Vladimir

Those are the years that can be heard when Vladimir says, as he waits for Godot, "You'd make me laugh, if it wasn't prohibited. "

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.

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

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

The problem was that Russian immigrant Vladimir Zworykin was working on the same problem, and filed a patent on parts of his system in 1923.

Vladimir Buyanov, BP's first secretary in Russia, said the court's decision "had no legal basis" and that BP would vigorously contest it.

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

Not everyone will get funding; Vladimir Dmitriev, chairman of VEB, said the bank had already received applications for more than the $50bn.

Vladimir, a state senator in the province, with a buzz cut and a nose as red as fire, sat back down in his seat.

The goalkeeper, Vladimir Stojkovic, saved to his left and Serbia withstood a late onslaught to leave Group D wide open.

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.

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

and Vladimir Styrne, a man said to have instigated widespread repression when he was in charge of a local branch of the secret police.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Belarus' First Deputy Premier Vladimir Semashko said the debt could be repaid within two weeks.

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

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

Vladimir Vysotsky, an iconic Russian poet, singer and rebel, gave one of his first public concerts in Dubna, a nuclear-research town.

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.

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.

After a savage crackdown, the president, Vladimir Voronin, called for an amnesty to be granted to the protesters.

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

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.

Vladimir, 15, ended up in an orphanage and then was sent to a labor camp, where he soon perished.

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

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

When the two friends met, Eugene shot Vladimir through the heart. Remorseful at last, Eugene left his estate to wander by himself.

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

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

Russian news agencies said Russian Premier League soccer referee Vladimir Pettay and a Swedish citizen were among the victims.

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

Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Soviet Union, once said that "the capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them" .

It was a priority for our club to welcome Vladimir back to his favourite Czech club.

Vladimir Usov, a 37-year-old businessman, had been watching through binoculars from his office.

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

Vladimir Nabokov looking out of his car holding a frankly primitive pencil.

It has allowed Vladimir Zhirinovsky, another nationalist, to run on the slogan "For the Russians" .

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

Among the most notable are the Aarne-Thompson classification system and the morphological analysis of Vladimir Propp.

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" .

Beckett makes the point the other way round: Vladimir: "Well, that passed the time. "

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.

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

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.

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

If the Lakers cooperated by sending free-agent bust Vladimir Radmanovic to the Rockets, it would work out for both clubs.

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.

Subsequently, Komarov said something to the Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin This point was the car.

There was a path nearby with a monument to Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.

Midway through our two-hour session, the conversation turned to his forthcoming meeting with President Vladimir Putin of Russia.

Vladimir Putin in an interview at his fourth consecutive term for World War II, U. S. President Roosevelt expressed his appreciation.

And, of course, there were scraps for Vladimir and a bone for Bayan.

Were Vladimir Putin ever to read this book, he would surely desist.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says, "Everything happening now in the economic and financial sphere began in the United States. "

MOSCOW (Reuters) - For four years, Vladimir Putin tried to keep Russians guessing about whether he would return to the presidency in 2012.

Mother Russia: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin with his mother, Maria Ivanovna, in July 1958.

His appointment looks like an extention of Vladimir Putin's power.

President Bush is in St. Petersburg, Russia, for talks with President Vladimir Putin, ahead of the Group of Eight economic summit.

10 he also berated Carter for inviting Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky, whom he called "a common criminal" , to the White House.

And, of course, Russia itself is run by a former K. G. B. colonel, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

For a man who spent his formative years in the murky world of espionage, Vladimir Putin has proved quite a political showman.

As a coda, Mr Horowitz compares the experiences of Thomas Mann and Vladimir Nabokov in the United States.

As for Russia, without the revenue from its energy resources, Vladimir Putin's brand of crony capitalism would have collapsed long ago.

The European Union should "open its wallet" to help Ukraine pay its gas bills to Russia, Vladimir Putin said on Monday.

Vladimir Putin, then head of external relations for the St. Petersburg mayor, was a member of the group.

Its pluralism was a profound challenge to the authoritarian crony capitalism taking root in Russia under Vladimir Putin.

The new year brought the loss of one of my old partners, as Boris Yeltsin resigned and was succeeded by Vladimir Putin.

Vladimir Putin inside Mir mini-submarine during his dive to the bottom of Lake Baikal.

It would start to reverse the increase in the state's share of the economy that occurred under Vladimir Putin's presidency.

Skolkovo in Moscow is Russia's leading business school and has the backing of Vladimir Putin and a handful of the country's oligarchs.

A step-by-step guide to building a body like President Vladimir Putin's was available to readers of a Russian newspaper on Wednesday.

After half an hour Bush complains, "Vladimir, I'm getting bitten like crazy by mosquitoes, but I haven't seen a single one bothering you. "

Under the rule of the authoritarian populist, Vladimir Meciar, Slovakia had become a playground for crooks and spooks.

Facebook looks a little like the Russia of Vladimir Putin.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin signed energy agreements in Ankara Thursday.

It also coincided, perhaps fortuitously for Mr Lukashenka, with an uncomfortable few weeks for Russia's Vladimir Putin.

A large chunk of it may come from Vladimir Putin's deeply unreliable and corrupt Russia.

Medvedev is expected to win next Sunday's presidential election in Russia, and follow Vladimir Putin as the leader of the country.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will launch his own website next year, Russian media reported.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says the global economic crisis tests the stability of all countries, including his own.

He stayed there until Vladimir Putin replaced him, and sent him more or less into exile to be the ambassador to Ukraine.

This weekend, barring a miracle, Dmitry Medvedev, Vladimir Putin's handpicked successor, will win the Russian presidency by a landslide.

Now Vladimir Putin says foreign partners might be welcome after all.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's decision to reclaim the presidency of Russia comes in a bad year for autocrats.

Our efforts by the Russian leadership were widely recognized, including President Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

President Bush wraps up his trip in the Black Sea resort of Sochi for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin. They will discuss the U.

Vladimir Nabokov's response to this routine inquiry was at once moving and mysterious.

Khodorkovsky was aggravating, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin may be included in the EU sanctions "blacklist" .

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that the referendum would lead to increased tension across the Taiwan Strait.

Prepare, conclude many Western commentators, for a new cold war against Vladimir Putin's resurgent Russia.

Russia is a "virtual mafia state" run by the security forces, where President Dmitry Medvedev plays "Robin" to Vladimir Putin's "Batman" .

NATO leaders will get a chance to discuss the issue with outgoing Russian President Vladimir Putin, who will be at the Bucharest summit.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's ban on grain exports took effect Sunday, and it is expected to continue through the end of the year.

In Vladimir Nabokov's memoir, "Speak, Memory" , he describes coming upon a cat torturing a chipmunk.

The Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is being hailed in his homeland for saving a television crew from a marauding tiger.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin delivers an annual report to State Duma lawmakers. It is unlikely to be downbeat.

Vladimir loathed music and never learned to drive; Dmitri is a one-time opera singer with a love of fast cars.

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

As soon as the first room was livable , Vladimir built a barn for two cows, two sheep, and a scattering of chickens.

Vladimir Putin, Russian prime minister, on Tuesday opened the tap to Nord Stream at a compressor station near Vyborg, north-west Russia.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has banned grain exports until the end of the year.

Russian President Vladimir Putin jokingly compared his learning of German to a circus bear learning to ride a bike.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said his country will not lift the ban until the EU provides details about the source of the infections.

Under Vladimir Putin, the archives stayed sealed, judicial rehabilitation of the victims stalled and the excuses and deceits crept back.

Russia's prime minister, Vladimir Putin, recently treated Hillary Clinton to a show of indifference.

He was wrong to trust Vladimir Putin on the strength of looking into his eyes.

The Russian prime minister, Vladimir V. Putin, who rushed to the scene, embraced his Polish counterpart, Donald Tusk.

Chinese President Jiang Zemin met with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the United Nations headquarters in New York on the September 6.

Last month Vladimir Kelman asked if it were possible to use F# with the new Razor view engine.

An appealing idea, but Silvio Berlusconi and Vladimir Putin are unlikely to give up their seats at the top table.

As Vladimir Lukin, former Russian ambassador to the United States, remarked in 1998, "We're now all reading from the same reading list. "

And the other period when there was substantial progress was the years 2000 to 2003 - President [Vladimir] Putin's first term.

First, President Obama will consult individually with Russian President Dmitri Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

Like a bridegroom in church, Vladimir Putin arrived for the ceremony first.

The two countries' prime ministers, Vladimir Putin and Yulia Tymoshenko, signed a formal agreement in Moscow on gas prices and direct sales.

Russia's Vladimir Putin took the oath of office Monday to become president for a historic third term.

The automaker opened the Russian plant last month in St. Petersburg at a ceremony attended by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

His lack of leadership allowed the reform forces to fragment and be swamped by such simplistic nationalists as Vladimir Zhirinovsky.

Vladimir Putin, the prime minister, said both sides were to blame.

Russian strongman Vladimir Putin keeps demanding a replacement for the dollar as the world's leading reserve currency.

Somewhere in Abkhazia there live and work two talented blacksmiths - a father and a son, Vladimir and Daur Khutaba.

He has also issued an unprecedented invitation to his "friend" Vladimir to meet him at his parents' home in Maine on July 1st.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's latest photos show his slightly more environmentally caring side, the Daily Mail of London reported.

Vladimir Putin, now premier again after eight years as president, has many positives in his economic record.

I recoil from the prospect of breakfast with presidents Vladimir Putin and Nicolas Sarkozy, or feigning patience with cabinet colleagues.

b. In return for the marriage alliance, Vladimir agreed to be baptised.

Fortunately for the Inner Sphere, the move was defeated by quick thinking by Wolf Khan Vladimir Ward and Jade Falcon Khan Marthe Pryde.

AP Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, 27, said that Sweden would be citizens of the Russian travel visa-free policy.

Vladimir was now picking through the platter of fried fish innards.

Bryant hit a sweet 6-foot jumper, Gasol sank a free throw and Vladimir Radmanovic swished a 3-pointer, forcing the Nuggets to call timeout.

Vladimir Zworykin and David Sarnoff, the head of RCA, became the names connected with the new industry.

Meet the New Boss New President Dmitry Medvedev extends a hand to a World War II veteran as Vladimir Putin looks on.

Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has warned that Ukraine is again at risk of defaulting on its payments for Russian gas.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced Thursday that Russia would consider lifting the ban only 'after next year's harvest is gathered. '

Condoleezza Rice met behind closed doors with President Vladimir Putin, and Russia's Foreign and Defense Ministers to discuss North Korea.

Vladimir Putin has had Russian history textbooks rewritten to take a more positive view of Stalinism.

They fear that the president will follow the example of Vladimir Putin and stay on as prime minister when his term expires in 2013.

They camped on the shore. "Vladimir" also gave them a rubber-hulled boat with an outboard motor.

Russian Army Capt. Vladimir Ivanov said it was 'a process. '

Last week President Vladimir Putin of Russia, a close ally of Serbia, condemned the breakaway as "illegal, ill-conceived and immoral" .

The paper had a large portrait of Russia's prime minister, Vladimir Putin, on its front page.

"Friends, thanks to you, Vladimir Vladimirovich! "

The Lakers briefly bring their lead back to double digits with a Vladimir Radmanovic three-pointer and Jordan Farmar putback .

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

My paternal grandfather died as many good Greeks did, attempting to kill his mortal enemy, the old Baron Vladimir Harkonnen.

President Vladimir Putin's recent threat to retarget Russian missiles at some of America's European allies is just the latest flash point.

Outgoing Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to become the leader of the ruling United Russia party.

He spoke shortly after outgoing Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma met in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Alarmist rhetoric from President Vladimir Putin; skinhead violence on Russian streets. Is there a connection?

If you like such style we recommend you to see Surrealistic Paintings by Vladimir Kush .

Vladimir Putin, the prime minister, and Mr Sechin are angry that they were not fully informed about the agreement with TNK-BP.

a figure Russia's prime minister, Vladimir Putin, at a ceremony to launch the deal, described as "scary to utter" .

Each new LNG terminal decreases Vladimir Putin's ability to blackmail his neighbours and much of western Europe.

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin declared that the "terrorists will be destroyed" .

When I served in Vladimir and then in Volgograd, I hanged out at nightclubs until dawn. It was a good time.

President Vladimir Putin hoped the Bush administration would abandon NATO expansion and seek a true alliance with Russia.

but by joining the coalition , many experts agree that vladimir putin is hoping to reap substantial diplomatic dividends.

Central Election Chief Vladimir Churov announced the preliminary results at a Monday morning news conference in the Russian capital.

On the cover of TIME magazine is its person of the year, Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived in India on a trip aimed at strengthening military and trade ties.

Vladimir Putin has been making all the right moves towards becoming the new Tsar of the new Russian Empire.

Mr. Medvedev, who succeeded Vladimir Putin as president in 2008, was candid in his remarks on a range of subjects.

Vladimir Putin's idea of the 21st century appears different from that described by President Bush in calling for Russia to withdraw.

In Russia , President Vladimir Putin's supporters and allies gain a majority parliamentary elections .

In Vladimir Nabokov's [3] memoir, "Speak, Memory" , he describes coming upon a cat torturing a chipmunk.

Russia's new satellite navigation system gets a test, strapped at Koni, the black Lab belonging to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin recently based his opposition to the tax increase on precisely these past lessons.

Meanwhile, Greek newspapers report that Russian President Vladimir Punt will stay on another nearby yacht.

In 1954 Vladimir Demikhov shocked the world by showing a monster created surgically, it was a two-headed dog.

'An opportunity for a frank conversation with Vladimir Putin' that's how Tony Blair describes the G8 Summit.

They may be worried about Vladimir Putin, but they are more worried about cutting their losses.

Before leaving for Washington Mr. Bush met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Bratislava, Slovakia.

As violence erupted in Bishkek on Wednesday, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin denied Moscow had played any part.

Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, wearing headphones, sits in the cockpit of a firefighting plane in Ryazan region August 10, 2010.

Vladimir Putin, Russia's present prime minister and then its president, took this in his stride.

Tolerance for Boris Yeltsin's faults opened the way for the rigged elections and crony capitalism of Vladimir Putin's ex-KGB regime.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has approved a halt to all deliveries of Russian natural gas to Ukraine.

Vladimir: well, a real world long live, a good thing for we leave the absurd.

For Vladimir, it is enough that their family restored a piece of Kargopol's history, and are keeping it alive.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, showing off his judo know-how, in Saint Petersburg.

His other rivals in the race were nationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky and little-known outsider Andrei Bogdanov.

Jiang asked Tarlev to convey his greetings to Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin and invited Voronin to visit China at his convenience.

The latter has been pushed out of next year's presidential race by Vladimir Putin.

Mohammad Moeeni has published [Fa] a cartoon that compares Vladimir Putin to the authoritarian former Soviet Union leader, Joseph Stalin.

Vladimir Putin, Russia's prime minister, once promised to hang Mr Saakashvili "by the balls" .

Vladimir Putin's Russia has invaded a neighbour, annexed territory and put in place a partial military occupation.

The Russian city of St. Petersburg was renamed Leningrad in honor of late revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin.

Russia's prime minister, Vladimir Putin, visited Japan and signed an agreement on nuclear energy co-operation.

In one case study, Gregory recounts the story of Vladimir Moroz, whose father was executed in 1937 and whose mother was sent to the Gulag.

In this photograph, Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Soviet Communist Party, lies in state.

Goodbye Lenin Soldiers carry flags with the portraits of Soviet state founder, Vladimir Lenin.

At noon, Moldavian President Vladimir Voronin held a banquet to entertain Chairman Wu, who has just arrived here.

Consider Russia since the Kremlin elite expanded its influence over the oil sector under Vladimir Putin (who is now prime minister).

That ban, Vladimir Putin, Russia's president, has said, makes the extradition request "foolish" .

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says he respects Ukraine's borders, but Kiev is also needlessly provoking tension in Crimea.

Russia saw the charges as an indirect attack on Vladimir Putin, its prime minister, who had signed the agreement with Ms Tymoshenko.

They cannot have been happy with Vladimir Putin, the Russian prime minister.

Vladimir Kuznetsov, the Russian ex-chairman of the UN's budget oversight committee, is serving 51 months for money laundering.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin stated that "retribution is inevitable. "

When the synchrophasotron was built Vladimir Wechsler, a famous academician, told about it: "Few thoughts - much iron" .

Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich , 1952, Russian government official and political leader, was born in Leningrad .

"Sometimes cocky, sometimes charming, always tough, " says Bush of Vladimir Putin.

In the 2004 election Mr Yanukovich had the backing of Russia's then president, Vladimir Putin, who rushed to congratulate him.

Vladimir Putin's vow to rub out Chechen rebels "in the shithouse" helped to propel him into the presidency.

Prince Vladimir reappears holding the beautiful feather given to him by the Firebird.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, a master ofpsychological diplomacy, has repeatedly attemptedto take advantage of Merkel's fear.

Vladimir Putin, the prime minister, took charge of the investigation.

Alexey says a mysterious businessman named "Vladimir" recruited Bartenev and his seven friends in mid-July.

This weekend investors learned what they already knew: Vladimir Putin will return to the Kremlin next year.

Vladimir Putin, Russia's prime minister, also reacted angrily to the news.

While Vladimir Putin's Russia apparently revels in picking new fights, China is making friends rapidly.

Vladimir Putin talked about that rather openly at the NATO summit in Bucharest, Romania in April.

But that is how all Russian leaders start - and Vladimir Putin was no exception.

Russian electorate consisting of one person has decided that Vladimir Putin will return as president next year.

Vladimir Lerner, head of the psychiatry department at the Be'er Sheva Mental Health Center in Israel and an author of the study.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Thursday painted a bleak picture of the economy.

She is said by local media to have even charmed Russian President Vladimir Putin, who visited Kiev in March.

It could also bring him into conflict with Vladimir Putin, prime minister and former president, they say.

It was running an election campaign for President Vladimir Putin.

August 5th the president, Vladimir Putin, announced a temporary ban on the export of grain crops.

So was Vladimir Yakunin, who had revived a bank started by the Communist Party, and Igor Sechin, then Putin's chief of staff.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has met with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi in Moscow.

Vladimir Putin, Russia's prime minister, formally declared his intention to re-enter the Kremlin.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed into law a ban on Americans adopting Russian orphans.

Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin, winner of the second annual Confucian peace prize.

Briefly, Mr Berezovsky fled to the UK after incurring the wrath of the then new president, Vladimir Putin, in 2000.

President Vladimir Putin, welcoming this guide, compared Stalin's Great Terror of 1937 with the allied bombing of Hiroshima.

Russia, under Vladimir Putin, shares most of the blame for this low point.

e critic, Vladimir Nabokov once observed, reads not with his brain but with his backbone.

And Vladimir Putin paid a visit to a Russian wildlife preserve.

On the same day, Yang also held talks with Uzbek Foreign Minister Vladimir Norov, exchanging in-depth views on furthering bilateral ties.

President Bush has accepted an invitation from Russian President Vladimir Putin to travel to Russia for talks April 6 on missile defense.

Russia's President Vladimir Putin said recently that he supports Iran's pursuit of nuclear energy.

Some of the photos belong to the Soviet journalists : Dmitri Baltermants and Vladimir Lupejko .