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RUSSIA
RUSSIA: Following the resignation of the gov't earlier today, President Vladimir
Putin has appointed head of the Russian Federal Tax Service, Mikhail Mishustin,
as acting prime minister. 
- Mishustin takes over from Dmitri Medvedev, who, as was announced earlier, will
become Deputy Head of the Security Council. 
- The new PM does not have a significant political power base and is an obscure
choice to lead the caretaker gov't. He has served as head of Russia's tax
service since April 2010. 
- The appointment of a marginal figure, with little in the way of political
ambitions, to the PM's office is one of the clearer signals Putin could have
sent that he intends to take over as PM, or another senior parliamentary office,
at the end of his presidential term. 

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