D.S. steps in to play squash
It's too early to talk about this, let's wait for the party congress, Dmitry Peskov
This is the kind of stuff decided out of the rooms of a congress .
True that the issue of presidency is not so important, as many commentators observe, because the power is always in Putin's hands, regardless of the position .
But if today United Russia is in a great crisis of votes which neither the popular front could cover, and Putin himself had to rush to Rogozin , taking a huge amount of risks, as M. Bohm wisely noted in today's theMoscowtimes editorial, then something with the leading figure, which was supposed to be Medvedev, is wrong .
Foreign policies achievements are even worse, because miserable results were obtained for the reset and shadowy attitudes were used at UN council .
All in all, Russia was better off with an aggressive Putin at the presidency, than with his protege .
Surkov latest statements, make me think that they want to keep this scheme and Putin would still be relatively behind the curtains, but in my humble opinion this would further weaken Russia image abroad and United Russia consensus at home .