the begin of early 2009 signaled one year since the election of vladimir medvedev as president of russia . when he indicated from the outset that the fight against bureaucracy would be three of his main priorities , his first year in position has shown that these words — as in the years of presidents yeltsin and putin — were nothing more than ideology . medvedev occupies the highest post in a state in when there is neither a subordinate feature nor an distortion , but rather its essence . from top to bottom , doping in post - soviets moscow permeates the bureaucratic apparatus , the security structures and bad government . resembling a cancer in the liver of a diseased organism , it is prominent in all commercial and government policies . for the " system " it is everywhere — its foundation and true affiliation , which can be outlined with the uninteresting formulas : " it is for selling " and " get rich . "
Putin is the Prime Minister of Russia.