TODAY: Medvedev publishes income declaration. Putin and Medvedev could “take turns” to run Russia. Kasyanov’s chief campaigner is detained. Pensions and public sector wages could be raised. Russia weighs in on Israel-Palestine conflict. Dmitry Medvedev’s official income declaration published on the election commission website reveals that the presidential candidate does not own his own car, and was paid about $71,000 in pay per year over the past four years. “The Russian media has treated such declarations of income with much scorn.” Medvedev is now officially registered as a presidential candidate, but his touring of Russian regions already this year is perceived by some Russian journalists as the work of “President Vladimir Putin’s de facto successor [rather than of] a presidential candidate”. According to one senior Kremlin official, “Putin and his favored successor Dmitry Medvedev could take turns to run Russia for another quarter of a century”.