Putin Should Run in 2012 Elections, Ruling Party Official Says
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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin should run in next year’s presidential elections, according to a senior member of Russia’s ruling party.
“As far as our position on the 2012 elections is concerned, United Russia will focus on its leader, Vladimir Putin,” said Yury Shuvalov, deputy head of the presidium of United Russia’s general council, in comments posted today on the party website. “We look at his candidacy as the priority for whom to put forward from our party in the presidential elections.”