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• Russian minister: Slow response let fires spread (AP) September 7, 2010
  MOSCOW – Russia would have suffered less severe damage from wildfires this summer if authorities had engaged firefighting aircraft more quickly, a Cabinet member said Tuesday. Emergencies Minister Sergei Shoigu told lawmakers that officials in the regions affected by the fires should have asked the federal government to send planes to help fight blazes befor […]
• Russia signals '10 arms pact ratification up to U.S. (Reuters) September 7, 2010
  MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia is ready to ratify a nuclear arms pact with the United States this year but the landmark treaty could face problems in the U.S. Senate, the Kremlin-backed speaker of parliament said on Tuesday. Speaker Boris Gryzlov's comments were a fresh indication that the Russian parliament is unlikely to ratify the new START treaty signed […]
• Putin hints at return to Russian presidency (AFP) September 7, 2010
  SOCHI, Russia (AFP) – Expectations intensified Tuesday that Prime Minister Vladimir Putin may run again for the Russian presidency after he drew a surprise comparison with four-term US president Franklin D. Roosevelt. Speculation was rife over whether Putin or President Dmitry Medvedev would stand in the 2012 polls and Putin pledged that neither he nor the c […]
• Russia's Putin hints at Kremlin return in 2012 (Reuters) September 6, 2010
  SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) – Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin gave a strong hint on Monday that he would run for president in 2012, a step that would almost certainly give him a second spell as Kremlin chief. Putin is the dominant partner in a ruling tandem with President Dmitry Medvedev, the younger man he tapped as his favored successor when a constituti […]
• Eccentric Russian regional strongman to step down (AP) September 6, 2010
  MOSCOW – A Russian regional leader who claims to have visited an alien spaceship says he is retiring. Kirsan Ilyumzhinov told Interfax agency Monday that will step down after his term expires in October. Since 1993, Ilyumzhinov has headed the predominantly Buddhist southern province of Kalmykia. The arid, impoverished area is dominated by Mongol-speaking Kal […]

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