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Sunday, March 02, 2008

Kountry Kousins Kan

8 comments:

Pepe le Pew said...: Who's the other dweeb?; 3/02/2008 10:32 PM
Tecumseh said...: The pinko leader from the Kremlin, of course. You're slippin', Pepe.; 3/02/2008 10:51 PM
Pepe le Pew said...: Ah... and the point is they both have a white shirt and a blue tie?; 3/02/2008 11:28 PM
Arelcao Akleos said...: Pepe, you know it's more than that. For instance, you yourself modestly pointed out that both are dweebs; 3/02/2008 11:37 PM
Tecumseh said...: The Russkie is a shyster, but the huck is a huckster. On the other hand, they both hate math: Irina Grigorovskaya, who taught Math to Medvedev when he was at school, said he was “a conscientious and industrious pupil. He had good grades in my subject, but at the same time he was obviously more inclined to humanitarian subjects. I remember even when he was still just a boy, he already used to say that Math was not his priority because he wanted to be a lawyer and he wouldn’t need Math a lot for that.” Sounds like your typical Dem politico, too.; 3/02/2008 11:46 PM
Mr roT said...: Wow. A humanitarian ruler for Russia and he's Putin's blessed successor! I wonder what the rest of that class was like!; 3/03/2008 12:39 AM
Tecumseh said...: At the law faculty, Medvedev concentrated on studying civil law, which was taught by Anatoly Sobchak, who was later mayor of St. Petersburg and also taught Putin. After completing post-graduate studies at the department, Medvedev himself taught at the faculty.

Medvedev’s students respected him a lot. “You know, the students of our department are traditionally rather demanding, but Dmitry Anatolyevich, though he was rather young for a teacher at that time, earned their respect. [..] At the same time, I’d say it’s not a completely new feeling for us, as we’ve been having a similar experience over recent years,” she said, referring to the fact that current Russian president Putin also studied there.

Ruslan Linkov, St. Petersburg’s human rights advocate who met Medvedev in 1990 when Medvedev worked on the Leningrad Council together with Sobchak, said he remembered Medvedev as a “quiet, calm and polite man” who also produced an impression of “a reformer”. Linkov said that when he met Medvedev after the latter’s career had developed in Moscow, he didn’t notice any big changes in him. “He was as usual extremely polite, and did not exceed the limits of his competence,” Linkov said.

What a ringing endorsement.; 3/03/2008 7:43 AM
Pepe le Pew said...: It's very reassuring to hear he can be civil in some occasions.; 3/03/2008 8:04 AM

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