Since taking the top job in 2008, Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has been accused in everything from being Vladimir Putin’s puppet to complete lack of taste when it comes to picking a tie. Yet he has never been “accused” of being gay. Let’s dive under the jump to see why we think he might be gay and how this can be the greatest PR for Russia since WWII.

First of all, he might be gay because he has been hand-picked by then-President and now-Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to keep his Kremlin seat warm. As Yulia Latynina, a prominent investigative reporter (and fierce Kremlin critic) once said about major staff appointments in the Russian government -- “you can’t tell who is going to be a successor, but you can be certain that it’s going to be one with the largest skeletons in the closet.”

In this country, the scope of the skeletons in very limited: corruption, adultery, running over an old lady with a luxury SUV while DUI are, in a weird way, common place. So, as a thought experiment, imagine that Vladimir Putin indeed asked his long-term associate Dmitry Medvedev to take the presidential job temporarily. Putin, a highly-trained KGB officer, would know that should Medvedev decide to break the chain of command, Putin would have no control, despite any skeletons. Except for one: if Mededev is gay.

Russia remains an extremely homophobic country. Even openly gay entertainers here state that they are straight and arrange bogus marriages to ensure ticket sales among the provincial middle-class Russians. Any provable evidence of a politician’s homosexuality would put an immediate end to his political career and ensure unending public ridicule.

When we voiced this idea to a source in the Kremlin (who requested anonymity because he would be crazy not to), he said that Medvedev’s old nickname in the Kremlin circles was devon’ka (“девонька”) - little girl in Russian.

Now, if this Kremlinologic theory of ours was true, it would be the greatest PR Russia could imagine. That would be even better than Arnold Schwarzenegger’s visit.

So, we appeal to the readers who possess a rare gift of gaydar: what do you think?