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KREMLIN

WORLD
Nov 4, 2016
Russia makes U-turn after evicting Amnesty from Moscow office
Human rights group Amnesty International can return to the Moscow office it was evicted from this week, a Kremlin human rights adviser said on Thursday after discussing the matter with President Vladimir Putin.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 18, 2016
Putin picks new wave of ideological cronies
Russia's president is doing his best to fill the ideological vacuum created by the fall of communism.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 16, 2015
Kremlin declines comment on report Putin absent in Moscow: Dozhd
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov declined comment on a report from the independent news outlet Dozhd on Sunday that said Russian President Vladimir Putin had not been in Moscow for the last several days.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 2, 2015
Putin's 'family values' only add to his legend
The Kremlin seems to be doing little to stop a fast-spreading story that President Vladimir Putin's younger daughter heads a company that is developing ways to stop the nation's brain drain.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 12, 2014
Russia sending aid convoy to Ukraine despite Western warnings of invasion pretext
President Vladimir Putin said Monday that Russia is sending an aid convoy to eastern Ukraine despite urgent Western warnings against using humanitarian help as a pretext for an invasion.

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