Perhaps Putin will continue where the hapless but well-intentioned Medvedev left off.

“Reforms we wrote for the Kremlin came too late [for Medvedev], but they are on the way” under Putin, he insists.

Putin also said he would make Medvedev prime minister depending on how his party, United Russia, did in the elections.

The whole idea of reset was founded on the false assumption Medvedev was an independent politician.