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Dmitry Medvedev stories: 114 news summaries

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Russian Pardon Effort Tests Medvedev

Thousands sign online petition to free woman jailed by mentor Putin

Nov 17, 08 9:22 AM CST
(Newser) - A grassroots effort to pardon a convicted lawyer could allow Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to bolster the liberal image he's worked to create, but to issue the reprieve he must stand up to Vladimir Putin. Svetlana Bakhmina was arrested during one of Putin’s crackdowns on corruption at state oil... More »

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Russia • Vladimir Putin • pardon • embezzlement • Dmitry Medvedev • Yukos • Svetlana Bakhmina

Medvedev Hopeful That Obama Will Thaw Relations

Russian prez cites
'great aspirations'

Nov 16, 08 11:17 AM CST
(Newser) - Russia’s president believes Barack Obama’s presidency “will act to overcome problems which have accumulated” between his country and the US, he said in Washington. “We have great aspirations” for Obama’s White House, Dmitry Medvedev added. Former secretary of state Madeleine Albright, who moderated the meeting,... More »

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Russia • missile defense system • international relations • Dmitry Medvedev • President Obama

World Leaders Desperately Seeking Obama

President-elect avoids awkward meetings at summit by staying in Chicago

Nov 12, 08 1:31 PM CST
(Newser) - With the leaders of 19 nations converging on Washington and clamoring to meet with the president-elect, the situation has become, as Barack Obama’s advisers tell the New York Times, “awkward.” Russian officials apparently thought President Dmitri Medvedev would be meeting with Obama, who transition advisers are keeping... More »

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Barack Obama • Dmitry Medvedev • Washington, DC • George W. Bush • G20 • summit meeting • President Obama

ANALYSIS

Medvedev, Putin Move to Tighten Grip on Russia

Extending president's term would lock in power for a generation

Nov 6, 08 7:20 AM CST
(Newser) - Dmitry Medvedev's proposal yesterday to extend the Russian president's term from 4 years to 6 looks like another step in Russia's "alarming and rapid drift towards authoritarianism," the Guardian reports. The move came as a Russian newspaper, citing sources in the Kremlin, claimed that Medvedev could resign as... More »

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Russia • Vladimir Putin • Kremlin • authoritarianism • Dmitry Medvedev • Russian president

Russia Will
Move Missiles Near Poland

Installation would 'neutralize' US shield
in Central Europe

Nov 5, 08 1:06 PM CST
(Newser) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev delivered an aggressive speech against the US today, threatening to deploy short-range missiles and perhaps its navy to “neutralize” US plans for an anti-missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic. Moscow perceives the American defense system—which Washington says is intended to deter “... More »

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Russia • NATO • Vladimir Putin • United States • missile • Dmitry Medvedev • defense



 Medvedev 
 Calls for 
 Anti-US 
 Alliance 

Tries to drive wedge between Europe and America

Oct 9, 08 9:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - Dmitry Medvedev was in France today, mending bridges with Europe while laying the world’s problems—economic and otherwise—at America’s feet, the Telegraph reports. Medvedev blamed US “economic egotism” for the financial breakdown, and accused it of reviving its Russian containment policy and reigniting the Cold... More »

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Russia • Europe • Nicolas Sarkozy • France • Dmitry Medvedev

Russian Army Leaves Georgian Buffer Zones

Troops will stay in breakaway regions; EU forces to remain

Oct 8, 08 2:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Russian troops have withdrawn from the “buffer zones” that separate the secessionist republics of South Ossetia and Abkhazia from the rest of Georgia ahead of Friday's deadline, the BBC reports. Though Russia plans to keep 7,600 troops inside the breakaway republics themselves, the move "paves the way... More »

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Russia • European Union • Georgia • Dmitry Medvedev • Abkhazia • South Ossetia • EU Monitors

 Resurgent Russia 
 Vows to Beef Up Military 

'Colossus' created with $1B Venezuela military loan, oil deal

Sep 27, 08 6:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - Russia signed a $1 billion military loan deal with Venezuela yesterday while pledging to upgrade its own military, the New York Times reports. The country plans to ratchet its defense budget back up to Cold War levels next year and intends to have new warships built by 2020. President Dmitry... More »

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Russia • Venezuela • Vladimir Putin • Georgia • Russian military • Hugo Chávez • Dmitry Medvedev

Medvedev Urges Calm in Russian Market Crisis

With stocks off big,
bank chief warns of
lack of liquidity

Sep 11, 08 4:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Russian economy is skidding, and its leaders are giving somewhat contradictory messages, the AP reports. Shortly after President Dmitry Medvedev assured the public today that stock-market troubles don’t “reflect the actual state of the economy,” the chairman of the country’s central bank said “as... More »

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Russia • stock exchange • central bank • liquidity • Dmitry Medvedev • subprime crisis • oil prices • Sergei Ignatyev • stock index • financial crisis

Russia Agrees to Leave Georgia Within Month

But Medvedev says nothing about South Ossetia, Abkhazia trouble spots

Sep 8, 08 11:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - Russia promised to remove its troops from Georgia within a month, French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced today after meeting with Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev. But Medvedev made no mention of troops in the breakaway regions of South Ossetia or Abkhazia, promising only to remove them from the rest of the... More »

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Russia • European Union • Nicolas Sarkozy • Georgia • Dmitry Medvedev

Medvedev: US Taunting Russia With Ships

He scoffs at notion
that they're providing humanitarian relief

Sep 6, 08 12:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Dmitry Medvedev accused the US of baiting the bear today by using military vessels to deliver humanitarian aid to Georgia. “I wonder how they would feel if we now dispatched humanitarian assistance to the Caribbean, suffering from a hurricane, using our navy,” mused the Russian president, theorizing that... More »

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Russia • NATO • Navy • Georgia • Dmitry Medvedev • George W. Bush

 EU Snubs Talks on
New Russia Pact

Retaliation for invasion of Georgia

Sep 2, 08 3:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - Europe has backed out of talks on a new partnership agreement with Russia in the wake of the invasion of Georgia, the BBC reports.  The decision followed an emergency European summit in Brussels. The commission president said Europe could not continue with negotiations "as if nothing had happened.... More »

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NATO • European Union • Europe • Georgia • Jose Manuel Barroso • Dmitry Medvedev • European Commission • Abkhazia • South Ossetia

Russia Will Absorb South Ossetia 'in Several Years'

'Separatist regimes ... cut off from reality,' Georgian official fires back

Aug 29, 08 10:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - Russia intends to absorb Georgia’s breakaway province of South Ossetia “in several years” or perhaps sooner, the speaker of the region’s parliament tells AP. In meetings this week in Moscow between Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and South Ossetian leader, Eduard Kokoity, the intent was “firmly stated... More »

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Russia • diplomacy • Georgia • international relations • Russian military • Dmitry Medvedev • Abkhazia • South Ossetia

 Putin: US Sparked Georgia War

Part of plot to win votes for McCain, he claims

Aug 29, 08 4:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - Invoking the era of Cold War conspiracies, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has accused the US of sparking conflict in Georgia to give John McCain a campaign boost. “They need a small victorious war,” the told CNN. He insisted the US encouraged Georgia to attack their two breakaway... More »

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Russia • John McCain • Vladimir Putin • State Department • Georgia • David Miliband • Dmitry Medvedev • George W. Bush • Abkhazia • South Ossetia • Shanghai Cooperation Organization

OPINION

Medvedev: Why
I Recognized
2 Provinces

Georgia's 'madman' forced us to act, writes Russian president

Aug 27, 08 9:04 AM CDT
(Newser) - Yesterday Russia recognized the Georgian provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent states—a move that Dmitry Medvedev calls "a heavy decision." Writing in the Financial Times, the Russian president says that independence for the two breakaway regions, which have suffered under Georgia's "vicious war on... More »

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Russia • Georgia • independence • Dmitry Medvedev • Abkhazia • South Ossetia

 West to Put Screws to Russia

New fury at Russia's formal recognition of breakaway states

Aug 27, 08 2:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - The West is preparing to crank up diplomatic pressure on Russia after its challenging move formally recognizing breakaway Ossetia and Abkhazia in the wake of its invasion of Georgia. The US, Europe and NATO have condemned the action, but Russia remains defiant. "We are not afraid of anything, including... More »

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Russia • NATO • Angela Merkel • European Union • Vladimir Putin • Georgia • United States • David Miliband • Kremlin • Viktor Yushchenko • Yulia Tymoshenko • Mikheil Saakashvili • Dmitry Medvedev • Abkhazia • South Ossetia

Russia Recognizes Georgia's Breakaway Regions

Thumbs nose at West's pleas

Aug 26, 08 7:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - Thumbing its nose at the West, Russia has officially recognized the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, Dmitry Medvedev announced today, following votes in the Russian parliament. The move flies in the face of a plea from President Bush that Russia refrain from doing so, and the US State Department’... More »

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Russia • Georgia • Dmitry Medvedev • Abkhazia • South Ossetia

Russian MPs Back Georgian Separatists

Medvedev calls possible split with NATO 'no great loss'

Aug 25, 08 6:37 PM CDT
(Newser) - Russian lawmakers voted unanimously today to recognize the independence of two Georgian breakaway regions, leaving the final decision to President Dmitry Medvedev, the Independent reports. The move threatens to further strain Russian-Western relations as Russian troops remained in Georgia with orders to inspect all shipments arriving at a Black Sea... More »

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Russia • Georgia • Dmitry Medvedev • South Ossetia

Analysis

 Germany Is Crux of Russia Talks

Merkel could be valuable go-between

Aug 25, 08 10:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - A fretful Eastern Europe is hoping Germany can play a key diplomatic role in its stare-down with Russia, the New York Times reports. Until recently, relations between Moscow and Berlin were too cozy for the Caucasus’ tastes, but East German-born Angela Merkel has distanced herself from Russia just enough... More »

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Russia • Angela Merkel • Germany • Vladimir Putin • Georgia • East Germany • Dmitry Medvedev • Gerhard Schröder • Chancellor of Germany

OPINION

Shunning Won't Work:
Invite Russia to Join NATO

Increased engagement with the bear will avert more crises: Meier

Aug 20, 08 12:53 PM CDT
(Newser) - The kneejerk impulse to punish Russia for its Georgia incursion by withdrawing NATO civilities is exactly wrong, Andrew Meier writes in the Los Angeles Times. The only way the West can get leverage, given the case of nerves the Russians have over NATO’s expansion into former Soviet states,... More »

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Russia • NATO • Vladimir Putin • Georgia • United States • Mikheil Saakashvili • Dmitry Medvedev

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