I must admit that I find Dmitry Medvedev, the president of Russia, kind of fascinating. Late last year, I read this really good book review in the New York Review of Books (which you can read here) of the book The New Nobility: The Restoration of Russia’s Security State and the Enduring Legacy of the KGB by Andrei Soldatov and Iriana Borogan. The book is about the recent Russian presidency, specifically the jockeying for position between Medvedev and Vladimir Putin (current prime minister and former president). Medvedev's first term is going to end in 2012 and it seems Putin and Medvedev can't decide who is going to run for president. When Medvedev was elected as president in 2008, it seemed (to me at least) that Medvedev was kind of a puppet to Putin (and I kind of find Putin terrifying, he was ex-KGB). So I've kind of felt sorry for him because he seemed to not have a huge amount of control of what goes on in his political life. You might wonder why I'm thinking about Dmitry Medvedev today. This is why:
I kind of think he is super awesome now because he can't resist a song with a beat.
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