Re: Putin's gambit

On Fri, 9 May 2008 02:42:58 -0700 (PDT), MTRP™ <Mir.Topolski@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:

>martin wrote:
>> A while back I predicted that Putin will become party boss, just like
>> the good old days. Now with Putin in control of the duma as PM, expect
>> in about 6 months the duma will impeach and remove Medvedev for
>> incompetence, clearing the way for Putin to run for the presidency
>> again.
>
>lol(ing)@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Just about everybody predicted that the new PM
>Putin will accept the leader****p in the strongest party in the
>parliament - it's a norm all over the world. 

How about coming up with even one example of this preposterous
scenario.

>But thus far it's
>nobody's (not even Putin's) guess whether he'll run for the next
>presidency. More insightful observers wrote that right now he just
>wanna see whether Medvedev is strong enough to continue Putin's
>policy, possibly protecting him from diverse unfriendly influences a/o
>domestic factions, otherrwise. But if the new Prez proves his strong
>leader****p, then Putin would gladly retire from politics (... to
>finally marry Alina Kabaeva! - so sez another SCB prophet Henry :-) ).

As todays's FT's article 'Putin puts Medvedev on sidelines' sattes -
"Analysts compared his performance to the state of the nation address
he previously delivered as president -around this time last year.'
(referring to his parliamentary acceptance speech). Perhaps he doesn't
realise he isn't president any more. When the reality hits I think
I'll go with Martin's prognosis.