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Presidential campaign begins in Russia; polls say Putin has big lead

World News // 6 years ago

Presidential campaign begins in Russia; polls say Putin has big lead

Russia's 2018 presidential campaign formally began on Monday, with President Vladimir Putin currently holding a sizable lead in polls over 22 other candidates.

Russia's Putin again running for president in 2018

World News // 6 years ago

Russia's Putin again running for president in 2018

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced Wednesday he will seek a fourth term in the spring -- which will be his first campaign in six years.

Special Reports // 1 decade ago

Russia approves plans for NATO base

Moscow confirmed Friday that it gave its consent for NATO to use an air base as a transit hub for operations in Afghanistan.

Special Reports // 1 decade ago

Russian election committee confirms fraud

Roughly 17 percent of the complaints registered with Russian election officials over the March presidential contest were confirmed, authorities said.

Special Reports // 1 decade ago

Russians protest Volga River NATO hub

Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of the Russian city of Ulyanovsk over the weekend to protest plans to establish a NATO transport hub there.

Special Reports // 1 decade ago

Mass march planned against Putin

An opposition leader in Moscow called for a million-man march in Moscow two days before Vladimir Putin is to be sworn into office as president.

Special Reports // 1 decade ago

Putin officially declared election winner

A Russian election commission confirmed that Prime Minister Vladimir Putin won weekend presidential elections by a landslide.

Special Reports // 1 decade ago

Opposition to Putin continues

A Russian opposition group said it wouldn't recognize the weekend presidential election victory for Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

Special Reports // 1 decade ago

Investigate elections, London tells Putin

Irregularities identified by the OSCE during presidential elections in Russia during the weekend shouldn't be overlooked, the British foreign secretary said.

World News // 1 decade ago

Hundreds arrested at Russian rallies

Thousands of people rallied Monday in Moscow following the election of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as president and activists say hundreds were arrested.

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We believe that a special commission of deputies from the State Duma (lower house of parliament), members of the Federation Council (upper house) and the Kremlin administration must be set up to investigate the facts relating to the election's total falsification
Top Russian communist disputes election Mar 22, 2008

This group has come up with 20 ways of humiliating the people
Russian election results challenged Dec 03, 2007

I not only suggest this, I know very well how this can be arranged. There is nothing strange here
Russia's head red pins bird flu on U.S. Mar 15, 2006

It's strange that not a single duck has yet died in America -- they are all dying in Russia and European countries. This makes one seriously wonder why
Russia's head red pins bird flu on U.S. Mar 15, 2006

The party elected me leader, and as the leader I must carry out the party's assignment to run for president. ... If the party assigns me to run, I am ready to run
Russia's top Communist to try for Kremlin Oct 25, 2005

Gennady Andreyevich Zyuganov (Russian: Генна́дий Андре́евич Зюга́нов; born 26 June 1944) is a Russian politician, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (since 1993), Chairman of the Union of Communist Parties - Communist Party of the Soviet Union (UCP-CPSU) (since 2001), deputy of the State Duma (since 1993), and a member of Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (since 1996).

Zyuganov was born in Mymrino, a farming village in Oryol Oblast, south of Moscow. The son and grandson of schoolteachers, he followed in their footsteps: after graduating from a secondary school, his first job was working there for one year as a physics teacher in 1961.

In 1962, he enrolled into the Department of Physics and Mathematics of Oryol Pedagogical Institute. From 1963 to 1966, he served in a Radiation, Chemical, and Biological Intelligence unit of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany. Zyuganov joined the Communist Party in 1966.

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