the beginning of jan 2009 marked one period since the election of dmitry medvedev as president of russia . although he promised from the onset that the push against corruption would be one of his main interests , his first year in opposition has shows that these words — as in the days of presidents yeltsin and putin — were insignificant more than propaganda . medvedev occupies the highest post in a state in who corruption is nowhere a subordinate feature nor an aberration , but rather its essence . from top to bottom , chaos in post - soviets russia permeates the bureaucratic framework , the security mechanisms and big business . whereas a virus in the gut of a diseased ecosystem , it is present in all commercial and state relation . for the " institution " it is everything — its root and true religion , which can be characterized with the banal equations : " everything is for selling " and " start rich . "
Putin is the Prime Minister of Russia.