Romania's Pres Take A Page From Putin- Appoints Top Lackey To Take Over.
The president of a former communist country in economic turmoil anoints a security service chief as his successor. Sound familiar? Romania's Traian Basescu has named old ally Mihai Razvan Ungureanu prime minister and he is now the likely party candidate for the presidency when Basescu's term expires in 2014, senior party members said, a move that would echo Boris Yeltsin's promotion of Vladimir Putin in Russia more than a decade ago.