Prime Minister Vladimir Putin disparaged Russian dissidents in crude street language in an interview Monday and said they would keep getting beaten if...

The Kursk tragedy had a profound impact on Vladimir Putin’s management style. More than any other single event, it prompted Putin to construct his military-like power vertical. But...

Taking a new tact in fighting wildfires, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin granted a fire bell to a blogger who accused the government of incompetence. But the story resembled a publicity stunt aimed...

Putin's macho trip to the Far East, where he has shot gray whales, studied mammoth bones and palled around with brown bears, has... ... prime minister has chosen this moment to burnish his image. Ever since his first flight in a Sukhoi warplane in October 1999, Vladimir Putin has dazzled the world with a machismo extravaganza and scored high popularity ratings that have became the backbone...

For one columnist, the way that Vladimir Putin handled the Kursk disaster was notable. Exactly 10 years later, the country is confronted with another crisis, one of drought...

Russians like Prime Minister Vladimir Putin for boosting Moscow's image abroad and improving living standards, but fault him for not fighting corruption or reining...

About 3,000 people rallied in Kaliningrad on Saturday to demand Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's resignation and a return of direct gubernatorial elections. The gathering was considerably smaller than a protest of 10...

Bloggers took issue with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's decision to pilot a firefighting aircraft this week, saying he should be fined for operating a plane without a license...

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's plane was diverted from the airport of the Arctic town of Norilsk to another town, Khatanga, on Monday because of bad...

Former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky believes that he will remain in jail as long as Vladimir Putin is holding Russia's reins, his mother said in an interview. She accused Putin, the prime minister, of trying to block her...

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin fired darts from a crossbow at a gray whale off the Pacific coast on Wednesday in the latest in a series of man-versus-nature...

A public feud between Norilsk Nickel's two largest shareholders is damaging the company, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin told news agencies, while noting that Russia hadn't yet emerged from the economic crisis. A public feud between Norilsk...

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin wrote the foreword for a biography of former President Boris Yeltsin, the Ogonyok magazine reported. Putin wrote that "the...

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin got behind the wheel of a Glonass-equipped Lada Kalina to test the new Amur highway over the weekend, but he complained...

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin took the pilot's seat in the government's fight against wildfires Tuesday, hopping on a firefighting plane to put out two...

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin dipped a careful toe into the high-stakes battle for control of Russia's largest miner on Tuesday, telling Norilsk Nickel's...

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin singled out Volgograd City Hall in his criticism of corruption Friday, while blasting regional and local officials for some...

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has promised to severely punish bureaucrats who did not properly fight the fires. In reality, there is really only one bureaucrat...

Russia will launch its manned space missions from a new center in the Far East region of Amur in 2018, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said, as the country seeks greater independence for its space program. Russia will launch its manned space missions from...

In a rare reversal, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has backed down on his opposition to halting the construction of an $8 billion highway through the Khimki forest — even...