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“Are you totally out of your mind?” Russian newspaper tycoon Alexander Lebedev exclaimed as he jumped to his feet. He stared combatively at property developer Sergei Polonsky, who had taunted Lebedev for ridiculing his claim to be a major charity donor.
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Japan protested Russian President Dmitry Medvedev ’s visit to a disputed island chain, at a time when the Japanese government is locked in a row with China over a separate territorial claim.
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A European court handed a partial victory to former managers of Yukos Oil Co., ruling that Russia had violated the company’s rights while rejecting a political motivation behind tax claims that led to its bankruptcy.
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Mikhail Prokhorov, the Russian billionaire who owns the New Jersey Nets, may form a new political movement after what he called a “hostile takeover” of his Pravoye Delo party by the Kremlin.
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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s hold on parliament weakened as opposition to his 12-year rule grows amid his campaign to regain the presidency in March.
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin may be using an icon of Mikhail Gorbachev ’s Glasnost policy to widen his appeal as his support sinks less than a year before presidential elections.
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Efforts to improve U.S.-Russian relations may be damaged unless the Obama administration agrees to a treaty guaranteeing that a proposed missile shield won’t target its former Cold War foe, Russia’s envoy to NATO said.
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A former executive at expert- networking firm Primary Global Research LLC, James Fleishman, was found guilty of helping pass confidential information to fund managers as part of an insider-trading scheme.
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is battling to halt creeping support for nationalist rhetoric to keep his United Russia party’s two-thirds majority from crumbling in Dec. 4 elections.
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Russia welcomed President Barack Obama’s re-election, expressing relief at the defeat of a Republican candidate who named Russia the No. 1 U.S. geopolitical foe.
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