Russia will soon have a new president, and it appears it will be Dmitri Medvedev, Vladimir Putin's hand-picked successor. Analyst Masha Lipman of the Carnegie Moscow Center tells Jacki Lyden that despite recent liberal-sounding rhetoric, Medvedev was chosen by Putin with the need to preserve the status quo in mind.
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