Is puppet president to lead Russia?

Updated on 28 February 2008

By Nick Paton Walsh

With three days to Russia's presidential polls, Putin is praising his chosen candidate, who's expected to be the nation's new leader.

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But many fear this successor Dmitry Medvedev, will be merely a puppet president.

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