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- Russian president sends message of solace to Chinese president
MOSCOW, May 12 (Xinhua) -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev Monday sent a message of solace to Chinese President Hu Jintao over a disastrous earthquake in China's Sichuan province, expressing his sympathy with the quake-hit victims, Kremlin said.
- Medvedev's test case with the West
(The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor - Before he became Russia's president last week, Dmitry Medvedev came across as less edgy than Vladimir Putin when talking about the West. Some Kremlin watchers thought this might mean a spring thaw in relations with the US and Europe. Now there's a case to test this theory.
- Venezuela to buy Russian weaponry worth $2 bln - paper
Venezuela is planning to conclude several contracts with Russia next month on the purchase of military equipment worth at least $2 billion, a leading Russian business daily said on Monday. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is expected to pay an official
- Barings sees China boom fuelling Russia growth
LONDON (Reuters) - Chinese demand for oil and commodities is driving Russia's growth, reducing its exposure to Western economies and offering good equity deals, Barings said on Monday. Risks remained, Baring Russia Fund manager Ghadir Abu Leil-Cooper
- Venezuela to Buy Military Aircraft from Russia
In the nearest month Venezuela intends to spend around 2 billion US dollars on Russian military equipment. It is expected that Venezuela President Hugo Chavez will personally come to Moscow by the end of May to make an agreement with Russia?s new
- Kiev cancels licence in hydrocarbon dispute
The Ukrainian prime minister cast a shadow over a strategically important hydrocarbon exploration project on Monday, openly accusing a US energy company leading the venture of holding backroom talks with Russia's Gazprom.Announcing her government had
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The defeat of the Russian Empire in World War I led to the seizure of power by the communists and the formation of the USSR. The brutal rule of Josef Stalin (1924-53) strengthened Russian dominance of the Soviet Union at a cost of tens of millions of lives. The Soviet economy and society stagnated in the following decades until General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev (1985-91) introduced glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring) in an attempt to modernize communism, but his initiatives inadvertently released forces that by December 1991 broke up the USSR into 15 independent republics. Since then, Russia has struggled in its efforts to build a democratic political system and market economy to replace the strict social, political, and economic controls of the communist period.
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