"He is not a puppet of Mr. Putin," Vladimir Rasuvajev, the general director of the Center for Economic and Political Studies, a Moscow-based think tank, said Monday in Berlin at a talk on Medvedev's victory. "Medvedev will continue the foreign policy by Mr. Putin, but at the same time, the Russian interior policy will become more liberal." Klaus Mangold, the head of the German Committee on Eastern European Economic Relations who has had close relations with Medvedev for the past 13 years, said he knows Russia's future president as an "extraordinarily competent man, who is very determined and driven by a will to bring about change." Full Article at United Press International