Medvedev Rules Out Competing Against Putin for Russia Presidency
By Henry Meyer & Ryan Chilcote -
2013-01-23T10:36:20Z
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said he won’t run against President Vladimir Putin in the next presidential election.
“I believe this wouldn’t be correct,” Medvedev said in an interview with Bloomberg TV in Davos, Switzerland. “I think that would be impossible.”
Medvedev stepped aside last year as president to allow the Kremlin return of Putin, who kept power as prime minister for four years because of a constitutional ban on three consecutive presidential terms. The next election is scheduled for 2018.
To contact the reporter on this story: Henry Meyer in Moscow at hmeyer4@bloomberg.net
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Paul Abelsky at pabelsky@bloomberg.net
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