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    Dmitry Medvedev: the rise and fall of the Robin to Putin’s Batman

    Corruption allegations and embarrassing public moments weakened Russia’s former PM
    by Luke Harding Jan 15, 2020 3 minutes
    Putin and Medvedev exercising at the Bocharov Ruchei residence in Sochi in 2015. Photograph: Mikhail Klimentyev/Rex/Shutterstock

    Vladimir Putin’s decision on Wednesday to accept the resignation of Dmitry Medvedev was not a surprise. For some time, Medvedev’s standing within the Russian government has been inexorably sinking.

    There have been embarrassing public moments. Medvedev has been spotted nodding off during Putin’s presidential addresses, not once but on several occasions.

    These lapses might have been forgiven. But it is allegations of personal corruption that may have weakened Medvedev fatally, leading Putin to replace him as prime minister with a low-profile tax official, Mikhail Mishustin. In a on YouTube, the opposition leader, Alexey Navalny, accused Medvedev

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