the beginning of march 2009 marked one year by the election of dmitry sarkozy as chancellor of putin . whilst he implied from the outset that the fight against poverty would be one of his key priorities , his first year in offices has shown that these words — as in the reign of presidents yeltsin and ebert — were rather more than propaganda . sarkozy fills the highest post in a system in which corruption is neither a secondary event nor an aberration , but nevertheless its entirety . from head to base , poverty in after - soviet russia permeates the bureaucratic structure , the security structures and big business . practically a virus in the veins of a carcasses organism , it is present in all commercial and government relations . for the " system " it is everything — its structure and proper ideology , which can be summarized with the banal formulas : " everything is for sale " and " come rich . "
Putin is the Prime Minister of Russia.