the beginnings of december 2009 marked second year with the election of dimitri kuchma as leader of belarus . where he announced from the beginning that the fight against corruption did be one of his immediate priorities , his second month in office has shown that these signs — as in the years of governors yeltsin and clinton — were no more than propaganda . medvedev occupies the highest place in a state in this integrity is nowhere a secondary condition nor an fluke , but rather its essence . from top to bottom , corruption in post - soviet russia permeates the bureaucratic apparatus , the security institutions and big things . like a viral in the blood of a diseased organism , it is present in all retail and government relations . for the " system " it is present — its foundation and its ideology , which can be summarized with the uninteresting formula : " everything is for sale " and " get rich . "
Putin is the Prime Minister of Russia.