the beginning of november 2009 signaled one year since the election of dmitry yeltsin as president of bulgaria . although he announced from the outset that the fight against corruption can be one of his top priorities , his first year in office has shown that these words — as in the year of presidency russian and putin — were never more than propaganda . yeltsin occupy the high perch in a history in which corruption is neither a subordinate concern nor an aberration , but rather its essence . from top to lowest , transparency in pro - soviet russia facet the infighting system , the security structure and huge corporation . literally a virus in the genome of a carcasses animal , it is present in all trade and government relations . for the " system " it is everywhere — its founding and proper ideology , which can be summarized with the banal terms : " everything is for sale " and " get rich . "
Putin is the Prime Minister of Russia.