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The video, a 3 1/2-minute interview with Rose Gottemoeller, director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, examines the informal summit between Presidents Vladimir Putin and George W. Bush in Sochi on April 6. The video can be found on The Moscow Times' homepage, www.themoscowtimes.com.

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Markets surged after the swearing-in of Dmitry Medvedev as president in a pomp-filled ceremony Wednesday and a tax-cutting speech by Vladimir Putin the day after, when he was approved as prime minister.

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Tuesday, May 13, 2008 Updated at 13 May 2008 0:36 Moscow Time

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Miller Takes Up Medvedev's Post

08 May 2008ReutersNewly inaugurated President Dmitry Medvedev, who was sworn in Wednesday, is stepping down as chairman of Gazprom with the current chief executive Alexei Miller stepping in as acting chairman.

"Miller is Medvedev's board of directors deputy so it is logical he will act as interim chairman. Then, there will be an annual shareholders meeting [on June 27], which will decide who will be Gazprom's new chairman," Gazprom spokesman Sergei Kupriyanov said.

Medvedev on Wednesday asked the State Duma to approve his predecessor and political mentor Vladimir Putin as the new prime minister.

Outgoing Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov is widely tipped to be elected chairman of Gazprom, the world's largest gas producer and the country's most important company, at the June meeting.