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Police in Britain are studying security camera footage after finding radioactive traces at three London locations visited by a former Russian spy who accused Vladimir Putin of his murder in a deathbed statement. Here's all you should know about the ex-spy turned statesman. Russian president Vladimir Putin has vowed to remain "an influence" on his country's future even after stepping down from office in 2008. Russian riot police beat and detained protesters as thousands defied an official ban and attempted to stage a rally Saturday against President Vladimir Putin's government, which opponents accuse of rolling back freedoms. Tension between the United States and Russia over a missile-defense system in Europe is likely to take center stage at the Group of Eight summit of industrialized nations in Germany, which started Wednesday. Russia's Central Election Commission disqualified one of Kremlin's critics from the country's presidential election Sunday, claiming that the signatures collected for his nominating petitions were forged, the state news agency said Sunday. NATO military expansion near its borders. Russian President Vladimir Putin complained Friday about "one-way" Western military demands and promised that Russia will respond to U.S.
The world, and especially Russia's neighbors in Europe, will wait anxiously to see. Despite a flood of ink from political columnists hoping to make a Disney narrative out of the fall of the Berlin Wall, an event that has taken on a great narrative significance in America as a near religious, revolutionary triumph of good over evil, Reaganism over soft liberalism, freedom over tyranny. Never has so great a revolution been accomplished so swiftly and so peacefully, by ordinary men and women rather than utopians with guns. How far will Russia's new President Dimitry Medvedev emerge from the shadow of nuclear Armageddon; and to the democratic West, victorious after a century of ideological struggle.