The following is a translation of the MBK’s opinion editorial as published today in Vedomosti (original is here).

GENERATION M

Many of my comrades consider that it is senseless to comment on president Dmitry Medvedev’s famous article “Russia, forward!”, and even more so to polemicise with it. According to this point of view, the publicly declared attempt by Medvedev to appeal to the intellectually and creatively active part of society is a farce and a bluff, and the head of state is merely playing the classic role of the “good cop” in a theatrical performance by the name of “The Russian Tandemocracy”. All this is being done so that one part of the population of the RF would continue to love Putin as before, while the other, which does not overlap with the first, would start to love Medvedev, or at the very least begin to believe him.