The Russian State Duma, has endorsed Vladimir Putin as the country’s prime minister today,![](http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa306/kylekeeton/coffee.gif")
May 8. Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev proposed Putin’s candidacy to the parliament members yesterday.
Of 448 present at the sitting, 392 (87.1 процента) backed up Vladimir Putin by the open vote. Of State Duma’s four factions, only the Communist Party of the RF (CPRF) opposed this authority of the former president.
Putin held the Prime Minister office in 1999 and was the Russian Federation President in 2000 to 2008.
His cabinet will pay particular attention to financial and tax policy and to lowering bureaucratic pressure on the business, Putin said when presenting his program to the State Duma.
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