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Seeing double: In a political experiment unique in Russian and world history, Russia has been ruled for the last three years by two men: technocratic lawyer turned businessman turned President Dmitry Medvedev, and KGB veteran turned president turned astonishingly powerful Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Here's a look at how their partnership developed and where it may be heading.
Mikhail Klimentyev/AFP/Getty Images
Joshua E. Keating is an associate editor at Foreign Policy.
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COMETLINEAR
1:08 AM ET
June 20, 2011
Slide 15 is classic.
Great stuff.
XENOPHON
9:10 PM ET
June 20, 2011
Interesting Photos; Weak Narrative
Keating,
Are your captions supposed to be analytical? Be honest: You don't like Russia and there is nothing you would like more than a debilitating rupture between Putin and Medvedev. Why don't you just come out and say it. Somehow, though, I think you will be disappointed in the end. They both know that the US, despite the "reset," seeks to eliminate Russia as an great power and that any feuding between them would only facilitate that repellently neoconservative goal.
JOHNBRAGG
8:26 AM ET
June 21, 2011
Not a big fan of these slideshows
But thought this was the place to float an idea.
Medveyev should run, rather than Putin, for the good of The Firm. Have Putin leave office as PM, as well. That way, if The Firm runs into major difficulties, Putin is Tanned, Rested and Ready to take control and provide at least the appearance of a change. Medveyev will still protect Putin, and Putin will still back Medveyev quietly.
In other words, Putin copies from the Deng Xiaoping playbook.
RYAN_KURTIS
9:19 AM ET
June 21, 2011
Great stuff
Yeah ! Great stuff.
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SOCIALHGH
2:10 PM ET
June 22, 2011
The current situation
I personally think that Russia is doing quite well at the moment and it has successfully managed to not get too much involved in international conflicts.
We all know that since the end of the cold war, they remained a lot less active than they were before but my opinion is that today they are doing the right thing that every "developped" country should do : taking care of its interior affairs, people and problems instead of focusing on external problems that will never do anything good for its citizens except to make them spend more money on taxes... Every country should first take care of their own problems before to get involved in the ones of another nation.... To meditate. I think they also allow to buy hgh online in Russia no ?