Vladmir Putin announced this week that he'd like the next President of Russia to be Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev. And yesterday, Medvedev returned the favor, saying he'd like to have Vladmir Putin as his Prime Minister. With Putin's popularity rating at over 80%, Medvedev is a virtual shoe-in -- so we have to ask -- who is Medvedev and what does this all mean for democracy in Russia?
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Russia's Next President ?
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Andrew Kuchins
Senior Fellow and Director, Russia and Eurasia Program, Center for Strategic & International Studies
Lilia Shevtsova
Senior Associate, and Co-chair of the Russian Domestic Politics and Political Institutions Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
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