Yurgens Doubts Putin Will Run for Presidency in 2012

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said he had not yet decided to run for the Russian presidency but noted that Franklin D. Roosevelt had served four terms legally as US president.Speculation is rife over whether Putin or President Dmitry Medvedev will stand in the 2012 polls and Putin pledged that neither he nor the current president would do anything against the Russian constitution."There was an American president -- Roosevelt -- who was elected four times in a row because the law allowed it," Putin told an annual meeting of world experts on Russia known as the Valdai Club.

Expectations intensified Tuesday that Prime Minister Vladimir Putin may run again for the Russian presidency after he drew a surprise comparison with four-term US president Franklin D. Roosevelt.Speculation was rife over whether Putin or President Dmitry Medvedev would stand in the 2012 polls and Putin pledged that neither he nor the current president would do anything against the Russian constitution.

First, it is Merkel's turn, which last week was furious at Cyprus for daring to reject the first flawed Eurogroup plan impairing insured depositors, only to praise it for now... rejecting said plan. To wit: Chancellor Angela Merkel, "as well as the government, is very happy that the troika, the euro group and Cyprus were able to reach an agreement," German government spokesman Steffen Seibert says in Berlin.