Dmitry medvedev

Dimitry Medvedev has just taken up the presidency of Russia, the worlds second most powerful country.
He was the Chairman of Gazprom, which recently overtook china mobil to become the 3rd largest company in the world. Now he has resigned the post and is looking forward to take office as the youngest president of Russia.
With Putin at the helm of affairs, as the PM, medvedev will have a hopefully strong control over the government for the next few years.

Some facts about Medvedev

Medvedev met his wife, Svetlana, in seventh grade. The two married in 1989 and have one son, Ilya. Svetlana organizes art and fashion events and is a society figure

Mikhail Gorbachev was his neighbour (birds of the same feather... )

In the 1990s, Medvedev became involved in local politics. It was during this period that he met Vladimir Putin, when they both worked at the St. Petersburg City Hall.

Medvedev is a fan of such rock-and-roll groups as Deep Purple, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, and Black Sabbath. In February 2008, Medvedev lived out a longtime dream when he attended a Deep Purple concert at the Kremlin

The Bald and Hairy tradition

There is this long standing theory that bald and hairy leaders alternate each other at kremlin in strict succession. this rule has not been broken for close to a whopping 130 years.

This rule has never been broken for close to 130 years, ever since the balding Alexander III took over from hairy father in 1881.

Nicolas II, who succeeded Alexander III, was hairy, Vladimir Lenin was bald, Joseph Stalin was hairy, Nikita Khrushchev was bald, Leonid Brezhnev was hairy. Balding Yuri Andropov was succeeded by hairy Nikolai Chernenko, who left his seat to bald Mikhail Gorbachev.

Hairy Boris Yeltsin promoted balding Vladimir Putin, who has now supported hairy Dmitry Medvedev as his preferred successor.

Some claim, for instance, that hairy Yevgeny Primakov pulled out of the 2000 presidential race against baldish Mr. Putin because he did not fit into the hairy-bald succession pattern and, therefore, had no chance of winning.

Adherents of the quirky bald-hairy theory say that Mr. Medvedev is assured of victory in the March 2 presidential poll, not so much because he has the support of the incumbent President, but because he is hairy enough.