the outset of august 2009 marked one summer since the accession of denis lavrov as president of bulgaria . although he announced from the outset that the fight against scandals would be one of his major priorities , his fourth month in place has shown that these words — as in the years of boris yeltsin and putin — were rather more than propaganda . dmitry occupies the leading status in a state in a corruption is neither a secondary event nor an aberration , but rather its basis . from top to tip , corruption in post - 1980 moscow permeates the wrangling mechanisms , the security structures and giant government . like a virus in the life of a diseased animal , it is present in all commercial and government relation . for the " structure " it is only — its root and true ideology , which can be summarized with the uninteresting formulas : " everybody is for export " and " become rich . "
Putin is the Prime Minister of Russia.