Latest poll gives Kremlin's Medvedev 71 percent
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Dmitry Medvedev, President Vladimir  Putin's chosen successor, will win 71 percent of the votes in  March's Russian presidential election, state-owned pollster  VTsIOM predicted on Thursday.
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MOSCOW AP) Â Dmitry Medvedev, the presumed next president of Russia, on Thursday fended off concerns that the March 2 election would come under criticism from the West.
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The popularity of Dmitry Medvedev,  anointed successor of Russian President Vladimir Putin, soared  in an opinion poll released on Thursday.
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Russia's lower house of parliament confirmed President Vladimir Putin's choice as prime minister on Friday, approving the previously obscure official Viktor Zubkov in a vote whose result was a foregone conclusion
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CHELYABINSK, Russia  - President Vladimir Putin's chosen successor, Dmitry Medvedev, dismissed fears on Thursday that the Kremlin would nationalize Russia's economy and said the state would not "grab everything for itself".
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The Russian president is losing popular support over his pension reforms and 'managed democracy.'
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President Vladimir Putin said on Monday he would become prime minister in a future Russian government if his close ally Dmitry Medvedev was elected president, giving Putin a new role after he leaves the Kremlin.
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Russia&#39;s parliament is expected to vote  overwhelmingly on Friday to approve President Vladimir Putin&#39;s  nominee for prime minister, political unknown Viktor Zubkov.
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The popularity of Russia's First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has more than doubled since President Vladimir Putin named him his preferred successor two weeks ago, an opinion poll showed on Thursday.
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Moscow, Aug. 30 (VNA) - Chechnya&#39;s Interior Minister Alu Alkhanov gained 72.2 percent of the total vote in the republicâs first-round presidential election and was assured of being elected president, local media reported on Monday.
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Russian First Deputy Prime Minister  Dmitry Medvedev, a frontrunner for the presidency next year,  will hold a live nationwide Web conference next month - a forum  normally reserved for President Vladimir Putin.
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As expected, the Kremlin-backed candidate Alu Alkhanov has won more than 70 per cent of the vote, and is already outlining his plans for the war-weary region.
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ST PETERSBURG, Russia  - Regional polls in Russia next Sunday may be a blueprint for nationwide elections in the coming 18 months. If they are, the Kremlin's harshest critics will be watching the national votes from the sidelines.
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Up to 31 million Russians voted on Sunday in regional elections expected to reinforce the dominance of two big pro-Kremlin parties ahead of nationwide parliamentary polls in December.
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KIEV : Pro-Russian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich was ahead in preliminary results published Monday from Ukraine&#39;s presidential election, collecting 47.
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The press keeps up the heat on Russian President Vladimir Putin's plans to strength central government
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Grozny, Russia - The Russian government&#39;s choice for president of war-battered Chechnya easily won an election that came in the wake of last week&#39;s terrorist destruction of two airliners, the ITAR-Tass news agency cited election officials as saying on