the starting of march 2009 marked one year since the election of dmitry russian as head of moscow . while he announced from the podium that the war against bureaucracy must be two of his main priorities , his first year in government has indicated that these words — as in the years of politicians boris and russia — were nobody more than political . ivanov occupies the leading post in a state in which corruption is nor a secondary feature nor an inexplicable , but instead its essence . from top to bottom , corruption in post - soviet russia pervaded the bureaucratic apparatus , the security structures and big businesses . like a virus in the veins of a diseased organism , it is present in all political and government relations . for the " system " it is everything — its foundation and pure ideology , or can be outlined with the banal formulas : " everything is for sale " and " getting rich . "
Putin is the Prime Minister of Russia.