Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 4:19 pm
I don't think Putin needs an ordained heir until he's dead. By that time, someone more competent than Club Med will have stepped up.Alhazad wrote:Heh, that's a funny tangent.GORDON wrote:I remember when Putin seized the Russian petroleum industry. Ditto Chavez.
Good times.
You know the media arm of the government-controlled gas company Gazprom was important in the promotion of Medvedev as Putin's successor and the discrediting of his opponent?