Deputies 'Cheated' On Police Reform

By Alexander Bratersky

But lawmakers will also cull numerous crucial amendments proposed by minority parties, effectively crippling the bill that the Kremlin introduced last year with much fanfare after a public discussion.

The Duma's Security Committee on Thursday recommended dropping dozens of the 560 amendments submitted to the bill on police reform ahead of a general vote on Monday.

Tandem Always Watching, Putin Says

By Nabi Abdullaev

A custodian washing the floor in a store at the Savyolovsky electronics market during Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s live call-in show on Thursday.

Russia is never abandoned by the watchful eye of one of its two rulers, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Thursday during a record Q&A marathon in which he lashed out at the opposition, called former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky a criminal, and denounced the intelligence officer who betrayed Russian agents to the United States as a "brute" and a "pig."