "democratic" clone parties to gather up these votes.

Apologists for the Kremlin blame the civilian deaths on liberals who destabilize the country with their criticism of the authorities.

A similar brashness defined her forays into public society as the first lady of the Kremlin.

The Russian media, not yet controlled by the Kremlin, went into nationalistic overdrive.

Mr Kadyrov has been expanding his personal power, acting more as a Kremlin ally than as a subject and state employee.

The tunnel where the capsule with the demand card goes. They say it's a secret tunnel to the Kremlin.

The Kremlin's misunderstanding of Ukrainian politics is based on the fact that, unlike Russia, Ukraine is a democracy.

All the main channels are in effect controlled by the Kremlin.

As for opportunities, the current trend of power concentration in the Kremlin could be reversed.

Obama's decision will stimulate thinking in the multipolar world within the Kremlin.

Defense lawyers and many observers say the cases are politically motivated, an allegation the Kremlin denies.

It is still legally valid but presently ignored by the Kremlin.