Medvedev’s annual state-of-the-nation address has been hotly anticipated, with talk of electoral reforms surfacing in today’s FT, issues of modernization and the promise of responses to his Go Russia! article to be included. For those interested in the bones of it, here are some highlights just in from Reuters:

On how to move Russia forward:

“We will create a new economy instead of a primitive resource-oriented economy … We will become a society of free, clever and responsible people, instead of being an archaic society where leaders decide for people.”

“We haven’t managed to get rid of the primitive structure of our economy, from a primitive resource dependency … The competitiveness of our production is shamefully low.”