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Putin still the power behind Russian ‘throne’, says key adviser

Putin still the power behind Russian ‘throne’, says key adviserMoscow, May 21  : Vladimir Putin remains the country's real power ,Russian president Dmitry Medvedev ,one of his closest allies has confirmed.

According to, Igor Yurgens, one of Medvedev's most trusted aides, Putin has kept most of the presidential powers with him.

"There are difficulties in having a very strong president and a new but not so strong – bureaucratically, I mean, not intellectually – president," Yurgens told European business executives at a conference in Moscow,” said Yurgens.

Peugeot and Mitsubishi to produce together in Russia

Paris  -  French car-maker PSA Peugeot Citroen said Monday it had signed an agreement with Japanese manufacturer Mitsubishi Motors Corporation to create a joint venture for the production of cars i

Russian tycoon Roman Abramovich – the mystery buyer of Bacon-Freud’s masterpieces

London, May 18 : The mystery buyer of Francis Bacon’s ‘Triptych’, which was sold for 86.3 million dollars and Lucian Freud’s Benefits Supervisor Sleeping, 1995, which fetched 33.6 million dollars,

Brazil, Russia, China and India leaders meet to broaden ties

Vladimir PutinMoscow - The foreign ministers of Brazil, Russia, India and China met for the

BRIC nations urge for U.N. reforms to make it more efficient

Yekatarinburg (Russia), May 16 (ANI): Foreign Ministers of Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC), the world's emerging and rapidly growing economies, have urged for reforming the United Nations to

Last members of doomsday cult emerge from cave

RussiaMoscow  - The nine remaining members of an extreme Orthodox cult surfaced Friday from a cave wh

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