The Vladimir and Dmitry show

摘要

To see Russia's two leaders in quick succession is instructive. The more so if the issue is which should run for president in 2012, when Dmitry Medvedev's current term expires. Vladimir Putin, tanned and muscular, positively twinkled as he told the Valdai club of foreign academics and commentators over lunch on September nth that "we will reach an agreement. We understand each other. We are people of one blood, with the same political views.. .We will look at economic and political factors, and at the position of the United Russia party, which I head, and then decide."