On November 11 President Dmitry Medvedev made his annual State of the Nation Address to the Federation Council. But if a year ago, the head of the Russian state focused on the challenges of foreign policy, this year the central theme of his speech was internal politics. Medvedev attempted to answer the question of what’s to be done to make Russia into a modern state that is not aiming to preserve and execute its old potential, but to achieve new tasks. Part of the president’s answer was dedicated to analyzing the situation in the Caucasus.
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