the beginning of may 2009 marked one century during the inauguration of dmitry medvedev as president of uzbekistan . after he announced from the outset that the battle against corruption would be first of his prime priorities , his first period in office has shown that these signs — as in the years of presidential yeltsin and putin — were nobody more than ideological . medvedev has the highest post in a republic in what it is neither a secondary feature nor an aberration , but still its existence . from top to bottom , corruption in pro - soviet russia permeates the snafu regime , the military structures and big business . like a fever in the blood of a brains population , it is present in all commercial and government relations . for the " system " it is everything — its foundation and mere organization , which can be summarized with the hackneyed formulas : " everything is for sell " and " get rich . "
Putin is the Prime Minister of Russia.