Dmitry Medvedev
Comic strip casts Putin, Medvedev as superheroes
May 26, 2011Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, clad in a kimono, rushes to rescue a bus threatened by an Al-Qaeda bomb. He narrowly manages to save the passengers with the help of his loyal, bear-costumed sidekick, President Dmitry Medvedev. That's the plot...
Russia's Medvedev promises election decision 'soon'
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May 18, 2011Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has promised journalists he will reveal whether or not he will stand for re-election in 2012 "soon". His predecessor and mentor, Vladimir Putin, is eligible to stand again as president next year, after two...
Dmitry Medvedev: Russian ministers must quit boardrooms
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March 31, 2011Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev has announced that by mid-2011 he wants government ministers to give up their seats on boards of directors. The proposal is being seen as a potential blow to a close ally of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, Igor Sechin...
Russian politics turns towards Putin’s new presidency
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February 01, 2011During the past month, President Dmitry Medvedev has turned into a disappearing and irrelevant figure in the Russian political arena. His lame-duck status was established beyond any reasonable doubt by the unreasonably harsh verdict against Mikhail...
Medvedev orders extra security after suicide bombing
January 25, 2011Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has ordered extra security at all Russian airports and train stations, after a suicide bomber blew himself up in Moscow's biggest airport Monday, killing 35 people and hospitalizing 110 others. Mr. Medvedev is demanding...
“Eagle Guardian” and the strange case of the leak without legs
January 18, 2011(Part One) For more than a month the media was full of accounts of the latest revelations from WikiLeaks broadcasting US diplomatic cables to the world. The international speculation about the ramifications of the world reading US classified diplomatic...
Moldova between the EU and Russia
January 12, 2011By Vladimir Socor Moldova’s Alliance for European Integration (AEI) has won a new, and potentially longer, lease on life, after 16 months of insecure governance (EDM, January 7). Its post-election government is due to be installed on January...
‘TV Party’ losing out to ‘Internet Party’ in Russia
December 23, 2010By Paul Goble Russia currently has only “two real mass parties, the party of the television and the party of the Internet,” the editors of Gazeta.ru say, and declines in the influence of the former relative to the latter should be a matter...
Russia tightens security after nationalist riot near Kremlin
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December 14, 2010Russian authorities closed Red Square and cordoned off the Kremlin after President Dmitry Medvedev warned race riots threaten "the stability of the state." Hundreds of riot police, dressed in black helmets and bullet-proof vests closed off...
Medvedev's visit signals warming relations with Poland
December 09, 2010Russian President Dmitry Medvedev was in Poland this week for a two-day visit. The event has been heralded as a sign of improving relations on both sides. Russian President Dmitri Medvedev arrived in Warsaw, Poland earlier this week in an atmosphere...