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Medvedev to be sworn in as President today
RBC, 07.05.2008, Moscow 11:27:13.Dmitry Medvedev's inauguration as Russian President will take place today. He will become Russia's third leader, to succeed his predecessors Boris Yeltsin (elected as President of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in 19991 and re-elected as President of the Russian Federation in 1996) and Vladimir Putin (elected as the country's leader in 2000 and 2004). Medvedev won a presidential election held on March 2, 2008, mustering 70.28 percent of the vote in the first round. The inauguration ceremony is taking place on the day of the expiry of Vladimir Putin's second presidential term. It will be for the first time that an incumbent President will hand over the authority to a new national leader while still in office. Boris Yeltsin resigned as President before the end of his term.
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