Putin springs surprise choice for PM's job
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President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday named the little-known head of a financial market watchdog as his prime minister in a surprise move that kept Russians guessing over who would succeed him in the Kremlin.
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President Vladimir Putin has appointed a firebrand nationalist who champions re-armament to counter the West as Russia's permanent representative to NATO, a Kremlin spokeswoman said on Thursday.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has placed his two most likely replacements in parallel positions in government to give them an equal chance ahead of expected presidential elections in 2008, Russian newspapers have said.
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Party unanimously chooses Dmitry Medvedev as presidential candidate, as Putin says he would be happy to serve as prime minister
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President Vladimir Putin named a new government Monday, tapping new economics and health ministers and retaining his current foreign and defense ministers as part of an expected shuffle before crucial parliamentary and presidential election
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A day after he was nominated to be prime minister, Viktor A. Zubkov said that he might run for president.
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Russian President Vladimir  Putin took the pilot's seat on Wednesday as he was shown around  a new airliner, leaving the man likely to succeed him in the  co-pilot's chair.
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The result was no surprise, as the Kremlin backed selection was always expected to win. Alkhanov is a Kremlin replacement for Akhmad Kadyrov who was assassinated in May of this year.
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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 in the Kremlin-controlled chamber.
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President Vladimir Putin has appointed a  firebrand nationalist who champions re-armament to counter the  West as Russia's permanent representative to NATO, a Kremlin  spokeswoman said on Thursday.
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The Russian president's announcement Monday was no surprise, but analysts had also expected him to bolster the relatively weakpremiership.
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MOSCOW, Sept. 12 -- President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday nominated a longtime associate who is a largely anonymous figure to be the country's new prime minister, scrambling predictions about who will be the Kremlin-backed candidate in next March's presidential election.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin's choice for new prime minister, Viktor Zubkov, was overwhelmingly approved in a Friday vote by Russia's lower house of parliament, a live broadcast on state-run TV showed.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin will seek to appoint regional rulers and change voting to aid national parties that can unite the country to fight terrorism after four attacks in 10 days killed at least 430 people.
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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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President Vladimir V. Putin added fresh uncertainty today into the question of who might succeed him.
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President Vladimir Putin's surprise choice as prime minister held talks with lawmakers Thursday before a parliamentary vote on his confirmation