Who is Russia's new President Mister Medvedev?

Poh Ah Pak SG · 2008-05-10T04:10:17+00:00

If you guys have time....try to look at YouTube for a few Russian news video clips.For instance, RussiaToday (RT). It is an English language Russian channel...

Poh Ah Pak SG

Mr. Limonov on Mr. Medvedev

We have now two presidents in Russia: old one is Mister Putin and a new one, appointed on March 2, Mister Medvedev. That idiocy will be formally ended on May 7, when Mr. Medvedev will be inaugurated in Kremlin’s seat. But nevertheless, for more than two months, Russia was headed by two presidents.

As to Putin’s in his first years of presidency to Mr. Medvedev also could be addressed banal questions: "Who is Mister Medvedev?"

Because Mr. Medvedev is not a political figure, he is a practically unknown bureaucrat, one of a huge crowd of bureaucrats surrounding Putin.

As Putin himself is a small bureaucrat, one from a huge crowd of "chinovniks" surrounding Yeltsin. If the elected president had been named Zyuganov or Yavlinski or Kasparov or even Limonov, nobody in Russia would have asked a question: "Who is that man?" Because these are political leaders, actors in Russian political play.

They are known to general population. Mr. Medvedev, on the contrary, is not known, or wasn’t known, at all. Mr. Medvedev is not a leader of political party, he is not a member of political party, so he is not a political man. We can guess that he is a member of Putin’s circle of close friends, a member of some inner circle. If he is to be appointed to the post of guarding of their interests, we are guessing that Mr. Medvedev is trusted by Mr. Putin’s group and Mr. Putin himself.

So the answer to the question of "Who is Mister Medvedev?" is shamelessly simple. He is a...

http://www.exile.ru/articles/detail.php?ARTICLE_ID

Parliament approves Putin as prime minister

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20080508/106914463.html

President Medvedev's economic challenges

http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20080507/106805663.html

The enthronement of Dmitry Medvedev

http://english.pravda.ru/russia/kremlin/105107-0/

Shotgun SG

Medvedev Professor to President. http://www.hindu.com/2008/05/09/stories/2008050956482000.htm

BBC's Profile of Dmitry Medvedev

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7136556.stm

Without a doubt, Medvedev will be under Putin's influence when it comes to policy making. Russia still has Putin in charge... so to speak.

Poh Ah Pak SG

I cannot help but feel that the transfer of power in Singapore is exactly the same as in Russia.

There are no real political leaders in Singapore.

That is why there is no real support for PAP among the public.

tai gok nang SG

Singapore is different from Russia.

In the wake of the US threat, Russia needs Putin.

Kuali Baba SG

Putin may be good for Russia, but he isn't for the rest of world- just ask the people in Eastern Europe. Bush is also a tosser however.

Poh Ah Pak SG

There used to be a balance of power between USA and Soviet Union.

After the collapse of the USSR in 1991, USA became the global hegemon and became cocky and full of itself.

This is the period when the aggressiveness of USA began to increase.

War after war after war.

We are still in this period.

The world needs stronger powers to keep a check on this hostile, unstable and militarily aggressive USA.

But some people cannot see this simple logic.

reyes SG

similar to singapore. just that Russia dont have president mentor.

maybe 2 terms later, russia will create PM mentor,

小白脸 SG

Personally, I support Putin. He has restored the pride for the russians, the economy and what nots from the brink of collapse. Putin also endorse Med and that says alot about Med. The lesser he is known by people, the more powerful he will be in times to come. He's more like the power behind the throne.

小白脸 SG

Kuali Baba SG

If you don't see beyond that, then there's nothing more that I can say.

rokkie SG

anyway,russia is still a big power,he is strong in military ,sports.World is becoming multipolarity

tai gok nang SG

anyway,russia is still a big power,he is strong in military ,sports.World is becoming multipolarity

I agree that Russia remains a big power but its power has deteriorated a lot compared to the USSR days. Since the breakup of USSR, Russia has seen many breakaway republics and Slavic countries defecting to the US camp. Georgia, Ukraine, Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, and Czech. And they are back to check and weaken Russia, their own Slavic cousin. It hit the bottom during Yeltsin.

After the USSR collapse, I thought the world would enter a permanent peace and democracy. I thought that the US represented democracy and freedom. I disregarded some futurists' warning that the US hegomony would be even worse than Cold War.

Now I come to a realization that we need regional powers to keep the US in check.

lotus999 SG

I cannot help but feel that the transfer of power in Singapore is exactly the same as in Russia.

There are no real political leaders in Singapore.

That is why there is no real support for PAP among the public.

'no real support for pap among the public'? are you in a denial mode? pap enjoys very good public though it is diminishing by the days.

we have no political leaders because we have emperor!

btw, what are you trying to say about the political situation in russia? care to elaborate?

rokkie SG

Now I come to a realization that we need regional powers to keep the US in check.

war between human is never ending

rokkie SG

Now I come to a realization that we need regional powers to keep the US in check.

russia is still big in population and territory

googoomuck SG

The problem with Russia is that many Russians are not interested in politics.

Russia is a nation of people who are scared, just like Singaporeans.

Boris Yeltsin brought down communism. Now Russia is a fake democracy under Putin.

rokkie SG

democracy is a good word ,but it's not the food or water we eat every day .Without it ,cannot survive.So may i ask wat is a real democracy?

googoomuck SG

Fair and equal treatment of everyone in an organisation or nation, and their right to take part in making decisions.

rokkie SG

Fair and equal treatment of everyone in an organisation or nation, and their right to take part in making decisions.

organisation tream ppl according to their performance,

ppl get the right to take part in making decisions,but actual it can not function ,so nowaday, ppl elect the representative to represent ppl's interest.So i don't know ppl can take part in making decision to wat extent.Somehow ,wat decision the minister take is out of control.

And a lot of ppl don't care about politics.

googoomuck SG

organisation tream ppl according to their performance,

That's fair

Read more of Sgforum's Speakers' corner. People who elected the government have no one to be their voice in parliament. That's not democracy

And a lot of ppl don't care about politics.

That's so true or maybe they're scared