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In this photo taken from video released by Investigative Committee of Russia on Sunday, March 24, 2024, a suspect in the Crocus City Hall shooting on Friday is escorted to the Russian Investigative Committee headquarters in Moscow, Russia. (Investigative Committee of Russia via AP)

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Russian massacre suspects' homeland is plagued by poverty and religious strife
By JIM HEINTZ - Associated Press
Mon,03/25/24-11:46AM , 42 Reads
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The four men charged with the massacre at a Moscow theater have been identified by authorities as citizens of Tajikistan, some of the thousands who migrate to Russia each year from the poorest of the former Soviet
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The embalmed body of Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet Union, is seen on display in his mausoleum on Moscow's Red Square, Russia, on Wednesday, April 16, 1997. This year marks the 100th anniversary of his death. While he remains lauded by Communists with his body still on view, he is more of a curiosity than a leading force in Russia. (AP Photo/Sergei Karpukhin, File)

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A century after Lenin's death, the USSR's founder seems to be an afterthought in modern Russia
By JIM HEINTZ - Associated Press
Sun,01/21/24-12:01AM , 136 Reads
Not long after the 1924 death of the founder of the Soviet Union, a popular poet soothed and thrilled the grieving country with these words: “Lenin lived, Lenin lives, Lenin will live.”
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Vladimir Putin has moved to prolong his repressive and unyielding grip on Russia for at least another six years, announcing his candidacy in the presidential election next March that he is all but certain to win. (Dec. 8)

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Putin will seek another term as Russian president, aiming to extend his rule of over two decades
By JIM HEINTZ - Associated Press
Fri,12/08/23-5:17AM , 489 Reads
Vladimir Putin on Friday moved to prolong his repressive and unyielding grip on Russia for at least another six years, announcing his candidacy in the presidential election next March that he is all but certain to win.
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Russian opposition figure Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former owner of the Yukos Oil Co., poses for a photo after being interviewed by The Associated Press in London, Tuesday, July 24, 2018. After President Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000, he was reported to have told about two dozen of the men regarded as Russia's top oligarchs that if they stayed out of politics, their wealth wouldn't be touched. Khodorkovsky, regarded as Russia's richest man at the time, established the Open Society reformist group and showing increased political ambitions. But he was arrested in 2003 and spent a decade in prison on convictions of tax evasion and embezzlement before Putin pardoned him and he left Russia. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)

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Under Putin, the uber-wealthy Russians known as 'oligarchs' are still rich but far less powerful
By JIM HEINTZ - Associated Press
Wed,12/06/23-12:06AM , 85 Reads
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — When Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000, the outside world viewed those Russians known as “oligarchs” as men who whose vast wealth, ruthlessly amassed, made them almost shadow rulers. A “government of the few,” in the word's etymology.
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