Russia’s new 42-year-old president showed frustration with government officials who do not know how to use a computer and warned Thursday that they could soon be out of a job.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev came to his grandest global meeting yet with a mixed mandate: Start mending ties with the West, but stand fast on policies set by his predecessor and patron, Vladimir Putin.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says suggestions that the country be thrown out of the Group of Eight can’t be taken seriously.

Russia’s president showed muscle on Thursday in his first major foreign policy speech since taking office a month ago, warning that a further NATO expansion eastward would ruin Russia’s relations with the West.

President Dmitry Medvedev made his debut as the commander in chief of Russia’s armed forces Thursday, touring a missile base and promising to provide the funding needed for nuclear forces to counter global threats.

With the swearing in of Dmitry Medvedev as Russia’s president, the Kremlin leadership now mirrors one of its most potent symbols _ the double-headed eagle.

Dmitry Medvedev was inaugurated as Russia’s president on Wednesday, pledging to bolster the country’s economic development and civil rights, in what may signal a departure from his predecessor’s heavy-handed tactics.

The Kremlin says new President Dmitry Medvedev has nominated his predecessor Vladimir Putin to be prime minister.

Dmitry Medvedev has taken the Russian presidential oath of office, succeeding his patron Vladimir Putin.

It might be a tale out of a 19th century Russian storybook: A clerkish young lawyer apprenticed to a powerful man rises, through Byzantine political intrigue, to become ruler of Russia.