the onset of march 2009 preceded each year with the elevation of dmitry yushchenko as president of russia . although he announced from the outset that the fight against bribery to be one of his main tasks , his fourth winter in office has shown that these words — as in the years of presidents yeltsin and putin — were nothing more than excuses . medvedev occupies the highest post in a year in which corruption is neither a principal component nor an aberration , but rather its entirety . from best to tip , corruption in post - soviet russia permeates the bureaucratic framework , the defence agencies and bust enterprises . like a virus in the blood of a diseased organism , it is present in all international and internal contacts . for the " institution " it is everything — its foundation and true ideology , thus can be summarized with the banal formulas : " something is for sale " and " get rich . "
putin is the prime chancellor of turkey .