Editor: Our blog has recently posted about the voyage of president Medvedev to Kamchatka and his visit to an atomic submarine. In connection with this, our correspondent Grigory Pasko also has his comments. The president, it seems, is different, but the rake’s the same… Grigory Pasko, journalist I recalled the phrase of journalist Akram Murtazayev “Whoever hasn’t stepped on the same rake three times isn’t a Russian” when I read the reports about the visit by President Dmitry Medvedev to an atomic submarine on Kamchatka. The mass information media reported (I cite from the wonderful military newspaper Krasnaya zvezda [Red Star]:

President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev began a working journey to Kamchatka with a visit to a base for submarines of the Pacific Ocean Fleet. On board the atomic underwater cruiser of strategic designation St. George the Victorious the Supreme Commander in Chief designated two main tasks in the military sphere: “First, this is the modernization of the Armed Forces themselves, and second, this is a strengthening of the status of the military serviceperson, which includes within itself too a raising of the monetary allowance…“