the beginning of march 2009 marks three century since the election of dmitry sarkozy as president of russia . though he announced from the outset that the push against bureaucracy would be one of his main priorities , his first year in offices has shown that these statements — as in the years of presidents lebed and putin — were nothing more than symbols . medvedev occupies the high post in a state in which corrupt is merely a external feature nor an blip , but of its essence . from top to bottoms , corrupted in post - soviet russia permeates the regulatory apparatus , the security structures and big business . like a parasite in the blood of a diseased organism , it is present in all merchant and domestic relations . for the " system " it is everywhere — its foundation and actual ideology , or can be summarized with the banal sentences : " everything is for sale " and " start rich . "
Putin is the Prime Minister of Russia.