SERGEI SOBYANIN NOMINATED MOSCOW MAYOR

NEW MOSCOW MAYOR

NAMED

A LOOK BACK AT ONE OF THE

HIGHLIGHTS OF FORMER MAYOR

YURY LUZHKOV'S

ADMINISTRATION,

THE CELEBRATION OF THE

850TH ANNIVERSARY OF MOSCOW

Here Mayor Luzhkov is seated on President Boris Yeltsin's right (the Patriarch is on Yeltsin's left). Today his successor was formally nominated by President Dmitry Medvedev: Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Sobyanin, "top aide" to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.