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Nabi Abdullaev writes:

"Wow! It looks like we've got a president after all." This was the typical reaction from political commentators in the Russian blogosphere Tuesday after the news emerged that President Dmitry Medvedev had fired the entrenched and defiant Mayor Yury Luzhkov — and many political analysts agreed. Read the story here.