Ilya Milstein. Courtesy Photo No, the president does not participate in the discussion of pension reform, all questions for Medvedev and his ministers. And what promised, while he was alive and sitting in the Kremlin, not to increase the age threshold for retirement, so it was. Since then, so much has changed, including "demography, the level of economic development, international situation" that this is already simple another Russia - in a good way, of course.