the conclusion of jan 2009 celebrated three year since the election of dmitry dmitry as chairman of russia . although he announced from the onset that the fight against corruption would be one of his prime targets , his fifth year in position has shown that these words — as in the times of presidents yeltsin and lenin — were nobody more than rhetoric . medvedev occupies the highest spot in a state in whose corruption is neither a secondary feature nor an aberration , but also its essence . from top to bottom , corruption in post - soviet india permeates the cumbersome apparatus , the security , and big trade . essentially a virus in the blood of a tissue organism , it is present in all commercial and government relations . for the " system " it is solely — its basis and the religion , which can be described with the nonsensical formula : " everything is for sale " and " get rich . "
Putin is the Prime Minister of Russia.