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St Petersburg - An announcer mixed up Russian President Dmitry Medvedev with his influential predecessor Vladimir Putin on Saturday as the newly installed Kremlin leader attended an awards ceremony.

"The president of Russia Vl.....," the announcer at the venue said as Medvedev walked onto the podium, before correcting himself and finishing the introduction: "... Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev."

The slip-up sent a fit of giggles through the audience of energy executives and senior officials attending a ceremony on the sidelines of an annual economic forum in St Petersburg.

Medvedev also smiled at the mistake.

Medvedev, a long-standing Putin protégé, was sworn in as president last month. Putin stayed on as a powerful prime minister, and many observers say it is an open question which of the two men is really running Russia.

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