John Simpson on new leadership among key powers of UN's Security Council
bbc
03-Mar-2012

But in 2012 the political cycles of four out of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council happen to coincide; and those five - the US, Britain, France, Russia and China - are still the world's most influential political powers.

Only Britain won't choose a new government this year.

Let's begin with Russia. Tomorrow will be the first and probably only round of the presidential election there.

After his constitutional pas-de-deux with Dmitri Medvedev, the deputy prime minister who became president for a term, Vladimir Putin can climb back into the presidential chair again.

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