Russian President Dmitry Medvedev dismissed on Friday any suggestion there is no democracy in Russia.
"That is not so; Russia is a democracy - young and immature, imperfect and inexperienced, but it is a democracy," he told the Yaroslavl Global Policy Forum.
"I know the shortcomings of this system - perhaps better than anyone else, if only because I have more information," Medvedev said, calling criticism of Russia's political system "unfair and tendentious."
"We are at the very start of our path and it is a path to freedom," he said.
YAROSLAVL, September 10 (RIA Novosti)
