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Operation Successor postponed
RIA Novosti ^ | Oct. 26, 2006 | Andrei Kolesnikov

Posted on 10/26/2006 2:40:23 PM PDT by sergey1973

MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Andrei Kolesnikov) -President Vladimir Putin has left the audience intrigued once again. He is not ready to name his successor yet, he said, and believes that Russian people have to "determine who is the strongest candidate."

At the same time, he did promise to name someone. "Of course, as any Russian citizen, I reserve the right of choice at a vote and I do not believe that I should give up my right to express my opinion in mass media," he said. "I will talk about it when the time is right."

It is not too easy to decipher the undecipherable. What did the Russian leader mean?

(Excerpt) Read more at en.rian.ru ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Russia
KEYWORDS: eurasia; kremlin; putin; russia

1 posted on 10/26/2006 2:40:24 PM PDT by sergey1973
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2 posted on 10/26/2006 2:41:21 PM PDT by sergey1973
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["What did the Russian leader mean?"]

What worries me most is that Russia may be falling into dictatorship.


3 posted on 10/26/2006 9:02:56 PM PDT by LjubivojeRadosavljevic
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['What worries me most is that Russia may be falling into dictatorship. ']

Well, what really worries me more are people that don't know...,and,
they don't know that they don't know...

I hope this is clear.


4 posted on 10/26/2006 11:40:27 PM PDT by LjubivojeRadosavljevic
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To: LjubivojeRadosavljevic

Do You know something that we don't?


5 posted on 10/27/2006 3:51:58 AM PDT by vargan
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