He said to them, What have I now done in comparison with you? Isn't the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?

And he said unto them, What have I done now in comparison of you? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abi ezer?

The election of Putin s longtime acolyte and handpicked successor, Dmitri Medvedev, as Russia s president means that Putin is formally surrendering all the pomp and circumstance of Kremlin power.