Sun Rises in East
The BBC reports that water is wet: Medvedev ‘heading for clear win’
Vladimir Putin’s chosen successor, Dmitry Medvedev, is set to win Russia’s presidential election by a wide margin, exit polls indicate.
The state-owned pollster VTsIOM showed Mr Medvedev with 69.6% of the vote.
And early results, with 15% of votes counted, put him on 64.5%. His nearest rival was Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov, on nearly 20%.
I see they are limiting his win to below 70% so that he doesn’t outshine his boss, Vladimir. I feel certain that the pages have already been printed for the newspapers, including the final results.
After being installed Medvedev will discover that to make Russia more “democratic” it is necessary to transfer many of the powers of the presidency to the prime minister who is – Vladimir Putin. There’s something comfortable about knowing exactly what the Soviet …er… Russia will do.
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The vote rigged in Medvedev’s favour? Who’d a thunk it!
Publishing real news is nerve racking. It is much easier to type up what “should happen” and then make it so, than to wait.
*siiiiiggghhhh* I’m sure Condi and company feel all happy now that Russia is becoming all Soviety again. They sure missed the Cold War.
Based on her book, she doesn’t know a lot about the Soviet era either.
Based on her book, she doesn’t know a lot about the Soviet era either.
Is there anything she knows anything about? (other than shopping for shoes and oil corporations I mean). If so, I missed it.
As near as I can tell she was successful as the Chancellor of Stanford University. Her job was, according to people who taught there, property management: room scheduling, office and dorm assignments, that sort of thing. It sounds like she would have been very good heading up the General Services Administration.