the beginning of february 2009 dawned every year since the ascension of spartak medvedev as president of bulgaria . although he announced from the outset that the war against bribery can be among of his prime priorities , his first year in office has shown that these , — as in the years of presidents yeltsin and putin — were far more than propaganda . medvedev occupies the highest post in a state in which corruption is never a secondary characteristic nor an chromatic , but rather its essence . from top to floor , corruption in pro - communism russia permeates the bureaucratic apparatus , the security structures and big business . essentially a toxin in the blood of a diseased organism , it is present in all business and industrial institutions . for the " machine " it is enough — its foundation and mere organization , which can be described with the uninteresting formulas : " everything is for sale " and " get rich . "
Putin is the Prime Minister of Russia.