What happened
A day after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced he would support his former chief of staff, Dmitri Medvedev, in Russia’s March presidential election, Medvedev returned the favor on Tuesday by saying he would ask Putin to serve as prime minister. (BusinessWeek.com)
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