Da Putin nicht offen Stellung bezogen hat, was mit Luschkow passieren solle, hätte der Präsident, falls seine Kampagne gegen den Moskauer Ex-Bürgermeister fehlgeschlagen wäre, 2012 ohne sein Amt dagestanden.
Since Putin did not formally take sides over what would happen to Luzhkov, had Medvedev’s campaign against Moscow’s former mayor failed, the president would have found himself without a job in 2012.