Outgoing Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, looks on at the start of an inauguration ceremony for president-elect Dmitry Medvedev, background center, in Moscow's Kremlin, 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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