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The job swap between Vladimir Putin and Dmitri Medvedev helped trigger recent street protests in Moscow
Olga Maltseva
Opposition activists march in Saint-Petersburg on Sunday. The make up of Vladimir Putin's government had been kept under wraps for two weeks in an unusual departure from the earlier practice of instant appointments.