Medvedev Sworn In as New Russian President

MOSCOW -- Russia's Vladimir Putin was to be confirmed Thursday as prime minister, a day after his aide Dmitry Medvedev became president in a power shift that raises questions over who will really be in charge. There was no doubt that Putin, 55, would win parliamentary backing: his United Russia party alone controls more than two thirds of seats. Putin's move to the premiership after eight years as president completed a carefully choreographed scheme in which his trusted protege Medvedev, 42, was inaugurated president on Wednesday.
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MOSCOW -- With the swearing in of Dmitry Medvedev as Russia's president, the Kremlin leadership now mirrors one of its most potent symbols — the double-headed eagle. Standing next to the new president during a ceremony Wednesday in a gilded Kremlin hall was his predecessor, Vladimir Putin, the man who nurtured Medvedev's rise to power and who will now be his prime minister. The world waits to see whether the two can jointly rule this sprawling country, or whether, like the Byzantine crest, they will gaze in opposite directions.

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