Veteran leader quits as Kremlin shakes up regions

2010/01/22 10:46:21 @Reuters: World News

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin announced on Friday that a powerful regional leader would step down as part of a bid by President Dmitry Medvedev to replace veteran Russian leaders with a new generation of politicians. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=2pCqY0yqSNE:BqAhReVtdNI:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=2pCqY0yqSNE:BqAhReVtdNI:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=2pCqY0yqSNE:BqAhReVtdNI:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=2pCqY0yqSNE:BqAhReVtdNI:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=2pCqY0yqSNE:BqAhReVtdNI:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/2pCqY0yqSNE" height="1" width="1"/
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