It would be wrong to dismiss President Dmitry Medvedev as a lame duck after his news conference last week. All the signals Medvedev sent were the right ones, while his public performance was impressive and likable. There stood a president the nation could be proud of. And the odds are higher now that he will be running this country for the next six years.
With the news conference, Medvedev has rejoined Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s intimidation dance in the run-up to the decision on which of the two might run in the 2012 presidential election.
