Many had placed their hopes on him.  Literally warming up their expectations, he was silent for so long. And now he has spoken.

I immediately recalled the aphorism of Stanislaw Jerzy Lec: «Well, how can one not be an optimist here: my enemies have turned out to be exactly the kind of pigs as I had supposed».

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Medvedev has turned out to be… well, if not a pig, then at least a true companion-in-arms of his friend and «older brother», who had put him in the post of president, – lieutenant-colonel from the KGB Vladimir Putin.

Medvedev has finally spoken at length about the «Khodorkovsky affair». In particular, he said that this matter “does indeed” involve the public interest.  He commented, “First, I would like to say once again that last year alone several thousand private entrepreneurs and employees of large commercial structures were sent to jail.”  What was less clear was whether or not Medvedev was boasting over his management of the country, or indicating who wasn’t on that long list of tax offenders, i.e., the close friends of Vladimir Putin who have plundered the country, as named in the Nemtsov-Milov report.