Analysis: Russia's Power Duo Will Determine Future -- Medvedev, Putin Have Evolving Relationship

The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current) › March 03, 2008

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MOSCOW - As Russia's next president, Dmitry Medvedev appears set to play good cop to Vladimir Putin's bad cop.

Medvedev (med-VEHD'-ev) scored a crushing victory in Russia's presidential elections Sunday, taking more than 70 percent of the vote with ballots from 97 percent of electoral precincts counted. His victory was never in serious doubt once Putin backed him in December.

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Analysis: Russia's Power Duo Will Determine Future -- Medvedev, Putin Have Evolving Relationship

The youthful lawyer has suggested he will ease some of the repressive measures used to roll back democracy under his predecessor, and seems likely to present a friendlier face to the West. But Putin, the stern former KGB officer who has ruled Russia for ...

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