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The New Times carefully monitored the events in Moscow in 2008 and 2012, when, after imitation of the democratic elections of the president of the country, the same undisguised imitation of the transfer of power took place
"Million march." Big Yakimanka, May 6, 2012 Photo: RIA Novosti
In 2008, Dmitry Medvedev, appointed by Vladimir Putin himself, brought the presidential oath to the successor to Vladimir Putin himself, who did not want to and did not intend to emit power-the latter became the prime minister, retaining all the levers and threads of the country (and mainly the power elite and bureaucracy). Four years later, he decided to return. The Constitutional Court correctly decided that the Constitution of Russia, which limits the presidency of two terms, did not violate. 2012 (the deadline for the presidential rule of the same faithful Duma extended up to 6 years later), when President Putin went to the inauguration to the Kremlin in empty Moscow, visibly showed a deep abyss between the government and the people.
In the days of the inauguration of 2008 and in 2012, the protest of the society against switches and neglect of the opinion of citizens resulted in street activity, which the old-New power brutally suppressed. About these days - reports from the New Times archive
"The transfer of power within the Corporation" Russia ", Ltd"