Vladimir Putin's inauguration was full of tsarist pageantry. But something was missing: the Russian people. Tom Parfitt looks at the show. full story ![]()

Russian president Vladimir Putin is attempting to show a different side to his character in a series of photographs released on Wednesday.
bbci.co.uk (1 month and 6 days ago)
Opponents of Russian President Vladimir Putin are gathering for a major protest rally that will be carried LIVE on CBCNews.ca at 11 a.m. ET. It marks the one-year anniversary of a protest on the eve of Putin's inauguration that ended in clashes between police and demonstrators.
cbc.ca (11 days ago)
About a year ago, in what sounded like a reluctant endorsement by Russia’s big business of Vladimir Putin’s return to the presidency,VTB president Andrei Kostin wrote in Kommersant that for the country to move forward Putin should declare after the inauguration that it would be his last term in office and that he would not seek re-election in 2018.
sptimes.ru (2 months and 14 days ago)

The capitalists will sell us the rope on which we hang them, said Vladimir Lenin. And for his successor in the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin, Cyprus shows the truth of that maxim, writes EDWARD LUCAS.
dailymail.co.uk (1 month and 26 days ago)

About 20,000 protesters thronged Bolotnaya Square across from the Kremlin on Monday, a year after a protest at the same spot turned violent on the eve of President Vladimir Putin's inauguration.
azstarnet.com (11 days ago)
MOSCOW (AP) -- About 20,000 protesters thronged Bolotnaya Square across from the Kremlin on Monday, a year after a protest at the same spot turned violent on the eve of President Vladimir Putin's inauguration....
ap.org (11 days ago)
MOSCOW—About 20,000 protesters thronged Bolotnaya Square across from the Kremlin on Monday, a year after a protest at the same spot turned violent on the eve of President Vladimir Putin's inauguration.
denverpost.com (11 days ago)
MOSCOW (AP) — About 20,000 protesters thronged Bolotnaya Square across from the Kremlin on Monday, a year after a protest at the same spot turned violent on the eve of President Vladimir Putin's inauguration.
boston.com (11 days ago)
Russian President Vladimir Putin has attended the inauguration of a building that will host the Club of the Cheerful and Sharp-Witted, or the KVN, humor show in Moscow.
rian.ru (1 month and 15 days ago)
Russian President Vladimir Putin does not look like an easy boss, based on this video footage, which was allegedly taken in secret during a senior cabinet meeting. The video, leaked to the outlet LifeNews and now making big rounds on the Russian web, shows him relentlessly criticizing Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev's senior cabinet ministers, threatening to fire all of them....
washingtonpost.com (29 days ago)
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