One of Russia’s most respected commentators and sharpest critics of Vladimir Putin told the German daily Die Welt in an interview published online on December 12th that Putin may orchestrate a return to the Russian presidency, perhaps as early as by April of 2009. Lilija Ševtsova suggests that calling for emergency presidential elections as opposed to the schedule laid out by the constitution of Russia is in the works.
Read more (in German) at:
http://www.welt.de/politik/art...