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November 14, 2008
Russia Profile Weekly Experts Panel: Medvedev’s Conflicting Signals
Introduced by Vladimir Frolov
Special to Russia Profile
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President Dmitry Medvedev’s first State of the Nation Address sent confusing signals. In its timing and foreign policy messages it seemed to be a direct challenge to his new counterpart across the Atlantic. In proposing changes to the constitution it overturned a political taboo that even former President Vladimir Putin did not challenge. And it mysteriously failed to say anything about the financial crisis. But it also contained distinctly liberalizing elements. Our experts ask whether the president is suffering a crisis of political identity, or is actually pursing a very well laid out plan.

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