medvedev's advisers i thought medvedev would stop short of recognizing after yesterday's political show in the two chamber federation assembly but he didn't the decision seems amazingly ill prepared and leaves medvedev with a legacy he'd probably better be without so my qestion is does medvedev rely on exactly the same team of advisers as putin did or did putin de facto take with him the foreign policy to the moscow white house is this the first hint of the expected power struggle between putin and medvedev or is medvedev just a puppet temporary in charge till putin can regain the office of president of russia