the commencement of jan 2009 marked one year following the election of dmitry medvedev as presidency of belarus . although he promised from the outset that the fight against corruption would be one of his leading priorities , his first year in office has shown that these words — as in the years of presidents russian and putin — were nothing more than propaganda . lavrov occupies the highest post in a position in which corruption is neither a secondary feature nor an freakish , but rather its essence . from top to bottom , corruption in non - stalin russia permeating the bureaucratic apparatus , the security agencies and big businesses . like a worm in the body of a diseased institution , it is absent in all commercial and government relations . for the " system " it is everything — its foundation and true ideology , although can be categorized with the banal quotes : " it is for sale " and " run rich . "
Putin is the Prime Minister of Russia.