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Russian police officers detain a demonstrator protesting against a bill banning U.S. adoptions of Russian children outside the Russian parliament’s upper chamber in Moscow on Wednesday. The chamber unanimously voted in favor of the measure. (Associated Press)

Ban on U.S. adoptions goes to Putin

By Nataliya Vasilyeva - Associated Press

Briefly: Monti won’t run for prime minister

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Nataliya Magnitskaya, mother of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who died in jail, holds his portrait during an interview with the AP in Moscow in 2009. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Russia gives initial OK to ban on adoptions by Americans

By Jim Heintz

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov walks Dec. 10, 2012, after speaking at the International Parliamentary Forum in Moscow, Russia. (Associated Press)

Experts: Russia likely to stay course on Assad

By Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

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Is Russia’s Putin starting to get creaky?

By Marc Bennetts - Special to The Washington Times

Court bans video of Pussy Riot’s performance

By MAX SEDDON - Associated Press

Communist Party supporters gather near a monument to Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin to commemorate the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in St. Petersburg on Nov. 7. Mr. Putin abolished the national holiday in 2005, but the Russian president once called the Soviet Union’s breakup the “greatest geopolitical catastrophe” of the 1900s. (Associated Press)

Socialism may be waning, but not for young Russians

By Marc Bennetts - Special to The Washington Times

Russian human rights activist Lyudmila Alexeyeva speaks at a news conference in Moscow, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012. Russian non-government organizations say they will ignore a new Kremlin law obliging those of them that receive funding from abroad to register as “foreign agents.” Lyudmila Alexeyeva, a Soviet-era dissident who heads the Moscow Helsinki Group said Thursday that Russian rights activists have “survived the Soviet power and .. will survive this.” (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

Russian activists to boycott law on NGOs

By Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a meeting with members of the Presidential Human Rights Council in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Monday, Nov. 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Yuri Kochetkov, Pool)

Russia expands treason law, critics fear crackdown

By Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

**FILE** Russian President Vladimir Putin walks prior to a Sept. 26, 2012, ceremony of receiving credentials in Moscow's Kremlin. (Associated Press)

Kyrgyzstan risks regional water fight, as Russia waits in the wings

By Ruby Russell and Askar Erkebaуev - Special to The Washington Times

In this still image from a BarackObama.com campaign video, President Obama wipes away tears as he thanks members of his campaign staff and volunteers in Chicago on Nov. 7, 2012, a day after he won re-election. (Associated Press/BarackObama.com)

Changing times: Politicians’ tears more common now

By Gregory Katz - Associated Press

World Briefs: Putin fires defense chief linked to fraud probe

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

**FILE** Moscow region governor Sergei Shoigu (right) and Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov arrive June 26, 2012, at the village of Petrovskopye, Moscow, for a meeting on the transferal of some of the military assets into civilian hands. (Associated Press/RIA Novosti, Yekaterina Shtukina, Government Press service)

Intrigue swirls around Russia defense chief’s fall

By Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

** FILE ** Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov (left), President Vladimir Putin (center) and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev (bottom right) watch the Victory Day parade in Moscow on Wednesday, May 9, 2012. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Putin fires defense minister in wake of scandal

By Jim Heintz - Associated Press

Demonstrators hold posters with portraits of jailed opposition activists Vladimir Akimenkov and Leonid Razvozzhayev during a rally in Moscow on Oct. 30. The rally went on peacefully amid heavy police cordons. Russian President Vladimir Putin has insisted that no one is in prison for opposing his policies. (Associated Press)

Anti-Putin activists feel targeted

By Marc Bennetts - Special to The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin (center) walks with religious leaders of various denominations at Red Square in Moscow as they go to place flowers at a statue of Minin and Pozharsky, the leaders of a struggle against foreign invaders in 1612, to mark the National Unity Day on Sunday, Nov. 4, 2012. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)

Putin appears in public after health rumors soar

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Ultranationalist demonstrators and activists march carrying the Russian Empire's black, yellow and white flag to mark National Unity Day, on the outskirts of Moscow on Sunday, Nov. 4, 2012. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

Russian nationalists protest Putin in Moscow march

By Max Seddon - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin flies in a motorized hang glider alongside two Siberian white cranes over Russia's Yamal Peninsula on Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, Presidential Press Service)

Putin lies low; spokesman’s reasons seem odd

By Jim Heintz - Associated Press

Briefly: Cash-strapped EU needs more money

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Leonid Razvozzhayev (AP Photo/APTN)

Russian lawmakers widen definition of treason

By Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press