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Vladimir putin has aloud for there to be one non-putin thing in russian government. and it is this guy. the guy with his back to us there doing the sort of chicken wing dance. his name is dimitry medvedev. and at one level it s a little weird that putin has been in charge in russia for 17 straight years because there are supposedly term limits on the russian presidency. the way he s gotten around that is that he has ping-ponged back and forth between being russian president or russian prime minister. he keeps going back and forth between those two offices and so you need somebody else to do that with, right? as he has pinged back and forth between prime minister and president and back again, the guy who s held the other office for him is mr. chicken wings here, dimitry medvedev. he s the guy putin has allowed to hold the other job so putin can stay in power. and putin is always running everything, don t get me wrong. but sometimes he s running everything as president while dimitry is ....
He s the guy putin has allowed to hold the other job so putin can stay in power. and putin is always running everything, don t get me wrong. but sometimes he s running everything as president while dimitry is prime minister and sometimes he s running everything as prime minister while dimitry is president. it s cute. and dimitry medvedev is sort of seen addss riddiciculous in rus politics, he s seen as a pet. but he s in a vaunted place. he s the head of putin s political party called united russia. he s the only human being vladimir putin has allowed to hold any meaningful title in that country for years. medvedev started off as putin s chief of staff 14 years ago and putin has kept him basically as his adjunct in office ever since and now look at this. this is the video, right, by the opposition guy, alexei navalny, that is the video he posted today. but what this is, this is alexei ....