News - Andrey Illarionov
To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Laura Osio, media relations manager of the Cato Institute, +1-202-789-5200, losio@cato.org WASHINGTON, Dec.
The former economic adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Andrey Illarionov, has described the parliamentary election on 2 December as illegitimate and as President Putin's failure.
By Andrew Osborn A protest staged by opponents of President Vladimir Putin in the heart of Moscow was broken up by thousands of baton-wielding riot police yesterday and one of the event's main organisers, former world chess champion Garry Kasparov, detained for 10 hours afterwards.
By JUDITH INGRAM MOSCOW - Russia will take center stage this week when President Vladimir Putin hosts President Bush and other leaders of the world's biggest economies, reveling in resurgent global influence while facing the fiercest Western criticism since the Soviet collapse.