MEDVEDEV IN YAROSLAVL: Definition of Democracy
President Medvedev chose democracy as a major topic for the 2010 Yaroslavl Forum, indicating that it is not merely an abstract subject for him, and that perhaps he himself is a democrat. Medvedev increasingly believes that Russia should be more of a democracy. Of course, he also understands that democracy is a process, an aim, which can be defined in theory, but is never perfectly attainable in reality. This too was very well understood by all the participants at the Forum, who discussed the idea of democracy and the process of democratization, that is to say, the ways in which to improve or further develop democracy...