RUSSIA: "Medvedev's Moscow Spring: Putin's successor as president like a smooth-talking yes man. That's changing now," by Owen Matthews and Anna Nemtsova, Newsweek, 4 May 2009.

Key bit:

But lately some of Medvedev's detractors are starting to think they may have underestimated him. The president has begun publicly overturning some of Putin's key policies, rolling back repressive legislation and paying attention to the government's critics rather than trying to silence them. "We all want to believe that our ruler in generous, fair and kind," says journalist and human-rights activist Svetlana Sorokina. "Now we're seeing the first signs that he is."

Patience, my friends.