The Moscow Times
Earlier last year Russian President Vladimir Putin stated he would not run for President again.
Kasyanov Hints He May Run in 2008
By Valeria Korchagina and Catherine Belton
Staff Writers
Kasyanov listening to a question at a news conference Thursday where he criticized the course the country has taken since he lost his post as prime minister a year ago.
Breaking a year of silence, former Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov on Thursday slammed Russia's leadership for turning away from democracy and indicated he may run for president in 2008 in order to correct the nation's course.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/02/25/001.html
Rights Group to Meet Chechen Envoy
Reuters
LONDON -- Chechen rebels seeking contact with the Kremlin will present peace proposals to a Russian human rights group at an unprecedented meeting in London on Thursday, the rebel leader's envoy said.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/02/25/017.html
Bush Hails Slovaks for Support in Iraq
By Andrea Dudikova
The Associated Press
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia -- U.S. President George W. Bush hailed Slovaks on Thursday as "friends, allies and brothers" in the fight for global freedom, and thanked the country for deploying a small but symbolic contingent of troops to Iraq.
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Global Eye
By Chris Floyd
Day in and day out, patriotic American dissidents on both the left and the right keep shovelling through the bloody muck of the Bush Imperium. The filth is endless, Augean; Salon.com recently catalogued 34 ongoing major scandals, equalling or surpassing the depravity of Watergate. Yet still the patriots bend to the task, tossing up steaming piles of ugly truth before the public.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/02/25/120.html
Oligarchs Toy With Their 2008 Options
By Vladimir Pribylovsky
Despite the word's newfangled interpretation, oligarchy in Greek means "the rule of the few," the well-off few who wield not only economic power, but also political power. Oligarchs are not millionaires sitting behind bars or pining away in emigre exile. They are the wealthy who send other millionaires to jail or force them to flee the country. Or, to rephrase President Vladimir Putin's well-known statement regarding the need to "distance" oligarchs from power, real oligarchs are not those who are distanced. They are the ones doing the distancing.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/02/25/006.html
Russian Bear Ignores Celtic Tiger
By Kim Iskyan
The chances of President Vladimir Putin achieving his oft-repeated objective of doubling the size of Russia's economy within a decade might improve if he looked to Ireland as a source of inspiration. But given its state-driven focus on the short term, the Kremlin seems to have missed the Irish lesson that common-sense economics, consistently implemented over a period of decades, is a far better path to economic prosperity.
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