At the start of a year likely to be dominated by an extraordinary degree of uncertainty, it is worth setting out what some of the world’s top political and business leaders could reasonably predict for 2008, as they gather today in the Swiss resort of Davos.
The outcome of the Russian presidential election, for a start, seems certain to be the victory of Vladimir Putin’s anointed successor, Dmitri Medvedev, his loyal and efficient chief of staff.
