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Dmitry Medvedev's campaign is drawing to its end
Dmitry Medvedev, Senior Deputy Premier and candidate for president, left Russia for his first international negotiations without his benefactor Vladimir Putin, yesterday.
Speaking in Belgrade, Medvedev said without much ado that he was there to offer Serbia "support against the illegitimate campaign for unilateral recognition of Kosovo." Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica was touched. He suggested abolition of the visa regime between Serbia and Russia.
When in Budapest, Medvedev met with Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany to discuss cooperation in the gas sphere. Like Serbia, Hungary participates in the South Stream project.
His foreign trip thus taken care of, Medvedev will continue touring Russian regions today. He will chair a conference on the pensions reforms in Bashkortostan later today and meet with his followers in Nizhny Novgorod tomorrow.
Putin in the meantime is still doing what he can to promote Medvedev. Addressing CIS leaders at the informal summit last Friday, Putin introduced the successor to his foreign opposite numbers and reminded them that Medvedev and he had been working side by side for more than seventeen years.
Putin and Medvedev will convene a meeting of the presidium of the council for national projects this Thursday. Its agenda will include three issues: realization of national projects, demographic program, and gasification.
The campaign will culminate in the presidential address to the nation this Friday broadcast by all TV networks. A source in the presidential administration assumed that the president would almost definitely mention the "mobilization impulse" and encourage the Russians to vote for the strategy of national development.
As far as Konstantin Simonov of the Center for Political Conjuncture is concerned, Putin has been actively acquainting the successor with the current affairs all through the campaign. Campaigning for Medvedev, Putin ensured the successor's triumph in the election and his own security after the election.
Authors: Kira Latukhina, Yelena Ivanova
Published: Vedomosti, No 34, February 26, 2008, p. A2, "Final Duo"
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