The New York Times, Leaders’ Spat Tests Skills of Survival in the Kremlin
It was a strange week for Russia’s political elite.
Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin and President Dmitri A. Medvedev of Russia last month at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow.
On March 21, officials were confronted with a rare moment of open disagreement between the two men who run the country. Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin issued a lacerating critique of the allied attacks on Libya — the kind of protest that accompanied Western interventions in Iraq and Kosovo. President Dmitri A. Medvedev, who had articulated a more pro-Western position, rebuked his mentor, calling Mr. Putin’s language “unacceptable.”
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