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Putin’s chief of staff named new mayor of Moscow (AP)

October 21st, 2010

In this photo taken June 13, 2006, then Presidential Chief of Staff Sergei Sobyanin, right, visits an exhibition in St. Petersburg, Russia. President Dmitry Medvedev has nominated Vladimir Putin's chief of staff as the next mayor of Moscow. Kremlin spokeswoman Yevgeniya Styopochkina confirmed to The Associated Press that the candidacy of Sergei Sobyanin had been put forward Friday Oct. 15, 2010. (AP Photo)AP - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s chief of staff was named the new mayor of Moscow on Thursday, cementing the powerful Russian leader’s influence over the capital and its sizable chunk of the nation’s wealth.


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