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Topic: Vladimir Putin

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November 12, 2012
6:17 pm

Residents of Hitler's hometown fear that his former house could become a pilgrimage site for neo-Nazis if sold to the wrong buyer. (Kerstin Joensson/AP)

Russian MP wants to buy Hitler’s first home — so he can destroy it

Frantz Klintsevich, a member of Vladimir Putin’s ruling party, has launched a campaign to raise $2.8 million to purchase the dictator’s Austrian birthplace

By Nissan Tzur

November 8, 2012
10:37 pm

Israel President Shimon Peres meets with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin on Thursday (photo credit: Mark Neyman/GPO/Flash90)

Putin, Obama share burden of saving world, Peres says during Moscow trip

Israel president appeals for Russia to stop Iran, while his counterpart urges Israel to resume peace talks with the Palestinians

By Philip Podolsky

November 7, 2012
4:00 pm

President Shimon Peres received an honorary degree from The Russian Academy of Sciences on Wednesday, November 7 (photo credit: Mark Neyman/GPO/Flash90)

Peres, in Moscow, says he’s not running in any more elections

Asked about possible bid for premiership, president declares he will continue to serve the nation in his current position

By Stuart Winer

November 6, 2012
6:45 am

Shimon Peres at his Jerusalem residence, October 4 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Peres heads to Russia to inaugurate Jewish museum

President to meet Putin, discuss Iran nuclear threat and regional peace

By Times of Israel staff

November 2, 2012
1:59 pm

Minister of Communications Moshe Kahlon, in the Knesset in August. (photo credit: Yoav Ari Dudkevitch/FLASH90)

Kahlon craze hits the press

Election fever at an all-time high and the water company declares war on the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate

By Ilan Ben Zion

October 28, 2012
11:40 am

More then 6,000 young Russian-speaking Jews participated in summer camp programs offered by the Jewish Agency in the former Soviet Union -- activities that so far have avoided problems with the government. (Photo credit: Courtesy of the Jewish Agency via JTA)

In Putin’s Russia, Jewish groups adopt silence as best protection

While they’ve avoided trouble so far, aid organizations fear getting swept up in growing repression

October 24, 2012
4:45 pm

President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney shake hands at Monday night's foreign policy debate, while moderator Bob Schieffer looks on (photo credit: Charlie Neibergall/AP)

Full text: Obama-Romney foreign policy presidential debate

Hopefuls mention Israel 31 times in course of third and final confrontation

October 20, 2012
11:00 am

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney delivering a foreign policy speech at the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) in Lexington, Va. in early October. Romney promises to stand up to Russia and Vladimir Putin if he's elected president. (photo credit: AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Romney promises to stand up to Russia, America’s ‘biggest foe’

Some analysts believe he’ll have to tone down his anti-Moscow rhetoric if elected

By Desmond Butler

October 19, 2012
11:57 am

Putin opposes the wearing of headscarves in schools

From the web Ynet: Russian president says his country is a secular state that must create equal conditions for its citizens

September 9, 2012
2:15 pm

Two Free Syrian Army fighter evacuate a wounded comrade in Aleppo, September 7 (photo credit: AP/Manu Brabo)

Aleppo pummeled as sectarian war looms ever nearer

An Arab editor bemoans the exploitation of female Syrian refugees; Egypt and Israel are on the same page on Sinai

By Elhanan Miller

September 1, 2012
1:06 pm

In this Jan. 26, 2000 file photo Russian tycoons Boris Berezovsky, left, and Roman Abramovich, then both lawmakers, walk after the session of the State Duma, parliament's lower house, in Moscow, Russia. (photo credit: AP)

Russian oligarch Abramovich wins multibillion-dollar London court battle

Fellow tycoon Berezovsky loses huge case against Chelsea owner over oil wealth

July 24, 2012
8:52 pm

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem (photo credit: AP/Sergey Ponomarev)

Russia scolds Syria over chemical weapons threat

Syrian ambassador to Cyprus defects to the opposition

By AP and Times of Israel staff

July 18, 2012
2:37 am

Russian President Vladimir Putin walks as United Nations special envoy Kofi Annan looks on before their talks in Moscow, Tuesday, July 17, 2012. (photo credit: Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP)

UN to vote on new Syria sanctions on Wednesday

With mandate of observer mission set to expire, Western powers want to increase pressure on Damascus

By Edith M. Lederer and Jim Heintz

July 18, 2012
12:22 am

As Putin meets with Annan, Russia inches toward consensus on Syria

Moscow calls for ‘immediate implementation’ of UN special envoy’s plan to end deadly fighting

By Jim Heintz

July 11, 2012
7:34 pm

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (right) speaks with UN Special Envoy Kofi Annan (center) and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon (left) in Geneva, June 2012 (photo credit: AP/Keystone, Martial Trezzini)

Syrian opposition blames Russia for ‘suffering’

Moscow says its current arms contracts with Syria do not include weapons to be used against civilians

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