The war between Dmitry Medvedev and Vladimir Putin has actually already begun. Supporters and associates of the Kremlin’s former ringleader are now holding leading posts in the new government of Russia.

Moscow was perplexed about the decision made by the Ukrainian authorities to ban Moscow mayor Luzhkov from entering Ukraine. Moscow found nothing wrong with Luzkov’s calls to start redrawing the Ukrainian map and handing the port city of Sevastopol, Crimea, to Russia.

It was only by a miracle that an emergency did not happen on the Red Square, where an armored vehicle was passing as part of a column,” The Tvoy Den (“Your Day”) periodical writes referring to its sources.