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Did Putin just register his 2012 campaign website?

Could the prime minister have just tipped his hand? The online database of state register Reg.ru shows that the Federal Bodyguard Service in late August registered two Cyrillic-script addresses, Putin-2012.rf and Putin2012.rf. The agency, which is responsible for protecting top officials, did not register a similar address with the name of President Dmitry Medvedev. There ...

By , a former associate editor at Foreign Policy.
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Could the prime minister have just tipped his hand?

Could the prime minister have just tipped his hand?

The online database of state register Reg.ru shows that the Federal Bodyguard Service in late August registered two Cyrillic-script addresses, Putin-2012.rf and Putin2012.rf.

The agency, which is responsible for protecting top officials, did not register a similar address with the name of President Dmitry Medvedev.

There doesn’t seem to be any activity yet on either site.

Joshua Keating was an associate editor at Foreign Policy. Twitter: @joshuakeating

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