Putin nominates Medvedev for PM role

The lower house of parliament’s speaker Sergei Naryshkin said Monday that Putin submitted the bill shortly after his inauguration for a third Kremlin term.

Putin named Medvedev as his chosen prime minister, before winning the March 4 presidential vote. The nomination is expected to be approved by the house on Tuesday.

This comes as opposition groups staged a protest on Sunday in Moscow against Putin’s return to the Kremlin.

Protesters are angry that Putin is extending his already 12-year hold on power for six more years saying it will stifle political and economic reforms in the country.

According to the media reports, some 400 people, including opposition leaders, were arrested during the Sunday protest.

Medvedev has served as first deputy prime minister from 2005 to 2008 and as president from 2008 to 2012. He was the third and youngest Russian head of state since the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s.

Putin, 59, has served as president for two consecutive terms from 2000 to 2008 and worked as the country’s prime minister from 2008 to 2012.

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