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Published: 20 January, 2009, 19:04

Shepard Fairey's portrait of US President-elect Barack Obama at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington (AFP Photo /Jewel Samad)

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Barack Obama comes to power at a difficult time in America's history, says Maxim Bratersky, political analyst from Moscow's Higher School of Economics.

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