Putin's Unwilling Executioner?

Wednesday, March 05, 2008

MOSCOW: The question that has dominated Russian politics, and world discussion of Russian politics - "Will he (Vladimir Putin) or won't he stay in power?" - has now been settled. He will and he won't.

The election of Putin's longtime acolyte and handpicked successor, Dmitri Medvedev, as Russia's president means that Putin is formally surrendering all the pomp and circumstance of Kremlin power.

But now it looks like 21-gun salutes and first place in protocol lines are the only things that Putin is giving up - if that. In opting to become President Medvedev's prime minister, Putin sees himself as coming closer to the machine of power, because he will obtain minute-by-minute control of the government.

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