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Medvedev says he won't run against Putin. Medvedev says he wants to run for re-election. Medvedev says he and Putin are not rivals. Medvedev bemoans the lack of political competition. What messages is he sending?Russia's President Medvedev "won't stand against Putin"
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has said he finds it "hard to imagine" that he and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin would run against each other at next year's presidential election.
Competition between them could, he said, "be harmful".
But, speaking to the Financial Times, Mr Medvedev declined to confirm whether he would stand for a second term…
Mr Medvedev repeated his vow to modernise the country, and said this depended on expanding political competition.
He warned that "in the absence of political competition the foundations of a market economy were beginning to disappear."
He hinted at reversing some of the political centralisation and state control of the economy put in place under Mr Putin.
"In some countries there is a rather successful coexistence of market-oriented economies and limited political competition," he said. "This is not for us."…
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