специальный советник Президента(i.e. a high-level staff member who will help oversee the Presidential Administration's top initiatives and will work across agency lines to push the president's agenda; контекстуальный перевод; англ. цитата – из статьи в газете Los Angeles Times Alex_Odeychuk)
выборы президента(Observers have expressed increasing frustration about the political uncertainty resulting from the fact that both Putin and President Dmitry Medvedev have left open who will run in the presidential vote next March. TMT Alexander Demidov)