Topic: United Russia Party

Russia's top investigator says his agency is investigating a few dozen alleged electoral violations, even though opposition parties and election ...

Safin elected to Russian Parliament

Russian tennis icon Marat Safin has been elected into the lower house of the Russian Parliament - the State Duma - as a member of the ruling United Russia Party, local media reported.The 31-year-old 2000 US Open and 2005 Australian Open champion won ...

United Russia Party cling to majority

Vladimir Putin's United Russia Party win slight majority in most recent parliamentary elections, the biggest blow to power base in a decade...

Virgin Mary's belt arrives in Moscow before election

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Russians lined up outside Moscow's central cathedral Saturday for a chance to kiss a relic of the Virgin Mary brought from a Greek monastery a few weeks before a parliamentary election.The Cincture of the ...

Medvedev vows Russia won't stagnate under Putin

MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Dmitry Medvedev pledged Saturday that a proposed job swap designed to return Vladimir Putin to the Kremlin next year for a third presidential term will not usher in an era of stagnation in Russia."They are trying to frighten ...

Kremlin 'bans critical ballerina from TV'

A scandal-prone Russian ballerina on Monday accused the Kremlin of pulling two television shows about her after she voiced sympathy for jailed oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky and quit the ruling party.Anastasia Volochkova accused the Kremlin's chief ideologue Vladislav Surkov of ordering ...
Failed Russian Spy Anna Chapman is trying to cash-in on her new-found popularity by registering her name with the state patent agency, reports...

Russia submits U.S. nuclear arms deal to parliament

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Friday said he had submitted a landmark nuclear arms reduction treaty with the United States to the lower house of parliament for ratification."I today submitted for ratification the agreement on reducing strategic offensive arms ...

Russia After the Elections

The article reports on the determination of Russian President Vladimir Putin to lead the United Russia party during the coming parliamentary elections scheduled for December 2007. Russian observers believed that Putin would serve as prime minister or return to the post of ...

AP News Alert

MOSCOW (AP) _ President Vladimir Putin's United Russia party has 63.2 percent of the vote for parliament with ballots from nearly half of the precincts counted.President Vladimir Putin's United Russia party has 63.2 percent of the vote ...