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Russians voted on Sunday in parliamentary polls seen as a test of Vladimir Putin’s personal authority ahead of a planned return to the presidency,...

The party of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is expected to win legislative polls Sunday, but with a reduced majority, as signs grow of an...

Vladimir Putin accepted his ruling United Russia party’s nomination on Sunday as its candidate in the March 4 presidential vote, paving the way for...

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Sunday moves closer to the presidency he relinquished after two terms in 2008 by accepting his party's nomination...

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will be nominated to run in Russia’s March presidential polls Sunday in a ruling party congress that hopes to ride...

Opponents of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Monday hailed an unprecedented show of public protest after the Russian strongman was loudly booed by the...

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin held talks with China's president on Wednesday, after saying negotiations to secure a huge gas deal with the world's...

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin arrived in Beijing Tuesday for talks with Chinese leaders, a day after his gas-rich nation signed deals worth over...

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin arrived in Beijing Tuesday for talks with Chinese leaders, a day after his gas-rich nation signed deals worth over...

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Friday made light of the sex scandals surrounding Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi, saying critics were simply jealous of...

An online campaign has been launched in Russia urging young women to support Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in a presidential vote by taking off...

Billionaire oligarch Mikhail Prokhorov Saturday won the leadership of a Russian pro-reform party, setting the goal of challenging the dominance of Vladimir Putin’s ruling...

President Dmitry Medvedev on Monday added to the uncertainty surrounding Russia’s 2012 presidential polls, saying he wanted a second term but would not stand...

A Russian theatre has banned an irreverent new play about the tandem of President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin that also features...

MOSCOW - Vladimir Putin on Wednesday needled the United States for running an outsized budget deficit and running deep into debt in comments touting his own economic achievement as Russian prime minister.
"Look at their trade balance, look at the budget deficit, at the debt of the United States," Russia's de facto leader said in closing comments to his annual address to parliament. "We have none of that -- and, I hope, we never will," Putin said to a strong round of applause.

MOSCOW - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Wednesday set the country's sports ministry and Russian Football Union (RFU) the task of preparing a strong team for the 2018 World Cup.
"We should prepare a strong national team for the 2018 World Cup," Putin said at a meeting of 2018 World Cup organising board.
"We all understand that this task could not be solved in one or just two years. We still have seven years ahead and we need to carry out an everyday, laborious,

MOSCOW - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Thursday proposed to visiting US Vice President Joe Biden that Russia and the United States abolish visas in a "historic" step to seal a revival in ties.
Biden's visit is aimed at building on the "reset" in relations spearheaded by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev but Putin has until now enjoyed less cordial relations with Washington than his successor as Kremlin chief. "If the US and Russia agree to implement a visa-free regime before