You seem to me too credulous by half when it comes to apparent tensions between the Russian prime minister and president (“The Vladimir and Dmitry Show,” September 19, 2009). By the next elections in 2012, everything will be hunky dory, I am more than sure. If anything, Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev are putting up a good show, no pun intended. In the case Dmitry gets a bit too ambitious against his better judgment, you can be certain of a nasty scandal that will rock Russia in a year or maybe two. Embezzlement, treachery, pedophilia, you name it. But the good old KGB will be right behind Vladimir. The show is but a diversion for the credulous, especially in Russia itself, where they are a dime a dozen.