FINANCIAL TIMES: Dmitry Medvedev has made clear he would like a second term as Russian president but said he and prime minister Vladimir Putin would not run against each other next year.
In a Financial Times interview, the president also hinted that if he won a second term, he would introduce a more competitive political system – essential to the realisation of his vision for Russia’s economic modernisation. “Political competition is necessary for the development of the economy,” he said.
Making some of his most liberal statements as president, Mr Medvedev said important features of the “managed” democracy and state-dominated economy put in place by Mr Putin, his mentor and presidential predecessor, should be reversed. … (more)
