正是在这样的威胁下，梅德韦杰夫才在11月公开表态： 他在自己的博客中写道 ， “ 到某个阶段为止，政治生活已经出现停滞的迹象，将稳定变为停滞因素的威胁也已经产生，这已经不是什么秘密了。 ”
This threat evidently motivated Medvedev to speak out in November: “It is no secret,” Medvedev wrote in his blog, “that, as of a certain period, symptoms of stagnation have begun to appear in our political life, and the threat of turning stability into a factor of stagnation has appeared.”