Russian voters will go to the polls on on Sunday (2 March) to elect a new president, with the Kremlin-backed Dmitry Medvedev seen as almost certain to win the country's most powerful seat.
Mr Medvedev currently serves as a first deputy prime minister as well as a chairman of Russia's state-run gas monopoly, Gazprom. He is a close ally of the outgoing President Vladimir Putin.
"Every voice of yours will be important," Mr Putin said in his farewell address on Friday (29 February),...
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