Russian Fighters shot down.

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I think Russia scares me more today than they did in the 80's. What's-his-name (the guy that was President or whatever and is still running the country) seems like a loose cannon to me.

Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev, born 14 September 1965: Medvedev was appointed First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian government on November 14, 2005. Formerly Vladimir Putin's chief of staff, he was also the Chairman of Gazprom's board of directors, a post he had held, for the second time, since 2000. On December 10, 2007, he was informally endorsed as a candidate for the forthcoming presidential elections by the largest Russian political party, United Russia, and officially endorsed on December 17, 2007. Medvedev's candidacy was supported by former President Vladimir Putin and pro-presidential parties. A technocrat and political appointee, Medvedev had never held elective office before 2008.

I didn't feel like looking it up. Thanks.

It's Putin that scares me. Medvedev seems like a figurehead, not really in charge, but answering to Putin...

exactly

Yyyyep.... Imagine having a staffer from an administration get elected.... Yikes.....

if the stories I have heard about the last Russian election are true, he wasn't so much elected as just annointed and installed with the full weight of the aparachiks behind Putin's decision

Precisely.