Putin-Miedwiediew : two visions of Russia - everlasting dilemma of the development way

Abstract

The dilemma of choosing a direction of .future development faced by Russia, both in the political context as well as in the sense of the contemporary political events, still remains unresolved. There are many reasons accounting for this situation. The Russian Federation is still such a particular subject of international relations, that it is very difficult to make unambiguous predictions related to the future of the country. This is due to the fact that many processes taking place in Russia (regardless of the twenty years that have passed since the collapse of the “iron curtain” in the field of the USSR mass media policy and the beginning the Yeltsin era), still remain vague for the public opinion of the world.