Inside Story - Russia's new president - 03 Mar 08 - Pt. 1

The results are in, and Vladimir Putin's hand-picked successor, Dmitry Medvedev, has won the Russian presidential elections in a landslide.

Medvedev has promised to carry on Putin's legacy. He says he wants Putin to be his prime minister, but just how much power the president will retain once he leaves office is unclear.

Other candidates in the race are protesting the results, claiming they were not allowed equal media coverage before the vote.

Election monitors are also saying the vote was not fair.

Has the election and results been a blow to Russian democracy? And how will Medvedev tackle the big issues facing the country?

Inside Story, with presenter Sami Zeidan, looks at the man who will be president and his vision for Russia.

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[aquamammal]

Awesome Coverage.

[islamfriends]

i think u r the one to be initiator,

it's better to be more tolerant,

[bass109]

lord jesus loves you with glory to him forever

[ryazandissident]

"Dmitri Medvedev is a little....." They should have stopped it there. Wake up people, Russia is a dictatorship, this was not a real election, the Kremlin is controlled by former and present KGB/FSB thugs. These clowns have no intention of allowing a credible opposition to exist and compete against them. Time to boycott Russia, but the money people in Washington, London, and Frankfurt would never contemplate such a suggestion.

[oliviersant]

just ridiculous

[ARandomCanadian]

lol, your not better than Russia

[ARandomCanadian]

Putin will be back

[purplehazygurl]

NObody knows that the Georgians attacked and tried to do ethlic cleansing of Ossetians and the Ossetians asked Russia for help, and that's why they got in there in the first place, but yet people still have a cold world mentality and belive everything that the one sided news says and what that Georgian liar said is true. WHATCH the wolrld news for once. Also people need to mention Iraq in situation like this, keeping the spotligght out of that.

[mihail2000]

AMERICA IS TRUE DEMOCRACY

[overoy]

Americans what russian to be more democratic that is the right person for that believe me