Putin has usurped authority not just from his more knowledgeable colleagues, but also from the prime minister, who has traditionally served as Russia’s chief economic policymaker. Indeed, since Putin returned to the presidency in 2012, Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev has been all but irrelevant.
普京不但从他的知识渊博的同事手中夺权，也从总理手中夺权。传统上，俄罗斯总理是这个国家的最高经济决策者。事实上，自2012年普京重新出任总统以来，总理梅德韦杰夫便沦为了可有可无的人物。