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Medvedev wins Russian presidential election
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Russians went to the polls on March 2 to elect a successor to President Vladimir Putin. His protégé Dmitry Medvedev, the Kremlin candidate, won with 70 percent of the vote, according to the Central Election Commission.
Russians went to the polls on March 2 to elect President Vladimir Putin's successor. Dmitry Medvedev, a close ally of Putin, won with 70 percent of the vote, according to the Central Election Commission. The other main candidates were Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov, populist Vladimir Zhirinovsky, and Andrei Bogdanov. Putin, who is obliged by the constitution to step down after eight years in power, has accepted an advance offer from Medvedev to take up the prime minister's post. Russia's Central Elections Commission has promised to hold a free and fair election but Europe's main election observation body, the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, has boycotted the vote citing restrictions imposed by Russia.

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