You scratch my back, I scratch yours

This is Russian politics (and perhaps others'), but if you scratch my back I will scratch yours. I will assure you the presidency, but only if you guarantee my premiership. But then of course, the PM office will be more influential than that of the president's.

Oh, Medvedev, what a silly lil' boy you are. (I will elaborate on this later)

Volodya (diminutive of Vladimir) never ceases to amaze me.