Issue 4270. Last Updated: 11/08/2009

A Shift in Authority

By Konstantin Sonin
In December, when it became clear that President Vladimir Putin planned to transfer his office to First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and then himself move to the post of prime minister, the plan immediately raised some serious doubts.

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