John Thornhill, the Financial Times news editor, Neil Buckley, East European news editor, and Charles Clover, Moscow bureau chief, interviewed Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian president, at the St Petersburg Economic Forum on June 18. Financial TimesMedvedev Rules Out Poll Tussle With Putin -- Financial Times
Dmitry Medvedev has made clear he would like a second term as Russian president but said he and prime minister Vladimir Putin would not run against each other next year.
In a Financial Times interview, the president also hinted that if he won a second term, he would introduce a more competitive political system – essential to the realisation of his vision for Russia’s economic modernisation. “Political competition is necessary for the development of the economy,” he said.
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