RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Jan. 10, 2008
TODAY: 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 visit “that 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”.