Who is Mister Medvedev?
May 27, 2009
Irina Pavlova
Grani.ru
Translated from the Russian by Other Russia
Plenty has been said and written about the recent anniversary of Dmitri Medvedev’s presidency. The apologists sing their praises for the appearance of a tandem, seeing in it the signs of a new style of Russian politics and the seed of a future separation of powers. The critics, both in Russia and the West, conversely lend the heaviest meaning to any hints of division in the tandem, still hoping that Medvedev will become a monocratic leader and start to modernize the country (although truth be told, the patriot-defenders see modernization in one way, and the liberals in another). “The process of political modernization of the Russian government”, writes one author of the Yezhednevny Zhurnal [online newspaper], “needs a leader. Will President Medvedev have enough courage, political will and public liability to have a clear break from the corrupt bureaucracy? In many ways, Russia’s future depends on it.”
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