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Election logo. Presidential elections were held in Russia on 2 March 2008 and resulted in the election of Dmitry Medvedev as the third President of Russia.Medvedev was elected for a four-year term with the support of incumbent president Vladimir Putin and five political parties (United Russia, Fair Russia, Agrarian Party, Civilian Power, and Russian Ecological Party "The Greens"), received 71% ...
Three-quarters of Medvedev's vote was Putin's electorate. According to surveys, had Putin and Medvedev both run for president in the same elections, Medvedev would have received 9% of the vote. [51] Medvedev with Putin on election day on 2 March 2008. The fairness of the election was disputed by international observers.
With Medvedev's election as president and Vladimir Putin—still the country's most popular politician—as Prime Minister, Russia was faced with an unprecedented situation: the constitutionally powerful President was now flanked with a highly influential Prime Minister. Media speculation was rife as to who of the two would be the country's ...
Instead, he selected a loyal subordinate, Dmitry Medvedev, to run for president. When elected, Medvedev appointed Putin as his prime minister. By most accounts, Putin remained firmly in power and ...
Ahead of the U.S. election, Russian officials from President Vladimir Putin down had said it made no difference to Moscow who won the White House, though Kremlin-guided state media coverage showed ...
Putin was re-elected president in the 2012 election and Medvedev became his prime minister. The term "tandemocracy" is a political neologism, a portmanteau of "tandem" + "-o-" + "-cracy" (rule). During the 2008 Russian presidential election, Dmitry Medvedev was elected president (head of the executive branch) with 73% of votes. He had been ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia accused Ukraine on Saturday of using "terrorist activities" to try to disrupt its presidential election and former President Dmitry Medvedev decried as "traitors" the ...
On December 10, 2007, roughly a week after United Russia handily won the legislative election, Putin announced that his hand-picked candidate to succeed him as president would be Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. [1] The following day Medvedev announced that, if elected president, he would nominate Putin to serve as his Prime Minister. [1]