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A protest in Moscow against the government's reform measures.-IVAN SEKRETAREV/AP

Resisting `reforms'

Large sections of the Russian people take to the streets protesting against the Vladimir Putin-led government's decision to do away with Soviet-era pu

At the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi, President Vladimir Putin (third from right) with (from left) Presidents Robert Kocharyan (Armenia), Islam Karimov (Uzbekistan), Alexander Lukashenko (Belarus), Imomali Rahmonov (Tajikistan), Leonid Kuchma (Ukraine), Vladimir Voronin (Moldova) and Askar Akayev (Kyrgyzstan). A file picture.-REUTERS

A quiet cold war

The pro-West "revolutions" in countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States add to Russia's worries about the increasing influence of NATO and t

Targeting democracy

The political and security-related reforms proposed by President Putin are widely seen as an attempt to concentrate power in the Kremlin's hands and u

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Terror in the air

The blowing up of two Russian aircraft by militants just a few days before the election of a pro-Kremlin President in strife-torn Chechnya once again

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A bloody trail

Russia mourns the death of about 400 people, most of them children, following the terrorist siege of a school in North Ossetia.

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Trouble in the Caucasus

Georgia's attempts to reunite with it the secessionist regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia brings it into conflict with Russia and escalates tension

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Banking crisis, again

The Russian banking sector finds itself in a major crisis for the second time in six years as panicky depositors stage a run on Russian private banks.

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An oil giant under siege

The Russian oil giant Yukos faces the prospect of re-nationalisation, with its assets being seized by the state for non-payment of tax dues. Is Presid

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A spreading ulcer

Ingush and Chechen rebels target Russian security forces, for the first time taking the Chechen war into the neighbouring province of Ingushetia.

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A new beginning

Relations between the European Union and Russia are put back on track at the end of a high-power summit, where the E.U. agrees to back Russia's bid fo

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Crisis in Chechnya

The assassination of the pro-Kremlin Chechen President Akhmad Kadyrov is likely to jeopardise Russian President Vladimir Putin's plans for Chechnya an

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Russia's worries

The latest expansion of the European Union worries Russia as it can affect its economic interests and virtually isolate it from the Baltic region and

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