Guess Who! Vladimir Putin will return to the Kremlin

Dmitry Medvedev, Russia’s president, told a congress of the ruling United Russia party that Vladimir Putin would return to the Kremlin after a presidential election in March 2012, and Mr Putin informed them that Mr Medvedev would stay on as prime minister and leader of United Russia. The applause from bureaucrats whose only concern is to stay close to the rent-distributing centre grew louder when Mr Putin and Mr Medvedev told them that they had agreed this arrangement several years ago.