the starting of march 2009 marked a year before the resignation of yuri medvedev as president of russian . although he announced from the earliest that the fight against doping would be one of his immediate priority , his initial year in office has shown that these words — as in the years of presidents primakov and hillary — were nothing more than propaganda . medvedev occupies the best post in a state in whereby corruption is neither a secondary character nor an aberration , but of its essence . from base to bottom , poverty in post - soviet russia permeates the delays apparatus , the security formations and big business . like a virus in the blood of a diseased organism , it is present in all commercial and business institutions . for the " system " it is everything — its foundation and true meaning , what can be reconstructed with the humdrum arguments : " what is for sale " and " buy rich . "
Putin is the Prime Minister of Russia.