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Minister and chairman of oil giant gazprom, 42-year-old dimitri medvedev for president. >> medvedev is like putin a lawyer by training. he's a member of the core group for sure. he's loyal to a tee. >> as president medvedev appointed putin his prime minister. >> it's really quite extraordinary. the authoritarian leader gives up the presidency but you know behind the scenes putin is pulling most of the strings. >> later that year the united states also had a new president, barack obama, who announced a reset with russia as an effort to improve relations between the two countries. president obam...

Constitutionally barred from serving a third consecutive term. for the upcoming 2008 election. he endorsed his deputy prime minister and chairman of oil giant gazprom. 42-year-old dmitri medvedev for president. >> medvedev is like putin, a lawyer. by training. he's a member of the core group for sure. he's loyal to a tee. >> as president, medvedev appointed putin his prime minister. >> it's quite a story there, the authoritarian leader gives up the presidency, but you know behind the scenes putin is pulling most of the strings. >> later that year the united states also had a new president. bar...

Term. for the upcoming 2008 election he endorsed his deputy prime minister and chairman of oil giant for president. >> he is like putin, a lawyer by training. he's a member of the core group for sure. he's loyal to a tee. >> as president he appointed putin his prime minister. >> it's really quite extraordinary. the authoritarian leader gives up the presidency but you know behind the scenes putin is pulling most of the strings. >> later that year the united states also had a new president, barack obama, who announced a reset with russia as an effort to improve relations between the two countrie...

>> putin expounded on his theory of american power and said look you guys do this and you make things worse off and he was focused on iraq. he was surprised when president obama agreed with him in that moment i think that putin thought well maybe obama is different. >> in the wake of the meetings, there are agreements forged between the medvedev and obama administrations, including a reduction in nuclear arms. >> it was quite clear that this was only being done with putin's approval. you know, he was giving some rope here. he was giving some slack. >> while putin pulled strings behind the scen...