Centralization

...chairman of Gazprom, the state-controlled energy giant, Medvedev has been Putin's faithful servant, with no sign of questioning the centralization of power in the Kremlin. As a candidate, however, and in his six-minute inaugural address,...

In this article: Dmitry Medvedev, Vladimir Putin, Russia, Grand Kremlin Palace, Moscow, and Democracy

...over by predecessor, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Putin's rule saw a centralization of power in the Kremlin's hands, which critics say make Russia's political system unstable. Analysts have said the Kremlin has two options as public...

In this article: Dmitry Medvedev, Vladimir Putin, Russia, and Ireland

...for 2013. Since coming to power in 2000, Putin has overseen new controls on the news media and nongovernmental organizations, a centralization of government and the economy, and the marginalization of the political opposition. In his...

In this article: George W. Bush, Vladimir Putin, Russia, United States, Democracy, Europe, Prague, Bill Clinton, and Vaclav Havel

Medvedev inherited from his predecessor and mentor Vladimir Putin an awkward legacy: a confident, economically booming country haunted by a strong centralization of power in the Kremlin, the weak rule of law and rampant corruption. The...

In this article: Dmitry Medvedev, Vladimir Putin, Russia, South Ossetia, Mechel, and Parole

..."vertical power" set up by Putin. "Russia is walking away from the process of democratization... The level of centralization is worse than in Soviet times," Rakhimov told the Moskovsky Komsomolets daily. Some commentators played down the...

In this article: Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, Vladimir Putin, Democracy, Vedomosti, and United Russia

...a foreigner can only be a foe,'' Gladilshchikov wrote. Putin's critics have accused the Kremlin of playing down the crimes of the Soviet era to help justify its centralization of power. ``Admiral'' may seem to buck the trend in that here it's...

In this article: Alexander Kolchak, Vladimir Putin, Russia, Night Watch, and Bolsheviks

...helped sustain Russia's biggest economic boom in a generation. Critics argue that the centralization of power crippled democracy and deprived the economy of flexibility. Medvedev, who took over in May, has promised to install the "rule...

In this article: Dmitry Medvedev, Democracy, Vladimir Putin, U.S. Department of State, Russia, Fruit, and Banana

...Soviet spy, he was distrustful of political competition. And if Medvedev has had any concerns about the centralization of power under Putin, he has never voiced them publicly. The likelihood that Putin will become Medvedev's prime...

In this article: Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Medvedev, Gazprom, Anatoly Sobchak, Moscow, Russia, and Natural gas

...agencies by the Kremlin. Mr. Kasyanov, a former Kremlin insider who has become a critic of the centralization of power and official corruption under President Vladimir V. Putin, had not been expected to campaign on an even footing against...

In this article: Mikhail M. Kasyanov, Vladimir V. Putin, Dmitri A. Medvedev, Democratic Party, The Communist Party, Liberal Democratic Party, and Vladimir V. Zhirinovsky