14 - Medvedev & Putin/Russia

President Medvedev, and? of course, Prime Minister Putin

Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev (Russian pronunciation: born 14 September 1965) is currently President of Russia won the 2008 presidential election and nominated Putin as his Prime Minister.

DAVOS, Switzerland (CNN) 28 January, 2009, during keynote speeches at the World Economic Forum.
Putin telling delegates that the crisis constituted a "perfect storm."
While economists and analysts could -- and should -- have predicted the crisis, Putin said, instead it had "come unexpectedly, just as winter comes unexpectedly to Russia every year."