Putin should not run in 2012 vote: Medvedev aide

Reuters ^ | 10/22/10 | Reuters

[Sax]

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Prime Minister Vladimir Putin should not stand in Russia's 2012 presidential election so that President Dmitry Medvedev can fulfill his modernization drive, the head of Medvedev's think-tank said on Thursday.

Medvedev and Putin have both hinted that one of them but not both will run in the election, with the winner likely to guide Russia's development over the next 12 years due to the extension of the president's term in office.

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"I am sure he (Putin) can win this election in a breeze. But I am also sure that he should not stand," Yurgens said in an interview published by the Kommersant daily.

[Sax]

Aw come on, they didn't extend the Presidential term for nothing - Putin will be in until 2024.

[Fast Moving Angel]

Wonder if his life insurance is paid up ;-)

[Red Badger]

Stay away from salad bars, comrade................

[Sax]

Yeah, might get a special, yet temporary assignment in the basement of Lubyanka.

[Psalm 144]

Medvedev aide should remain silent: Putin

[Psalm 144]

“Yeah, might get a special, yet temporary assignment in the basement of Lubyanka.”

Soviet interrogation rooms had drains in the floors.

[KarlInOhio]

Depressed Medvedev aide kills self by taking poison, tying himself to a chair, throwing himself out of an eighth story window twice and finally shooting himself in the back of the head with a full magazine from an AK-47.

[Thunder90]

Putin will run again...

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Sax.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin should not stand in Russia's 2012 presidential election so that President Dmitry Medvedev can fulfill his modernization drive

So, on whom do you suppose Putin will pin the murder?

[Cheburashka]

You forgot drowning himself in the frozen river Neva.

[WoofDog123]

they have gone to 12-year terms? Damn.

[rmlew]

This give new meaning to the term “career suicide.”