At first glance, the choice of leader in Russia looks consequential. Dmitry Medvedev has been applying a gloss of modernity to Russian foreign policy. The president is not forever obsessed about the alleged iniquities of the US and Nato after the fall of the Soviet Union. From time to time he acknowledges that Russia has problems to confront closer to home: an unmodernised economy, a shrinking population, Islamist extremism and the strategic threat to an emptying Siberia.
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