Putin hints at return as president

Report of comments by Russia's Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin to 50 foreign journalists and academics at his holiday residence in Sochi on the Black Sea on the 6 September 2010. Amongst the subjects discussed were the 2012 Presidential Elections in Russia, problems of Russian’s southern Caucasus, regulating the internet, the possibility of a 'common economic space' with Ukraine and the planned Nord Stream and South Stream gas pipelines.

ESO: Background information: Putin fails to dispel doubts over Medvedev http://www.europeansources.info/record/putin-fails-to-dispel-doubts-over-medvedev/

ESO: Background information: After two years in office, Medvedev leaves little hope of 'thaw' http://www.europeansources.info/record/after-two-years-in-office-medvedev-leaves-little-hope-of-thaw/

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