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...taste of the paper's editorial outlook, just talk to Dmitri Muratov, its editor in chief. "Putin has created the largest, richest bureaucracy in the world, and the funds have been sucked out of society." Muratov calls the siloviki--the strong-arm factions that make up much of the Defense Ministry, the Interior Ministry, the secret police--a "business, whose only concern is hoarding money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard: Moscow | 3/13/2008 | See Source »

...provides a challenge to Tussaud's. Angela Merkel, elected German Chancellor in 2005, has been sculpted, but her figure is briefly on loan to Berlin. Her predecessor, Gerhard Schroeder, remains by popular demand. John Howard and Vladimir Putin make an unlikely, and dated, duo. Their successors, Kevin Rudd and Dmitri Medvedev, have not yet been commissioned, but are "very much on our radar," says Lovett...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fearful of Waning, Gordon Brown Seeks Waxing | 3/12/2008 | See Source »

...Serbia, itself, Russia capitalized literally, on the standoff over Kosovo. In Belgrade, just a week before he became Russia's President-elect, Dmitri Medvedev supervised Serbia's signing up to a prospective Russian Southern Stream natural gas pipe-line. Serbia also sold to Russia a 51% stake of Naftna Industrija Srbija (NIS), a much prized national oil company for $614 million and the promise of a further investment of $770 million. Russia plans build a major gas storage facility in Serbia, making the country a key base for Russian energy supplies to Europe. This consolidation of ties with Serbia achieves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia Cashes in on Kosovo Fears | 3/8/2008 | See Source »

...Together we can continue the course set by President Putin.' DMITRI MEDVEDEV, newly installed President of Russia, vowing to continue the policies of his predecessor Vladimir Putin. Medvedev won 70% of the vote in the country's heavily criticized March 2 election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 3/6/2008 | See Source »

...December, Vladimir Putin settled Russia's succession question by declaring his support for Dmitri Medvedev, a deputy prime minister and former Putin chief of staff. Soon after, while I and other TIME editors were in Moscow preparing to interview Putin as TIME's Person of the Year, Medvedev returned the favor and announced that he would in turn endorse Putin as Russia's next Prime Minister. A top Kremlin aide told us the news with great excitement. When we dryly suggested that Putin may possibly have had a hand in Medvedev's decision, even this Kremlin loyalist had to laugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Putin Will Still Run Russia | 3/2/2008 | See Source »

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