A Good Treaty has published a blog post responding to Ellen Barry’s New York Times piece commenting on a recent speech given by Dmitry Medvedev at the Yaroslavl Global Policy Forum.  Contrasting his comments with the hardline “rejection of multiculturalism” as sprouted by Ambassador to NATO Dmitry Rogozin in a speech earlier in the day, AGT argues that Medvedev is still indeed fighting for his job.  Both items are worth reading.

While Russia’s third president could very well turn out to be a one-termer, the evidence in Yaroslavl hardly implies that he’s not fighting for his job. A gaping omission in Barry’s September 11th article is any mention of Rogozin’s speech, which–placed next to Medvedev’s–represents a clear polemic between civic patriotism (Medvedev) and ethnic nationalism (Rogozin).