Russia’s newly sworn-in President Vladimir Putin has submitted a bill to the State Duma, nominating Dmitry Medvedev as the new prime minister under a job swap agreement announced last year.
The lower house of parliament’s speaker Sergei Naryshkin said Monday that Putin submitted the bill shortly after his inauguration for a third Kremlin term.
Putin named Medvedev as his chosen prime minister, before winning the March 4 presidential vote. The nomination is expected to be approved by the house on Tuesday.
This comes as opposition groups staged a protest on Sunday in Moscow against Putin’s return to the Kremlin.
Protesters are angry that Putin is extending his already 12-year hold on power for six more years saying it will stifle political and economic reforms in the country.
According to the media reports, some 400 people, including opposition leaders, were arrested during the Sunday protest.
Medvedev has served as first deputy prime minister from 2005 to 2008 and as president from 2008 to 2012. He was the third and youngest Russian head of state since the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s.
Putin, 59, has served as president for two consecutive terms from 2000 to 2008 and worked as the country’s prime minister from 2008 to 2012.
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Putin or Obama.
anyday i will choose putin
Putin has made himself president and nominates Medvedev as PM – how could this occur in a country that tries to portray itself as democratic. Truth is, Putin is a vicious dictator who will do anything to keep a grip on power. He has murdered the likes of Litvinenko with Polonium. Even Litvinenko’s father and Litvinenko himself – at his deathbed named Putin as the one who ordered his execution in London. I have little doubt that there is a war looming and my view (compliments of a good friend of mine)is that Israel will attack Iran during the London Olympics. This is the only chance they will have to launch such an attack because the eyes of the world will be on the Olympics. WIth this – Russia may just rear its bearlike head and threaten to retaliate but the retaliation will not succeed.