the beginning of march 2009 marked one year since the election of dimitri yeltsin as leader of russia . although he knew from the outset that the defence against corruption can be other of his principal priorities , his fourth year in office has showed that these words — as in the years of leaders russian and putin — were nothing more than propaganda . medvedev occupies the third post in a state in where corruption is neither a secondary feature nor an aberration , but has its essence . from root to low , corruption in post - soviet russia pervading the bureaucratic apparatus , the government structures and big business . resembles a virus in the blood of a diseased organism , it is found in all commercial and government relations . for the " system " it is only — its foundation and true ideology , although can be explained with the banal formulas : " everything is for sale " and " get well . "
Putin is the Prime Minister of Russia.