As Putin hits campaign trail, is Medvedev jealous?
ANALYSIS |
MOSCOW — A dangerously close encounter with a 30-ton grey whale. Dousing fires in the country’s worst ever heatwave. A 2,000- kilometer road trip across remote eastern Siberia.
Even for Russia’s tough-guy Prime Minister Vladimir Putin it was a summer out of the ordinary.
The prime minister’s unprecedented, action-packed 10-day tour of Siberia heralded the start of an election marathon whose winner will likely rule Russia for over a decade, Russian observers and media say.
“A feeling that Vladimir Putin has started an election campaign is getting stronger not by the day — by the hour,” mass-circulation newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets said.
But while Putin was wielding a crossbow on the Pacific Ocean or meeting his match in the shape of a wild bear, President Dmitry Medvedev conspicuously got on with the much more dour business of the presidency with little spectacle.
Source: The Daily Tribune
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