January 10, 2008 By Citizen M

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Jan. 10, 2008

100108.jpgTODAY: Medvedev goes “campaigning”; Putin appoints controversial new NATO envoy; Zubkov to set up gambling zone; Nashi falling afoul of the law; British Council defy orders as promised; disagreements in the UN. First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev met with the family of the 100,000th child born in Moscow in 2007 in a visitthat had all the trappings of a campaign event.” Medvedev has reportedly begun signing up governors to campaign for him in their regions. Opposition candidates have called the move “a blatant abuse of Kremlin powers for electoral purposes”.