The New Economic School, which he heads, is the leading school of economics in Russia and remarkably among the best in Europe.

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Putin would run for president under United Russia, a party in which he heads, and Medvedev would likely become the prime minister.

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The DUP which he heads is entirely Protestant and deeply fundamentalist, and the once potent Robinson brand is now reckoned electorally damaged goods.

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