VLADIMIR PUTIN
ARCHIVE OF THE OFFICIAL SITE
OF THE 2008-2012 PRIME MINISTER
OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
VLADIMIR PUTIN
ARCHIVE OF THE OFFICIAL SITE
OF THE 2008-2012 PRIME MINISTER
OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
VLADIMIR PUTIN
I have always believed that a double-headed vertical power structure is the best of all possible options for Russia, if only because this model lends a new quality to political life.
What does the “Medvedev-Putin tandem” mean? Who of them is the boss? In general, what do you think about these two people?” We have asked students in grades nine to eleven at a Moscow school these questions.
The political tandem is a year old: Dmitry Medvedev was inaugurated as President and Vladimir Putin became the head of Government in May of last year. Ever since then, the future of the tandem has been a key issue. Some believe that it is about to collapse, some think that such a collapse could never happen…
Looking back on President Medvedev’s and Prime Minister Putin’s first year at their respective jobs, Deputy Speaker of the State Duma Oleg Morozov said on Tuesday: “This tandem works, and it is quite a unique phenomenon in politics. The former President, an extremely popular politician, has agreed to become the head of the executive branch under a new President, and thus to assume responsibility for the country not during the best of times, but during a crisis”.
Dmitry Medvedev assumed his presidential duties a year ago. Vlast has asked its readers to reflect on his first year as President.
Vladimir Putin will mark his first year since becoming Russia’s Prime Minister, for the second time. For any other politician a step down the official career ladder would have meant a corresponding loss in power. But the past year has shown that in today’s Russia Putin is more than his job. Putin the Premier wields as much influence as Putin the President. However, the number of problems facing him has increased many times.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with the medal winners of the national Spartakiad for school students yesterday. He promised to preserve the CSKA sports club and answered the question about the relative difficulty of being President of Russia versus being the Prime Minister. With the details of the visit to the Olympic Reserve School is our correspondent ANDRE KOLESNIKOV.
Japan will no longer torment the Russian Prime Minister with talk of the Southern Kuriles.
With five years to go to the Sochi Winter Olympics this is an auspicious time to assess our potential. The country’s leaders regularly inspect the progress of the Olympic infrastructure construction. However, it is still unknown who will represent Russia at the 2014 Olympics.
It was a year ago today that Dmitry Medvedev came into “possession” of three regalia of presidential power – a special copy of the Constitution, the presidential banner, and the presidential badge. These seemingly ordinary and unshakeable symbols appear to have interesting stories behind them: the closest cousin of the presidential banner – the state flag – was first hoisted over the Kremlin upside down, while the Constitution, it now emerges, is no longer an official symbol of the head of state. On the other hand, Mr Medvedev has made the Internet and latest technology a new kind of presidential symbol.
