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This newspaper is no fan of Mr Putin, and has warned Western companies of the perils of dealing with him.

Putin returned to the surface after four and a half hours looking a little groggy, according to witnesses at the lakeside.

Instead, he complemented Putin on his eye for detail and said he would correct the mistake.

In speeches, he sounds as if he wants to steer Russia away from the Putin model.

I wasn't too concerned about that; Putin probably wanted to wait to see how the U. S. election turned out.

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

It's no shock, then, that, having carefully weighed up the options, Putin decided to choose himself to be Russia's next president.

For the next day, in a final surprise, Mr Medvedev invited Mr Putin to be his prime minister.

Mr. Putin seemed to be suggesting that if he ran again, it would be as proper because he would be complying with Russia's Constitution.

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

She was the latest human-rights campaigner of international renown to be gunned down in Putin's Russia.

Moreover, Putin and Zuma as former communist secret policemen seem to have retained a particular fondness for spies.

"Putin loves to pull a rabbit out of the hat - and then it turns out to be a possum, " says one western political analyst.

Mr. Putin 'needs there to be a multiplicity of oligarchs for him to keep power, ' said one person close to Rusal.

In a speech earlier this week, President Putin said the anti-missile plan could turn the European continent into a "powder keg. "

And when Mr Putin visited Germany in October, Ms Merkel did not hesitate to address the murder of a Russian journalist, Anna Politkovskaya.

You don't have to be a Putin apologist to understand that this is not an adequate explanation.

But even if it does not, real power will remain in Mr Putin's hands as he is the focus of almost all his administration's public popularity.

Indeed, less than two weeks later, Mr. Putin honored Mr. Surkov with a medal for service to Russia. And with that, Mr.

Mr Putin seems to regard foreign debt as a sort of national insult, and is paying most of it off.

Caught in his own system, Mr Putin seems to have decided he could not rely on any of the factions.

Likewise, pronouncements by Mr Putin on foreign policy, which is nominally Mr Medvedev's domain, do not seem to faze the president.

Promoters said the party was to merely celebrate Putin and not to ask him to run for president again.

News of Mr Putin's candidacy, which had been widely expected, was greeted with dismay by the country's small liberal opposition.

Moreover, Mr Putin wants some sort of hand in the management and operation of the system.

Observers said the results were less convincing than ap-peared at first sight, in a poll transformed into a referendum on Mr Putin.

Putin himself would not have ousted Zyazikov; he would have felt that the pressure on him was enough to make the point.

Setting out his ideas for a future world economy, Putin called for strong currencies and global regulations founded on international law.

Mr Medvedev may never have been a real alternative to Mr Putin, but he held out the faint possibility of a transition of power.

Mr. Putin said the tests of the new missiles were a response to U. S. Steps that have upset the strategic balance in the world.

Mr Putin, the bad cop, runs Russia and distributes the money, as he made clear in the recent conference of his United Russia party.

Indeed, the main reason for making Mr Medvedev president under Mr Putin's supervision was that it would preserve the status quo.

Mr Putin said the INF treaty was no longer in its interests because of proliferation of short and medium-range missiles.

"Medvedev was a puppet, but now he seems to be doing things that may not please Putin, " says Altai political scientist Yuri Chernyshov.

In this context, it is possible for the reform of the co-governance of Putin and Medvedev and the adjustment of economic policies as well.

While trade was a top issue on the agenda for the Bush-Putin meeting, in Hanoi, it was by no means the only one.

With Mr Putin in power, Russia may suffer deep stagnation, but a collapse of the system would be all the more dramatic.

Russia will get a new president (probably), but the petulantly pugnacious Vladimir Putin has no intention of bidding farewell to power.

Putin is a dictator pulling these strings. Medvedev get's his instructions from Putin and would be toast if he did not follow them.

Mr Putin has said the collapse of the Soviet Union was the great geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century.

It is always tempting to try a soft approach on a new Russian president, just as it was with Mr Putin.

Putin is known as a judo enthusiast while Medvedev has said he enjoys yoga.

She fell out with Yeltsin over the war in Chechnya, and in 2010 was the first to sign a petition that Vladimir Putin should go.

Mr Putin has positioned himself as the symbol of a resurgent nation recovering from years of humiliation and weakness.

Others said the explosions had been set by Mr. Putin's foes, using a terrorist attack to rock the boat.

Mr Putin is well placed to serve two back-to-back presidential terms that would keep him in power until 2024 at which point he would be 71.

Just like the US and EU almost unashamedly prefer Medvedev to Putin, the Chinese equally unashamedly seem to prefer Putin to Medvedev.

Russia's satellite navigation system isn't fully operational yet, but it seems to work on Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's dog.

His second option is to persuade Mr Putin to step down, or to sack him. This would amount to a palace coup.

He said Putin - the former Russian president - still has a great deal of power.

Putin said the "Year of Russian Language" went on well in China and looked forward to the "Year of Chinese language" in Russia next year.

This is not to say that the West has no influence. Mr Putin, like other Russian leaders before him, is sensitive to outside criticism.

In response to calls to open up the political system, Mr. Putin said he would consider loosening restrictive laws on party registration.

For all his talk about foreign threats and domestic enemies, what Mr Putin really fears is his entourage and a war among the clans.

This general tiredness with Mr Putin is beginning to be reflected in his ratings.

Putin said the joint song competition among SCO members could be called "Intervision" to rival the annual Eurovision Song Contest.

Mr. Bush also discussed the matter in person Friday with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, when both attended a reception in Beijing.

The liberal, westward-looking part of the Russian elite wants to see Mr Medvedev as a beacon of the post-Putin thaw.

The bank said the cut was a response to lower inflation, but analysts blamed "jawboning" by Mr Putin.

Mr Putin's hosting of the forum capped a week in which he dominated the international stage.

Mr Putin's style is more confrontational, however, and he tends to see international relations in zero-sum terms.

Mr. Putin, meanwhile, said he considered Mr. Prokhorov, who also owns the New Jersey Nets basketball team, as 'a strong competitor. '

Mr Putin always took great care over symbols, marking the beginning of his rule with the restoration of the Soviet anthem.

I made up my mind about President Putin a few months ago, but it was only at the last minute that he sat down for an interview.

Russian laws on extremism and 'petty hooliganism' have been used to limit political speech and personal attacks against Mr. Putin.

Mr. Surkov, 47, is often ranked as Russia's third-most-powerful political figure, after Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin and Mr. Medvedev.

Defense lawyer Yury Shmidt said the decision was the result of political pressure from Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said he might not object to swapping jobs with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, AFP reported.

Putin began to feel he could not trust anything the Americans said. The distrust was mutual.

Removing direct elections for regional governors in 2004 was one of the key steps in Mr Putin's centralisation of power.

Mr Putin and his team seem to have no "Plan B" .

Putin said the resumption of flights was a response to security threats posed by other military powers.

Litvinenko, a fierce critic of Russian leader Vladimir Putin, left bitter words for him from his deathbed.

The shift in coverage was all the more telling, since the channel is controlled by Mr Putin and his friends.

Putin vs. Chuck Norris. I'm not sure who would win, but I am sure none of us would survive the collateral damage to see it.

In a January TV interview, Mr Putin confided that his worst fault was that "I always trust people" .

During the talks Mr Putin said the North Korean leader had assured him that his country's missile programme was entirely peaceful.

Vladimir Putin has all but shut the door to big western oil firms with his recent clumsy effort to create a state-run oil giant in Russia.

Mr Putin bears a large share of responsibility for all this, but that does not exempt the Russian intelligentsia from its share.

Putin's novel contribution was to synthesize that reading list into a creative contemporary fusion of czarist and Soviet ideas.

The phone call followed two years of patient diplomacy by the soft-spoken Mr Tusk, who has created a rapport with Mr Putin.

It may earn Mr Medvedev either a place in history or a footnote in the story of his predecessor, Vladimir Putin.

Two rallies by an anti-Putin coalition, to protest that the vote would be unfair, were broken up by police with truncheons.

Yet the truth is that there was no particular moment when Mr Putin "started to go wrong" .

Souza said the man with the camera is Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin posing as a tourist during his days as a Soviet spy.

Putin apparently saved the crew while on a trip to a national park to see how researchers monitor the tigers in the wild.

Mr Putin did not specifically address the possible concerns of European customers but said Russia would consider other states'interests.

But his epoch eventually became synonymous with stagnation and economic decline - a bit like the Putin one.

An announcement by Putin during his visit that it would be finished quickly would be seen as a gesture toward the Iranians.

He relates an exchange in which Putin declares himself "hot-blooded" - to which Bush replies "no, Vladimir, you're cold-blooded. "

Putin listened Friday as his deputy, Sergei Ivanov, briefed him on the progress of the Global Navigation Satellite System.

Mr Putin has rarely been seen in public with his wife Ludmila in recent years, citing a heavy workload.

Putin wants Russians and Russia to be the same as he is, one strong personality with multiple facets, not multiple personalities.

"This was the result of treason and traitors always meet a bad end, " Mr Putin said.

Neither Mr Obama nor Mr Putin wants to see Iran emerge as a nuclear power, setting off a destabilising arms race in the Middle East.

Correction: The original version of this article referred to Vladimir Putin as Russia's president.

In the background lurks Boris Berezovsky, an oligarch who fell out with Vladimir Putin, Russia's president, and received asylum in Britain.

In his television appearance, Putin referred to a Bandar-log scene in the book that is quite frightening.

Medvedev was and is Putin's puppet. He warmed the chair and he was told to leave.

In his interview with the FT, he projects a vision for Russia that diverges from Mr Putin's in at least three important respects.

Mr Putin did not indicate when he would lift the ban.

To defend the geopolitical interest of Russia, the Putin government adopted a pragmatic approach and began to push a new CIS policy.

Mr Putin had said that he had no intention of gloating about Afghanistan, before adding: "But the age of American arrogance is over. "

President Vladimir Putin's critics seized the moment with alacrity to portray him as a whimsical megalomaniac.

Still others see Putin steering the ship of state for a few more years and stepping down early.

He did not support the arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, an oligarch who challenged Mr Putin, and even questioned the prosecutor's tactics.

Indeed, Mr Putin, who grew up in St Petersburg, was the summit's only winner.

Vladimir Putin, a man of peace? The mind boggles. He is about as deserving of a peace prize as, say, Barack Obama.

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

There were campaign banners on every corner, so the word "Putin" was always visible from several angles at once.

S. earlier this month must have done something right to win the adoration of Russia's most famous former spy, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

Mr Putin's allies point the finger at Boris Berezovsky, a renegade Russian oligarch who lives in London and sponsored Mr Litvinenko.

The Vedomosti newspaper reported that powerful Putin deputy Igor Sechin, who oversees the oil and gas industry, is set to leave.

At home, Mr Putin has talked often about his belief in reform and his desire to battle corruption and diversify the economy.

The key new demand is to postpone presidential elections for two months to allow a real opposition candidate to run against Vladimir Putin.

The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, said he thanked God that no big fragments from the meteor had fallen in populated areas.

Curious Internet users propelled the issue to the top of a list of questions put to Putin in an interactive Webcast.

But most Russians did not express concern at the outcome, which some hope will prolong the economic boom they have enjoyed under Putin.

Vladimir Putin, Russia's prime minister, has an inner circle dating from his time at St Petersburg city hall and his career in the old KGB.

This is the conviction that, for more than a decade, fuelled the popularity of Vladimir Putin, but is now beginning to pall.

They could prove to be a headache for Mr Putin if he wishes to rule once again as an unchallenged autocrat.

Word of the agreement came as, President Bush sat down for talks in Hanoi, with Russian President Vlamidir Putin, Mr. Bush hailed the deal.

Suddenly I'm picked up in a limo, with crowds of girls and TV cameras and shaking hands with Mr Putin.

Most stripped assets, but some began to create shareholder value after then-President Vladimir Putin promised them secure property rights.

With Putin now putting himself in position to potentially rule Russia until 2024, the world will be hearing a lot more of these opinions.

Mr Putin thanked him and said it would be a "great honour" .

In Russia Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once boss of the Yukos oil company and avowed enemy of Vladimir Putin, went on trial for a second time.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has said he suspects that U. S. agents provoked last month's brief war in Georgia.

Putin's chief spokesman yesterday said he had 'no comment' on the reports.

During the visit, Acting President and Prime Minister Putin met with him and the two Foreign Ministers held talks with each other.

I'm sure the huge amounts of money accruing to the managers, Putin chief among them, of a controlled one-pipeline Russian state did, too.

Igor Shuvalov, the first deputy prime minister and Mr Putin's right-hand man, was in London (where his son studies) when Georgia erupted.

And on top of all that, the most recent picture of a bare-chested Putin on horseback has me worried.

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

On Tuesday Prime Minister Vladimir Putin took to the air in a water bombing jet to help douse fires in one region.

Putin came into power at the historical crisis that Russia was beset with difficulties both at home and abroad.

The lesson Mr Putin drew from the Yeltsin era was that, for now, liberal freedoms in Russia equate to chaos and collapse.

But now that Mr Putin himself is in the prime ministerial seat it may be harder for him to find scapegoats.

Yet it prefers to deal with him than with Mr Putin, and it would prefer Mr Medvedev to remain as president next year.

The Russian public seems to love it when Mr Putin is rude to the American president.

The newly appointed editor of Russian Vogue has courted controversy by putting Vladimir Putin's alleged mistress on her first front cover .

Mainly Mr Putin's belief that energy is a weapon with which to restore the lost greatness of the Soviet Union.

Privately, however, the White House will certainly not be delighted at the prospect of dealing with prickly President Putin again.

Only Countries that remember the heel of the Soviets like Poland and the Baltics have the will to stand up to Putin.

Another panic could destroy Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's reputation as a safe pair of hands.

Putin, for his part, recently fired his long term finance minister Alexei Kudrin because he had been compromised by the fascists.

Finally, if western intelligence agencies possess evidence of any corruption by Mr Putin or his cronies they should publish it.

Today Putin said the economic crisis that has battered Russia would decide which of the two men stood in 2012.

The process that led to the war in Georgia had its own domestic logic inseparable from Mr Putin's authoritarian system.

Having destroyed any semblance of democratic institutions and with no rule of law, Mr Putin's rich barons have to rely on shaky agreements.

Roosevelt "acted effectively, and the number of terms or the years he spent in power did not matter, " Putin said.

"Russia is not an enemy, " he said this week, playing down Mr Putin's nuclear threats.

If Mr Putin does shrink from reform at home, however, he risks sowing the seeds of his own downfall.

The awards ceremony will take place in Moscow later this month, though it is unclear whether Mr. Putin will attend or indeed win.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin welcomed what he called a common-sense deal, but criticized the U. S. for its dependence on borrowing.

In fact, the question of Mr Putin's return is artificial, for he has never really left power in Russia, but simply switched job title.

And that once Putin made the decision, he could do nothing but accept it.

And earlier this year there was a 'Putin party' at a top Moscow nightclub where strippers sang to Mr Putin's rendition of Blueberry Hill.

While Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany accepted full responsibility for the war, Mr Putin was much more careful with his phrasing.

At his press conference in Bucharest Mr Putin was asked how he felt about giving up the presidency next month (to become prime minister).

Mr. Peskov said Mr. Putin had mixed feelings about the measure and had not come to a final decision about it.

Russia and Putin, as the head of Russia, clearly believe themselves to be held in little regard by the US.

Even Mr Cameron must find it hard to be optimistic about that prospect: Mr Putin is not famed for his openness.

To Mr Putin the conclusion from Libya is clear: this was a big political error, not to be repeated over Syria or anywhere else.

Similarly, in reaction to the current economic turmoil, Mr Putin declared the Russian economy to be a "safe haven" for foreign capital.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Friday gave his strongest indication yet that he may run again for the presidency at the next election.

During Putin's presidential tenure, Russia's foreign policy towards Britain can be summarized to be cold in politics and hot in economy.

But at times, Mr Putin seems bent on proving only that Russia is again able to say nyet .

There certainly should be a honeymoon in the early stages because Medvedev has been very close to Putin.

The US Defense secretary, Robert Gates, sat in the front row, feeling the full force of Putin's invective.

Earlier this week Mr Putin emerged as a commando-style protagonist of a computer game on Russia's main social networking site Vkontakte.

Putin kicked off an election campaign on Monday revving up his three-wheeled Harley Davidson at the head of a bikers motorcade.

Wu said he was glad to meet Prime Minister Putin again.

One source of stability may be that Mr Putin is now poised to play a strong role in a Medvedev administration.

But the West should still be blunt in warning Mr Putin of the consequences of any resort to force after the election.

Back in 2010, news about Putin's alleged future son-in-law heated up the local media and Putin's office formally dismissed the rumor.

As an Iranian, I then have a right to say, even with a weak voice, get lost Putin.

After eight years of rapid and increasing prosperity, Putin's Russia is floundering amid the global economic crisis.

Medvedev may prove to be what he was programmed to be, a double of Putin who will continue to pull the strings.

US diplomats cabled back to Washington the widely held view that Medvedev was the "junior partner" , or Putin's "capable assistant" .

On the face of it, Mr Putin gets on with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad; he even invited the Iranian president to Moscow.

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

Before Putin took office, that wasn't the direction the Russian spy services were heading at all -- indeed, it was quite the opposite.

On his recent visit here, President Obama mistakenly referred to Russia's No. 2 as "President Putin. "

Estemirova made no attempt to hide her work. Her office near the newly renamed Putin avenue was well known.

I take away no sense of a Chinese leadership that wants to walk in lockstep with Mr Putin.

Mr Putin's reputation rests on four chief claims advanced by his supporters, both at home and abroad.

In Prague, Czech Republic, President Bush referred to Putin as "Vladimir. "

The Sochi declaration of Presidents Bush and Putin in April outlined a road map for an emerging strategic dialogue between the two sides.

Indeed, many see Mr Putin as continuing to hold true power at least in the initial years.

He or she will be able to serve no more than two consecutive terms, meaning Mr Putin could be in office until 2024.

He was a more palatable interlocutor for the West than Mr Putin had been.

But I think it is going to be hard for Putin to give up all the controls that he had.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday the weekend's parliamentary elections were a demonstration of confidence in his rule.

Yet during his eight-year presidency Mr Putin deliberately stoked anti-western sentiments for his own advantage.

Putin joined the team of scientists studying gas hydrates and natural seepage of crude oil on the bottom of Baikal on Saturday.

In another odd piece of political theater, Putin angrily upbraided the entire cabinet in a televised July government meeting.

A clear sign of problems came Tuesday when Putin decided to switch campaign managers - less than 10 weeks before the presidential election.

Alexei, a property developer in Voronezh, central Russia, says he would happily vote for a third Putin term.

Just imagine the conversation that might take place if Mr. Putin calls the White House to complain about his new nickname.

Perhaps he might even sack Vladimir Putin, the prime minister, who many expect to return to the presidency next year.

Vladimir Putin, Russia's prime minister, vowed to drag the bombers "from the bottom of the sewers" .

A few hours after Mr Putin's comments, Dmitry Medvedev, Russia's president, hastily gathered journalists at his wooded country residence.

BEWARE the BEAR. (Russian) Putin is still in charge. . . out of site but in the background.

Mr Kudrin had also appeared to harbour hopes of becoming prime minister if Mr Putin became president again.

Putin only read the book when it hit shop shelves last week, he said.

Arms control advocates have been critical of the administrations of both Presidents Bush and Putin for allegedly neglecting arms control.

Putin was even an outsider to one of the biggest dramas of Russia's recent history, Mikhail Gorbachev's perestroika.

But it's good publicity for Russia, and for Putin and Medvedev, it may be good news for domestic consumption.

Russia's prime minister, Vladimir Putin, was accused of copying parts of his PhD thesis.

IT HAS long been obvious that Vladimir Putin is determined to stay in control when his second term as president of Russia expires next year.

"Putin has no ideological preference for state capitalism but the government knows that private companies are harder to boss around. "

Next to him, just up the stairs, is a portrait of another KGB protege who went on to bigger things, Vladimir Putin.

By the end of his first term, Mr Putin had abandoned most of his tentative attempts at economic liberalisation.

It was a good analogy; it whizzed round the world, prompting Putin to complain of US "arrogance" .

'I hope that all the positive gains that have been achieved in our relationship will not be damaged by the recent event, ' Mr. Putin added.

Putin in 2012 for many it is a synonymous for lack of perspective in their lifetime, and people will prefer to leave Russia.

Putin said, the move to abandon the old view of all between Russia and the U.

Mr Putin may believe that by going to Iran in the face of a putative threat he looks strong.

One of Mr Medvedev's first acts as president was to nominate Mr Putin for the premier's job.

He said that he has just listened to Putin? s speech at the Summit and found many similarities among their views.

Western leaders comfort themselves that while Mr Putin may be bad, he does not appear to be mad.

He then flew to Russia on a private visit to celebrate the birthday of his good friend, Russia's prime minister, Vladimir V. Putin.

It was only on the day the treaty was signed that the attendance of Vladimir Putin at the opening ceremony of the Games was confirmed.

"You'll see that Putin's team will permit no such thing, " said Gennady Zyuganov, leader of the Communist party.

White House officials will not provide details of the Bush-Putin conversation.

Mr. Putin was behind the wheel of the Russian-made car about half the distance and in a minivan for the rest, his spokesman said.

In a fateful reversal, Putin concluded that the commanding heights belonged to the state, and Russia's large companies were renationalized.

Many in the West hoped vainly that Mr Putin might turn out to be a liberal.

Putin. For a first meeting it went okay, except for one thing. Putin wasn't too happy about the nickname that Bush gave him.

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

After two terms as president and two years as prime minister, Mr Putin has had an unusually energetic summer.

Respect for the law has never been Mr Putin's strongest point.

CFR Senior Fellow Stephen R. Sestanovich tells CFR. org that Putin seems to enjoy the guessing game he's playing with the world.

The Russian Prime Minister Putin has met the intelligence agent deported from the United States in a spy swap earlier this month.

In fact, Indians were the only people sampled who rated Mr Bush more highly than they did Vladimir Putin, Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy.

In Mr Putin's early years optimists hoped that stability and prosperity would not come at the expense of liberty and democracy.

As the orchestra played the city' s anthem, Putin presided a standing show, and fountains and fireworks along the Neva River at night.

"For us, this deal is interesting only if it is accomplished with a parallel transfer of technology, " Putin said June 9.

Mr. Putin offered no specifics, and snapped back, "I totally disagree with you. "

This came after remarks last month in which Putin branded the U. S. government "hooligans" for printing money.

Mr. Putin's everyday activities dominate Russia's daily news programs, so advertising might be seen as overkill.

So in the recent parliamentary and presidential elections they twice voted heavily for a continuation of the "Putin system" .

This was followed in quick succession by a second open vote, also unanimous, that confirmed Mr. Putin in the newly created job.

Vladimir Putin, the Russian prime minister and still the real power of the land, suggested that he wants more concessions.

Vladimir Putin yesterday faced an angry European backlash over his decision to halt oil supplies through the pipelines crossing Belarus.

In the case of Beslan, Vladimir Putin, Russia's president, immediately blamed the atrocity on outside forces bent on weakening his country.

Thursday, in an interview with the Associated Press, Mr. Obama said Mr. Putin still has a lot of influence in Russia. The U.

Putin recently created a "People's Front" to help steer his United Russia party to victory in December's parliamentary elections.

Not since Mr Putin came to power have high inflation and shrinking GDP caused such a fall in real incomes (see article).