Putin’s Last Week At Office Starts
Posted by xanthis on May 1, 2008
Dmitri Medvedev. The new president to take office on 7 May.
Earlier this year, I wrote a post Men With Magic Scepters In Hand, where I named three four persons being most loyal to the Russian President Vladimir Putin. They were FSB Chief Nikolay Patrushev, the then Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov, 1st Deputy Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev and the CDRPA Chief Alexander Beglov. When Medvedev was named as a candidate of President-elect, I was little surprised because I expected this for Patrushev. Many can ask why I haven’t thought Ivanov fit for this, but that’s a different chemistry. My choice for the new President-elect was Nikolay Patrushev. As an FSB Chief turned to President, he could be as good as Putin. But I think the rise of Medvedev, Putin has let the indication appear that Russia wants nothing stern in near future. After getting elected on March, Medvedev told he will be doing everything required for his country. This was may be to answer a Sky News correspondent who wanted to know what would be the role of Vladimir Putin to President Dmitri Medvedev.
The 1st Deputy Prime Minister has been the choice of Vladimir Putin, whom he will observe from now on as the chief of the United Russia Party. From left: Nikolay Patrushev (Chief of FSB), Dmitri Medvedev (1st Deputy Prime Minister), Sergei Ivanov (Minister of Defense)
So, the countdown now has begun. Vladimir Putin will remain the president of Russian Federation just for next seven days. From then, this is expected to be the start point of a new era of the RPA. The expectation to Medvedev is important because Vladimir Putin however has failed to end up with a considerably good reputation of a gentle president.
The assassination of journalist & human rights activist Anna Politkovskaya, allegedly conceptualized and aided by the Russian Government as well as Vladimir Putin in 2006. This issue could be argued. But the poisoning to death of a Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko in 2007, who was one of investigators of Anna’s murder, let all allegations against Putin reappear with doubled force. Litvinenko was a critic of Putin administration claiming Putin is turning Russia into a police state. Three weeks before dying, Litvinenko was poisoned by a former KGB agent Andrei Lugovoi. That doesn’t say that the Russian authority is responsible for the poisoning because Lugovoi was ‘once’ KGB. But later when Scotland Yard sent request for the cooperation of Russia to confirm their investigation efforts on Lugovoi, Russia formally declined that request due to barriers of Russian constituency. At that time, Putin took a little bit on British authority by saying, “It’s not our constitution that should be changed, it’s their brain.” Ultimately, the assassination of Anna Politkovskaya, Alexander Litvinenko, and the allegations on Putin’s close guy as Andrei Lugovoi, led the matter to be a scandalous flap, which ultimately left Andrei Lugovoi as one of the villains. Lugovoi receives unquestionable protection from the Russian authority as well as Putin administration from the most wanted list of British Security authority.
From British point of view, this whole matter was very suspicious and may be Russian authority is directly & indirectly responsible for these multiple murders & attempts by poisoning. From Russian point of view, especially considering statements & demonstrations of Nashi, British authority has engineered the murders of several Russian citizens to malign the reputation of Putin administration. But later, two journalists of British Daily Mail Stephen Wright and David Williams, Alexander Litvinenko was an MI6 agent under direct supervision of MI6/SIS Chief Sir John Scarlett. According to ‘unnamed intelligence & political sources”, they claimed Litvinenko received £2000 per month & was directly recruited by Director Scarlett.
Considering the retrospect, Dmitri Medvedev sounds much like a choice to go ahead with more legitimacy than Russian people experienced in Putin era. Russia is always found to be ran be a unclear parallel government formed by the security community of the country. Nikolay Patrushev could be a good leader to this kind of formation. But, Medvedev, in my views, is a more academic figure than to lead a country like Russia which has been led by Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev, Alexei Kosygin as well as Vladimir Putin. What did he mean by “will be doing everything required for his country”, will be visible after seven days from now.
Read More:
Short biography of Vladimir Putin
Short biography of Dmitri Medvedev
Assassination of Anna Politkovskaya
Mysterious Death of Alexander Litvinenko
