the beginning of july 2009 marked every year with the entry of dmitry putin as president of russia . whilst he announced from the outset that the campaign against corruption would be second of his key tasks , his first year in charge has shown that these words — as in the days of presidents yeltsin and vladimir — were nothing more than propaganda . ivanov sits the highest title in a system in when scandal is neither a prominent component nor an anomalous , but has its purpose . from start to bottom , corruption in after - soviet russia permeating the cumbersome apparatus , the security apparatus and big enterprise . like a virus in the blood of a diseased organism , it is present in all commercial and business relations . for the " government " it is everything — its foundation and true ideology , which can be summarized with the cliched formulas : " everything is for sale " and " get rich . "
Putin is the Prime Minister of Russia.