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Russia's New President: Caretaker of Freethinker?
Mon, 03/03/2008 - 15:00
- Artist: Aura Bogado
- Length: 2:56 minutes (2.69 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)
Russia has a new president: Dmitry Medvedev, hand-picked by Valdimir Putin to succeed him, garnered more than 70 percent in Sunday's election, with a high voter turn-out. Yet Russia's opposition, protesters and Western Observers say that the election was neither free nor fair – comparing it to a stage show. International elections observers complained that Russia placed extremely tight restrictions on the process, and a Russian monitoring group says it received constant complaints. Nevertheless, Medvedhev has been officially declared the winner. Ben Seeder is FSRN's correspondent in Moscow…
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