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- The Independent Online. David Cameron may have called a referendum on the EU to blackmail Europe, according to Vladimir Putin. The Russian president also questioned Mr Cameron’s decision to call the vote, as it has caused a “great problem”.
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- Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez waves as he arrives to vote on a constitutional amendment referendum at a polling station in Caracas Sunday Feb. 15, 2009. Chavez, already a decade in power, is trying for a second time to win the right to seek re-election far into the future with a referendum Sunday.
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Putin Wins, but Opposition Keeps Pressing With 80 percent of ballots counted, Mr. Putin had won 64.7 percent of the vote, the Central Election Commission said, comfortably above the 50 percent needed to avoid a runoff and extending his claim on power to 18 years, which would equal the rule of Leonid Brezhnev, the Soviet leader for much of the cold war.
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Russian presidential election, 2012 The final list was announced on 29 January. On 2 March, outgoing President Dmitry Medvedev addressed the nation on the national television channels about the following presidential election. He invited the citizens of Russia to vote in the election to be held on 4 March 2012. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin received 63.64% of the vote with almost 100% of the votes counted. With this election, Putin secured a record third term in the Kremlin.
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- In September 2015, the Russian Federation Council approved the use of Russian military in Syria to fight militant groups at a request from the Syrian President Bashar Assad.
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- Posted: 04/17/2014 11:03 am EDT Updated: 04/17/2014 3:59 pm EDT. Russian President Vladimir Putin quashed the possibility that Russia would annex Alaska while on a question-and-answer call-in show Thursday, adding that the former Russian colony is cold, too.
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Putin Won't Run For A Fourth Term? Russian President Hints That Russia Could See New Leader After 2018 Shoigu is also popular among Russian voters. Roughly 60 percent of Russians do not want Putin to run in the 2018 election, while 45 percent would prefer a new president without ties to the current government, according to the Moscow Times. Related.
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- Putin Wins France’s Election. Pro-Russian parties of the right did well in the weekend’s municipal vote. March 30, 2015 3:48 p.m. Vladimir Putin did just fine in France’s nationwide local elections, which concluded with a second and final round of voting on Sunday. Right-wing and far-right parties with leaders who cozy up to or embrace the Russian president got a combined 54.6% of vote in the most representative aspect of the two-phase balloting.
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Prominent Russians: Dmitry Medvedev Putin steps down. Putin’s second term as President expired in 2008 and under the country’s Constitution he wasn’t allowed to run for re-election for a third time. Before stepping down, Putin expressed his support for Medvedev, then First Deputy Prime Minister, as the next head of state.
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Russian presidential election, 2012 The election was for a new, extended term of six years. At the United Russia Congress in Moscow on 24 September 2011, Russian president Dmitry Medvedev proposed that his predecessor, Vladimir Putin stand for the Presidency in 2012; an offer which Putin accepted.
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- He invited the citizens of Russia to vote in the election to be held on 4 March 2012. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin received 63.64% of the vote with almost 100% of the votes counted. With this election, Putin secured a record third term in the Kremlin.
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Ukraine crisis: Putin calls for postponed referendum - the day's events Putin calls for postponed referendum in south-east Ukraine. In the first kernel of positive news in the Ukraine crisis for weeks, Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, has called for a postponement of the planned 11 May referendum on autonomy in south-east Ukraine.
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- Vladimir Putin takes the Presidential Oath in 2012 while placing his right hand on the Presidential copy of the Russian Constitution. Inauguration of the President of Russia is conducted six years after the inauguration of the previous president. If the President was elected in early elections, he takes the oath, thirty days after the announcement of the results.
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- Turkey referendum: Yes and No camps explain their cases Turkey’s referendum on Sunday pitches President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his supporters against the secular opposition and the left. Both sides talked to RFI on the eve of the vote. African war veterans receive French citizenship.
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- Actor Mandy Patinkin, who plays Inigo Montoya, recently had an interview with the New York Times, in which he expressed his disappointment with how Cruz has used his lines. Patinkin said that Cruz does not understand the film.
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Trump Praises Putin, US Shuts Down 2 Russian Compounds Amid Sanctions Over Alleged Election Hacking Trump Praises Putin, US Shuts Down 2 Russian Compounds Amid Sanctions Over Alleged Election Hacking. NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — President-elect Donald Trump on Friday praised Russian President Vladimir Putin for holding off on retaliation for new sanctions imposed by the Obama administration for its alleged interference in the U.S. election.
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- Russian President Vladimir Putin's working visit to Finland hosted by President of the Republic Sauli Niinistö on 27 July 2017 was compact but packed with events. The visit commemorating Finland’s 100 years of independence began in Punkaharju, Savonlinna, where President Niinistö welcomed President Putin outside Hotelli Punkaharju.
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Constitution of Russia The decrees and orders of the President of the Russian Federation shall be obligatory for fulfillment in the whole territory of the Russian Federation. 3. Decrees and orders of the President of the Russian Federation shall not run counter to the Constitution of the Russian Federation and the federal laws. Article 91.
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Crimea crisis quickens Nato's steps There is an unmistakeable spring in Nato's step. Nobody here at the alliance's headquarters in Brussels is happy about the Ukrainian drama but through his seizure of Crimea, Russia's President Vladimir Putin may have given a new sense of purpose to the world's oldest and most successful military alliance.
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Russia threatens nuclear attack on Ukraine President Vladimir Putin of Russia warned Ukraine's leader Viktor Yushchenko of retaliatory actions should his country join the Western alliance during a joint press conference in Moscow.
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Veto The President of Ukraine may refuse to sign a bill and return it to Parliament with his proposals. If the parliament agrees on his proposals, the President must sign the bill. Parliament may overturn a veto by a two-thirds majority. If Parliament overturns his veto, the President must sign the bill within 10 days.
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The Constitutionality of Vladimir Putinâs Third Term Indeed, Article 81, Section 3 of the Russian constitution clearly states that: “One person may not hold the position of Russian president for more than two terms in a row.” By any canon of textual interpretation, this provision limits an individual from three or more consecutive terms and nothing more.
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Russian government advocates âfederal systemâ for Ukraine Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov recently advocated a “federal system of government” for Ukraine: Lavrov said he hopes “all political forces in Ukraine will have an equal voice and can agree on which kind of concrete political, economic, financial, social, religious traditions will be respected in different parts of the country….”.
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Dear President Putin, As a voice of reason and a force for justice, you have the thanks and support of Syrians, Russians and all people of conscience around the world. Since 2011, Western leaders have been determined to turn Syria into a failed state.
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- Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin claimed victory in Russia's presidential election Photo: AP. A woman helps herself to a free newspaper in a metro station in Moscow Photo: REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin. Head of Russia's Central Election Commission Vladimir Churov Photo: REUTERS/Thomas Peter.
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The State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation 1 The Duma may initiate impeachment procedures against the President with a 2/3 vote.  The Duma confirms the Prime Minister as nominated by the President, and may make a vote of confidence in the Government of the Russian Federation.