Tag: Stepashin

Interfax: Stepashin: U.S., its allies are looking to get Putin out of power, isolate Russia

United States, U.S.-Russian Relations
File Photo of Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama Seated with Flags Behind

MOSCOW. Sept 5 (Interfax) – Sergei Stepashin, chairman of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society and former prime minister of Russia, believes the purpose of the sanctions imposed by the U.S. and its allies on Russia is to get Vladimir Putin out of power and isolate Russia on the international scene. In his letter to U.S. President Barack Obama, the text […]

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346 Reports Later, Stepashin Steps Down from Audit Chamber

Budget, Politics, Government, Protests, Elections
Kremlin and St. Basil's

(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Alexander Panin – September 11, 2013) Audit Chamber chief Sergei Stepashin, who is being replaced by presidential aide Tatyana Golikova, said goodbye to his colleagues at the chamber’s headquarters in downtown Moscow on Tuesday, to a round of applause and the patriotic marching tune “Farewell of Slavyanka.” Stepashin, who earlier headed the Interior Ministry and […]

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