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To: ChinuSFO who wrote (52569)	3/25/2009 12:00:58 PM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Medvedev Makes His Move - from VFC - thanks for posting that. I've not been to FP for a few days. interesting. I've noted a couple of paras from it that I think are key. I think he is tempermentally similar to Obama and faces an even more corrupt and dangerous situation. If he can stay alive and find the backing of the people, it is possible he offers a similar hope. My russian friend is, naturally, cynical on the subject, but I've always sensed something in the man... that there is at least the possibility. it would be a wonderful thing. this from it - Medvedev, a lawyer by training and instinct, offers perhaps the only realistic hope of turning Russia around, but he can't operate freely while Putin is still effectively in charge. Seemingly aware of this, Medvedev has, in recent weeks, taken steps to distance himself from his mentor and might be setting the stage to force him out of government. and this - The stylistic gap is also expanding. Medvedev has made official statements on the assassinations of human rights advocates Anna Politkovskaya, Stanislav Markelov, and Anastasia Baburova that differ markedly in tone and substance from Putin's responses. Medvedev strikes a different, less nationalistic, and more tolerant tone than Putin on questions of Islam and national security. These differences are fundamental to each man's character. Putin, after all, is the product of the KGB, the government-sanctioned plutocracy, and the Cold War. Medvedev is the son of the Russian intelligentsia, the legal academy, and the post-Soviet world of global integration and opportunity. Although they have worked closely together for 20 years, they are quite different, and in the context of a political rivalry, have different constituencies.