MOSCOW - A petition calling on Russia's president to sack Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, whose comments about teachers' pay sparked outrage earlier this week, has attracted more than a hundred thousand signatures. When asked by a teacher from the impoverished Dagestan region why teachers are paid half as much as police officers, Medvedev retorted that teaching is not a job for those seeking to make a fortune and that a young, energetic man can always make money on the side.
