Dmitry on Twitter

Commentators here and there have been reporting that Medvedev is gonna start tweeting, that he'll have a Twitter account running by this summer.

I'm as big a Medvedev fan as the next guy, but I don't have high hopes for this project - I mean, he already has at least three blogs, one of which hasn't been updated since February and the other two which are basically press conferences or meeting clips with comments enabled.

The last non-video clip, text-based posting on Medvedev's LiveJournal "blog" is from December 8, 2009 and is a legal declaration on the regulation of casinos.

All this is to say that my hopes for an off-the-cuff, extemporaneous and lively Twitter feed are extremely low.

For that, I'll direct your attention to the Twitter account of Russia's representative to NATO, Dmitry Rogozin. This one I started reading daily after he tweeted in February that Russia would kick America's ass. Also see here for a nuanced take on gays in the military.