After years micro-managing Russia's emerging democracy, is the Kremlin now ready to ease-off the reigns of power and allow more new political parties to challenge the dominance of the ruling party United Russia?
In an interview http://eng.news.kremlin.ru/video/620 posted on Dmitry Medvedev’s blog, the Russian president claimed that under his leadership elections are now cleaner and more open to smaller political parties.
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