Russian president-elect Dmitry Medvedev, centre, looks on, during an inauguration ceremony in Moscow's Kremlin on Wednesday, May 7, 2008. Dmitry Medvedev was inaugurated as Russia's president on Wednesday, pledging to bolster the country's economic development and civil rights, in what may signal a departure from his predecessor's heavy-handed tactics. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Vladimir Rodionov, Presidential Press Service)

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