February 26, 2008 By Citizen M

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Feb. 26, 2008

260208.jpgTODAY: Will the Putin/Medvedev working relationship survive? EU to agree on principles for sovereign wealth funds. Russia’s military and healthcare under attack.The unfortunate reality is that duty rather than interest will take Russians to the polling stations this Sunday.” Analysts say that a breakdown in the working relationship between Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev in the roles of president and prime minister “could destroy the stability the arrangement is supposed to safeguard.” Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves warned that, on the eve of its presidential election, Russia might be sliding into dictatorship, and said that the current mentality reminds him “of the Weimar republic”. Andrei Bogdanov, meanwhile, has been campaigning “with his grandmother”.