---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Caleb Pritchard<cpritchard2001@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 8:55 AM Subject: Top Putin lieutenant loses his job To: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>
"Asked by a journalist from Interfax on Tuesday why he was leaving,
Mr. Surkov first answered, 'Stabilization devours its own children.' Then he laughed, and said he had overstayed the job and had requested a
reassignment. Asked whether he would take a role in settling down the
protests, Mr. Surkov said no. 'I am too odious for this brave new world,' he said."