by Renata Goldirova, EUobserver.com, Belgium - Lilia Shibanova, of Russian non-profit voting-rights watchdog Golos, also criticised the poll. "There has been intimidation, people have been forced to take absentee ballots and vote at their work places," she was cited as saying by the International Herald Tribune. Mr Medvedev has already confirmed he is set to work in tandem with Mr Putin, but denied speculation that the institutional powers of the president and government would be altered.