Portraits of Power

Medvedev and Putin looking Presidential

Dmitri Medvedev is not just President of Russia. Nor is he simply a rising global interlocutor. He, or really his visage, is also the subject to the whims of the marketplace. According to Kommersant Vlast,

People are even trying to sell the portrait of the President of Russia using spam.  Evidently, the reason for the crisis of production which has arisen in the market of portraits of Russian government leaders, is because sellers overestimated buyers demand for portraits of Dmitri Medvedev. On the internet several internet shops exists that sell the portrait of the President and between them there is a genuine trading war.

One site, http://www.portrets.ru, is allowing you to download creepy portraits of Medvedev and Putin for free!