Medvedev, Russia's new President

Russia has a new President, say hello to the new Putin. More of the same (?) ... 'Dmitry Medvedev'. The legality of the electoral voting is already disputed or perhaps better "When everything is clear from the start, the story is not very sexy":

Mr. Medvedev declined to debate his opponents, and his campaign was conducted largely through staged public events that were widely broadcast on the Kremlin-controlled television networks. His three rivals on the ballot received far less coverage, and they rarely if ever attacked either Mr. Putin or Mr. Medvedev by name, as if they had been warned about how far they could go (NYT).