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AP - Mikhail Prokhorov, one of Russia's richest tycoons and the owner of the New Jersey Nets basketball team, said Monday he will run against Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in the March presidential election. More...

Wild tiger populations have dropped from 100,000 a century ago to 3,200 today. In 2010, the Year of the Tiger, about 3,600 of the majestic predators remain in the wild, their existence threatened by habitat-loss and poaching. If there is one man who can give hope to a species whose numbers...

Russia announces $800 million spaceport MOSCOW, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says his country will build a new $800 million spaceport in the country's Far East, close to its border with China. The new cosmodrome, to be built in the Far Eastern Amur region, will ease dependency on the...

Russian-Ukrainian trade in quick recovery MOSCOW, (UPI) -- Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said trade with Ukraine was near to getting back to where it was before the global recession struck. "Last year our trade collapsed from $40 billion to $22 billion, but in the first four months of...

George Bush, Queen Elizabeth, and Vladimir Putin all die and go to hell. While there, they spy a red phone and ask what the phone is for. The devil tells them it is for calling back to Earth. Putin asks to call Russia and talks for 5 minutes. When he is finished the devil informs him that the...

Dagestan suicide bombings have Russia looking to Putin

PITTSBURGH – Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday he could run for a second term in 2012, but made clear a job swap with his powerful Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was also possible. The issue of who will take the Kremlin post in 2012 is a sensitive one for investors in Russia...

Medvedev: Russia's cautious champion of reform MOSCOW – A year after his election as Russia's president, Dmitry Medvedev seems eager to push for reform but reluctant to act. His calls last year for democracy and justice raised hopes in Russia for an easing of the pressure on Russia's tiny...