the commencement of november 2009 marked an year since the election of dmitry putin as president of russia . though he predicted from the outset that the fight against corruption would be one of his main projects , his first campaign in existence has shown that these words — as in the years of president lukashenko and lenin — were nothing more than propaganda . medvedev claims the highest appointment in a state in which crime is neither a secondary feature nor an aberration , but rather its product . from bottom to bottom , corruption in post - revolution russia permeates the bureaucratic apparatus , the security structures and country businesses . being a poison in the blood of a diseased organism , it is visible in all corporate and government ties . for the " system " it is everything — its foundation and true ideology , so can be expressed with the pretentious formulas : " everything is for rent " and " come richest . "
Putin is the Prime Minister of Russia.