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As massive protests sweep Russia, former Soviet Union president Mikhail Gorbachev says that Prime Minister Vladamir Putin should resign. Gorbachev, 80, on Dec. 24 said Putin, 59, had been in power for too long after two terms as president and one as prime minister. “There shouldn’t be a monopoly of power, we don’t need any czars,” he told Ekho Moskvy …

Russian president Vladimir Putin: “It is already clear that a new phase in the arms race is unfolding in the world. It is not our fault, because we did not start it.” Putin is alarmed by U.S. plans to include Poland and the Czech Republic in a new missile defense shield. Putin: “In effect, we are forced to retaliate, to …

Russia president Vladimir Putin has been named Time Magazine’s Person Of The Year. Putin is not a boy scout. He is not a democrat in any way that the West would define it. He is not a paragon of free speech. He stands, above all, for stability—stability before freedom, stability before choice, stability in a country that has hardly seen …