Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev delivered another lofty message last week, speaking for a record one hour and forty minutes during his second State of the Nation Address. Medvedev reiterated the scathing analysis of Russia’s problems and the country’s failure to modernize during the past decades, which he first outlined in his “Go Russia!” article published online two months ago. Will Medvedev’s State of the Nation lead to real change? Why is Medvedev’s program for “modernization” so conspicuously vague? Did his latest speech contain criticism of the political and economic system created under his predecessor Vladimir Putin?
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