Vladimir Putin
RIGA, Latvia - Voters in Latvia, which has suffered one of the world's worst recessions, agreed to endure more painful economic reforms by re-electing the country's center-right government, a nearly complete vote count in Saturday's election shows.
RIGA, Latvia - Voters in Latvia, one of the world's most recession-scarred economies, have extended the mandate to the current center-right government to continue painful economic reforms, results of an exit poll and partial count of Saturday's election show.
MOSCOW - President Dmitry Medvedev fired Moscow's boisterous mayor on Tuesday, ousting the man who gave the capital a modern facelift but destroyed some of its most precious historic landmarks amid a construction boom that turned his wife into Russia's wealthiest woman.
MOSCOW - Russia's president fired Moscow mayor Yury Luzhkov on Tuesday, ending the 18-year reign of a man who gave the crumbling capital a glamorous facelift but was maligned for his bellicose posturing and staying on vacation while forest fires choked his city.
MOSCOW - Russia's president on Tuesday fired Yury Luzhkov, ending the 18-year rule of the Moscow mayor who gave the crumbling capital a glamorous facelift but was maligned for outdated values and bellicose posturing, and for continuing his vacation while smog from forest fires choked his city.
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