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Published October 12, 2009, 12:00 AM

Putin


Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin places his election ballot into the scanner at a polling station during municipal elections in Moscow on Sunday, Oct. 11, 2009. Russian media report that polls are open in municipal and local elections across the country, including Chechnya, Ingushetia and other violence-plagued regions of the Caucasus.(AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)
Read the article: Pro-Kremlin party sweeps Moscow elections