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