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Medvedev or Putin?
Dmitry Medvedev should remain President 16 (36.4%)
Vladimir Putin should become President 28 (63.6%)
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Russia's Fate is in Your Hands
Topic Started: May 17 2009, 02:41 PM (708 Views)
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This is something I've been thinking about for a while now, and I really just can't decide what I want to do. So, I'm throwing it up in the air for you guys to decide.

Dmitry Medvedev has been Russia's President for just over a year now, and is fairly popular, but not nearly on the levels that Putin was. However, he's addressed some very major issues with great leadership, including oil debates with neighbors and the EU, the Georgian situation, and the first budget to not have a surplus since 1991. He's been weathered and performed well, but is he what Russia needs?

Your decision. Should Medvedev step down as President, allowing Putin to step back into the hot seat?
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Putin is Russia.

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Putin, Putin, Putin!
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I watched them strap him into the seat and shut the door. He might of looked a bit nervous about it but that was about all. I really believe that he knew he was going to be in hell in fifteen minutes. I believe that. And I've thought about that a lot. He was not hard to talk to. Called me Sheriff. But I didn't know what to say to him. What do you say to a man that by his own admission he has no soul? Why would you say anything? I've thought about it a good deal.
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Medvedev :(
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Putting Putin back in power will immediately have half the world cry 'undemocratic.' Irrational, sure, but it'll galvanize public opinion to an extent. Especially in Georgia.
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What I would be interested in seeing is a little power struggle. Putin is the superman of Russia I get that however lets not ignore the fact that Medvedev will be building his own reputation and his own power base within the government. He does have until 2014 before he needs to stand again.
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That's my premise if this vote goes for Putin. I'm planning to have Putin undercut Medvedev using the legislature, then have Medvedev pretty much forced to resign. Also, since Putin is PM, he can become President constitutionally, and serve another term thereafter.
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I'm a Medvedev fan, let's see a reformed Russia :)
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Putin already runs Russia, so Putin for President peoples!
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I would like to see something better then Putin just retaking the Premiership; Russia's Constitutional Court - sort of like US's Supreme Court, but different, heh - has its top position open in 2012 so couldn't Putin go there, or Medevedev [sic] instead of doing their awkward dance right now.
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I watched them strap him into the seat and shut the door. He might of looked a bit nervous about it but that was about all. I really believe that he knew he was going to be in hell in fifteen minutes. I believe that. And I've thought about that a lot. He was not hard to talk to. Called me Sheriff. But I didn't know what to say to him. What do you say to a man that by his own admission he has no soul? Why would you say anything? I've thought about it a good deal.
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Putin can actually impeach the Premier as he wishes.
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,17 May 2009 15.43.02] I would like to see something better then Putin just retaking the Premiership; Russia's Constitutional Court - sort of like US's Supreme Court, but different, heh - has its top position open in 2012 so couldn't Putin go there, or Medevedev [sic] instead of doing their awkward dance right now.

Putin just going back into the President's office is more simple and more direct.
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I'm shocked at how many people voted Medvedev.

Nonetheless, i would like to see a political crisis in Russia, and have Medvedev fire Putin and watch the drama unfold. There would be a case for a legitimate coup.
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There's no need for Medvedev to step down, unless something happened to him.
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Do the traditional Russian thing and have him poisoned...mysteriously.
Him = Medvedev
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^^^

Yea, people will definatley believe that one. "Dmitri Medvedev Poisoned! Putin returns to Presidency, wait, wha..." :o
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Keep the status-quo.
We all know Putin really runs the show, and Medvedev is just the friendly public face of Russia to basically shut up the cries of "undemocratic" and "Russia is becoming authoritarian".
Perhaps do a character rp of how it takes it's toll on Medvedev.
There really wont be a power struggle in Russia with these two holding the top two positions, it's just western media hoping.
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I can kill Medvedev in Turkmenabat for you ;)
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Fuck Putin. Keep Medvedev or face the might of the Romanian Military! :rolleyes:
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,18 May 2009 15.24.52] Fuck Putin. Keep Medvedev or face the might of the Romanian Military! :rolleyes:

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,17 May 2009 14.47.58] Putin is Russia.

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We have 42 members?
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Don't you update the map? There are like 70 countries highlighted.
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,21 May 2009 02.45.35] We have 42 members?

Christ... It's no small miracle that the board has survived this long with only you and Dax as administrators, let alone the fact that you guys removed the global moderators.
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Awesome.

Wish we had one of those forums in which you could see how many times individual members have voted in polls, that ways we can keep track of our forum lurkers.
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I watched them strap him into the seat and shut the door. He might of looked a bit nervous about it but that was about all. I really believe that he knew he was going to be in hell in fifteen minutes. I believe that. And I've thought about that a lot. He was not hard to talk to. Called me Sheriff. But I didn't know what to say to him. What do you say to a man that by his own admission he has no soul? Why would you say anything? I've thought about it a good deal.
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Vladamir as he is what a country like Russia still needs.
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,21 May 2009 09.32.39] Don't you update the map? There are like 70 countries highlighted.

Schwer, this proves you're only goal is to take me down and criticize me. Very borderline flaming.
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Putin would've been a better President if he wasn't surrounded with Yeltsin's old cronies for a good half decade.

Yeltsin and his ilk were just Oligarchs trying to get rich, and they still are. Putin owes his power to that drunk and the rich kids, as much as Putin probably doesn't like it. It'll be interesting to see what direction Medvedev takes over the next few years with an unshackled Putin at the helm. This leads me to wonder whether Putin is much of a leader or a thief (Yeltsin?).

Part of me thinks thief because he decorated an intelligence officer who stole from the Oil-For-Food Program with Iraq and transferred the money to his Presidency (allegedly).

Putin's not really all he's cracked up to be. He was a failure at the KGB, never warranting a stint at one of the abroad residencies in one of Russia's main targets (in order of importance: USA, NATO, China) or apparently a significant role in internal operations. Instead, the hallmark of his KGB stint was East Germany, not exactly vital internal security and pretty far from Russian concerns abroad.
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,21 May 2009 09.32.39] Don't you update the map? There are like 70 countries highlighted.

Schwer, this proves you're only goal is to take me down and criticize me. Very borderline flaming.

Only you, Sel, would somehow perceive that as an insult.
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My comparative government professor insisted that Russia was controlled by the Mob. And the Mob was way more complex than the Mob.
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Wait what? That makes zero sense.
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