November 20, 2008. President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister, chairman of the United Russia Party Vladimir Putin, center, from left, Vyacheslav Volodin, center, behind them, secretary of the Presidium of the party's General Council, and Andrei Vorobyov, behind the prime minister, head of the party's Central Executive Committee, at the opening of the 10th meeting of the party at Moscow's Gostiny Dvor.