MOSCOW. Oct 18 (Interfax) - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has said that, if he is elected Russia's next president, he is "not going to make any drastic changes" to what has been done by incumbent President Dmitry Medvedev.
"If the voters, the citizenry, our people accept the authority configuration option that we have proposed I, for example, am not going to make any drastic changes to what has been done by Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev as president of the country. We should see how it all works," Putin said in an interview televised on Monday.
"To be honest, I can't see anything revolutionary there," Putin told three Russian national television channels. "Dmitry Anatolyevich, as president, has acted in line with his own ideas of what is good and what is bad, and in line with the situation that has been taking shape in the country. But let me repeat: I can't see anything particularly revolutionary there."
"We are not the same person, we are different people, and at some point Dmitry Anatolyevich thought it necessary that it would be more advisable to take some steps toward the humanization of some spheres of our public life; that is his right as head of state," Putin said.
However, "we share the same positions on strategic issues of development of the country," the premier said.