
Giving cold shoulders? In a rare sign of friction between Russia's ruling duo, President Dmitry Medvedev recently responded, "We'll have a test to see whether we have the same blood type," when asked about rumors that Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was planning a return to the presidency in 2012. If the two men really weren't getting along, you wouldn't know from their carefully stage-managed public image. The two men, and their media handlers, have gone to great lengths over the last two years to demonstrate that they are close friends. Above, then President Putin and presidential candidate Medvedev take a stroll through the forest outside Moscow on Dec. 30, 2007. The photo op was widely used in campaign posters for their United Russia party.
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