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Putin's Kiss portrays contemporary life in Russia through the story of Masha, a 19 year-old girl who is a member of Nashi, a political youth organization connected with the Kremlin.

The Russian press reported early in January of 2012 that Vladislav Surkov, a deputy prime minister in the Russian government, will be responsible for the modernization of education, science, and healthcare as well as for the development of the global navigation system .

Alexander Nevsky submarine , Yury Dolgoruky submarine , Nashi , Kommersant , VTB , Kaspersky Lab , Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs , Ban Ki-moon , Alla Dzhioyeva , Mikhail Prokhorov , Vladimir Putin , Greece , Syria , Maldives , South Ossetia , Russia Supporters of presidential candidate Vladimir Putin plan to hold a march ... (more)

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In the end, the February 9 event stretched all the way to 10 minutes -- enough time for several of its participants to be detained by police.

The group has published emails it said were from the youth movement Nashi, suggesting Russian bloggers were paid to support the government.

A group claiming to be affiliated with Anonymous recently released hacked emails from leaders of the pro-Kremlin youth group Nashi that show the group was paying journalists and bloggers hundreds of thousands of dollars for positive coverage, according to The Guardian .

Nashi spokeswoman caught red-handed planning attacks on pro-opposition paper Hacked emails of Nashi spokesman Kristina Potupchik revealed that the Russian youth group Nashi prepared a DDoS attack against the pro-opposition Kommersant newspaper website.In http://www.gazeta.runews/2012/02/09/a_3994197.shtml Hacked emails of Nashi spokesman Kristina ... (more)

Last year, I wrote about Russia's "human bots," aka its 30-ruble army -- online commentators who were paid to trawl the web and comment on articles critical of the Kremlin.

Bone-chilling cold did little to lessen the spirit of protesters calling for political reform as tens of thousands took to the streets of Moscow on Saturday in a show of strength that does not appear to have diminished.

For a month, Moscow was bracing itself for the February 4 Rally. It was pre-planned and prepared by the anti-Putin pro-Western liberal opposition.

Vladimir Putin flexes his political muscle at a summer camp organised by the youth group Nashi.

Russian Anonymous activists tell why they hacked pro-Kremlin officials e-mails Hackers associated with the Anonymous activist group have leaked emails of two representatives of Rosmolodezh a pro-Kremlin youth organization.

The second large trend reshaping Russia's political landscape is the strengthening of numerous movements opposed to Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin or the Kremlin.

The Kremlin tactic of trying to match a grassroots opposition protest in Moscow with its own mass rallies could backfire because government loyalists have no real desire to take part in street protests, political analysts said Saturday, as opponents and supporters of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin staged separate rallies in Moscow.

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Head of pro-Kremlin youth group due to quit after elections, sources say Vasiliy Yakemenko, founder and head of pro-Kremlin youth organization Nashi is preparing to leave his post after the presidential elections in March 2012.

Moscow and Tokyo are ready to seek compromise on the conclusion of a bilateral World War II peace treaty, despite the fact that their stances on its possible conditions are different, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.

Former Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, who has offered to mediate talks between the Kremlin and the opposition, said he did not believe that Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev agreed four years ago to switch jobs in 2012.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's indecisiveness triggered December's mass protests as people felt they did not have a reliable leader, Federal Agency for Youth Affairs chief Vasily Yakemenko said on Tuesday.