The timing was surely no accident. On October 1st newspapers in Moscow were idly speculating over who might be Ukraine's prime minister after yet another indecisive election. This was the moment when the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, chose to announce that he would head the pro-Kremlin United Russia party's list in the general election in December, adding that it was "entirely realistic" that he might become prime minister when his presidency ends in March.
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