The fear of a struggle

The Moscow correspondent for the Spanish daily ABC reports that one of the greatest challenges facing the new president is corruption in Russia: "Paradoxically, Putin continues to be very popular despite the fact that it was under his government that corruption took on its current alarming proportions. ... Medvedev has a counterweight which Putin did not have, but it remains to be seen whether he will let himself be manipulated like a puppet. One should not forget that according to the Russian constitution, it is the president who governs. Both in Russia and abroad people are concerned that this two-headed state could lead to the kind of struggle that existed between Boris Yeltsin and the Supreme Soviet in 1993."

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