Dmitry Medvedev
Medvedev fires Moscow mayor for 'losing president's trust'
September 29, 2010Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has fired Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov following a high-stakes political standoff between the Kremlin and the powerful city leader. Medvedev issued the decree sacking Luzhkov while on a state visit to China. Speaking to...
Medvedev heads to Baku amid growing tensions in South Caucasus
September 02, 2010Amid a colorful firework display, Azerbaijan raised a massive version of its national flag on September 1 that it claims is the world's largest, at 70 meters by 35 meters long and a whopping 350 kilograms. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, presiding...
Medvedev carrying out ‘cadres revolution’ in the regions
August 11, 2010By Paul Goble President Dmitry Medvedev has replaced more than a third of the heads of federal subjects over the last two years, producing a greater change in personnel at that level than over the previous decade and thereby engineering &ldquo...
Hot summer in Moscow emerges as a political problem
August 04, 2010By Pavel K. Baev For weeks, the main news in Russia has been the weather –this summer has set many new heat records– but since last Friday, forest fires have become its new focus. Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev, held a special council...
Moscow wrong to write off western Ukraine as inevitably anti-Russian
July 30, 2010By Paul Goble Russian officials are making a costly and two-fold mistake in viewing Ukraine as a country permanently divided between a virulently nationalistic and Russophobic West and a Russian-speaking and pro-Moscow East, according to a senior...
Russian military reform faces manning crisis
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July 30, 2010By Pavel Felgenhauer Russia’s attempts to build a modern military have run into a roadblock: there are not enough conscripts to fill the ranks. In the fall of 2008, the Russian military was a reservist/mobilization force. According to the Chief...
Gorbachev warns of explosive problems with Medvedev’s “modernization”
July 27, 2010by Pavel K. Baev Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev, concentrated on the European direction of his modernization-focused foreign policy last week, making working visits to Finland and Italy. Both countries are Russia’s close partners and the trips...
Medvedev moots Russia-Germany “Modernization Alliance”
July 21, 2010by Pavel K. Baev What made the annual Russian-German summit, held in Yekaterinburg last week, an event loaded with “innovative” symbolism, was President, Dmitry Medvedev’s, attempt to set Russia’s foreign policy on a new Western...
Russia’s radical right views Putin-but not Medvedev-as ‘one of their own
July 13, 2010by Paul Goble Many members of Russia’s radical and often violent extreme nationalist right believe that Vladimir Putin, unlike his predecessor Boris Yeltsin or successor Dmitry Medvedev, is “fulfilling [their] minimum program” thus...
The Russia-US “Reset” and Medvedev’s non-leadership
July 07, 2010by Pavel K. Baev President, Dmitry Medvedev, can consider his visit to the US successful, but it was still not good enough to put relations on a sure footing. He enjoyed new gadgets in Silicon Valley and hamburgers with US President, Barack Obama, he...