Though he has been in office for three years, Dmitry Medvedev remains a political enigma even in a country so rich in mind-muddling mysteries.
Russia’s 45-year-old president is evidently in power, yet remains strangely removed from it. He is responsible for running the biggest country in the world, yet seems to exercise limited control over it.
To his critics, he is the politically impotent occupant of a constitutionally omnipotent post, elected by the majority of Russia’s 109m voters but answerable to only one: his mentor, friend and former boss, prime minister Vladimir Putin.
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