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RSSMOSCOW — A day after an airport suicide bombing that investigators suspect was organized by Islamic militants, Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin on Tuesday vowed retribution. President Dmitri A. Medvedev lashed out at low-ranking subordinates at the...
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Missing the Czar:
Here I go walking down memory lane, searching for the lost Rusi bhai
Medvedev’s visit to our country, reminds me of the days gone by—the...
made popular Dec 22 2010
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will hold a bilateral meeting with Japan’s Prime Minister Naoto Kan on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation...
made popular Nov 12 2010
WORLD LEADERS have been gathering in the South Korean capital Seoul to discuss ways of rebalancing the global economy.
Russian president Dmitry Medvedev took the...
made popular Nov 11 2010
Moscow residents choked on a thick, gray smog that seeped into apartments, offices and even underground metro stations Wednesday as raging wildfires billowed...
made popular Aug 5 2010
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev Thursday endorsed a controversial draft law that would expand the powers of the Federal Security Service, the KGB’s main...
made popular Jul 16 2010
At midnight last Thursday, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree pardoning four Russians jailed for years because of their contacts with the West. The group...
made popular Jul 15 2010
Medvedev, who started his U.S. visit with a tour of Silicon Valley high-technology companies, will hold talks with Obama and then meet U.S. business leaders to pitch...
made popular Jun 24 2010
Reaching anew for peace, President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday signed a treaty to shrink their nations’ nuclear arsenals, the...
made popular Apr 8 2010
The Presidents of Russia and the United States, Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama, will meet on the sidelines of the climate summit in Copenhagen on Friday to discuss a...
made popular Dec 18 2009
President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday held out the remote republic of Tuva to illustrate Russia’s need for political reform and promised to make electoral changes...
made popular Nov 13 2009
President Dmitry Medvedev, in a clear bid to separate himself from Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, on Tuesday outlined a manifesto of change for Russia that is deeply...
made popular Sep 16 2009
It’s a cliché because it’s true: Russians love their booze. The word for the national drink, vodka, is in fact a cutesy version of the word for water. The...
made popular Aug 24 2009
As Russian-American summit is going ahead fruitfully these days in Moscow where participants, according to President B. Obama ,are “committed to leaving behind the...
made popular Jul 8 2009
The rancour and mistrust of Bush-era relations between Russia and the US were cast aside yesterday when presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev signed an agreement...
made popular Jul 7 2009
Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev will be looking to trumpet their commitment to reducing nuclear arms when they meet in Moscow next week. Resetting U.S.-...
made popular Jul 2 2009
Once it would have been Cold War rhetoric and “fraternal greetings” to Marxist guerrillas. Yesterday Russia returned to Africa in a scramble to restore its...
made popular Jun 24 2009
Months of infighting between Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and President Dmitry Medvedev over Russia’s budget ended on Monday - with Medvedev on top. At a...
made popular May 27 2009
There is no disguising the bitterness and consuming envy that Russia feels toward the United States.
Putin is a KGB Soviet-nostalgic nationalist. He mourns the fall...
made popular Dec 29 2008
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“Reagan once managed to get Russia involved in the arms race with the help of the “star wars program.” The race aggravated the crisis inside the USSR against the...
made popular Sep 29 2008
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Saturday the country has emerged as a force to ‘reckon with’ after the Caucasus crisis.’The events in South...
made popular Sep 7 2008
President Medvedev of Russia yesterday promised a “shattering blow” against any foreign power that moved against Russian citizens.
made popular Aug 19 2008
You can judge a country by the company it keeps.
When you think of Russia’s company, you think of Iran, Venezuela, North Korea, Syria, Hamas, Hezbollah. You...
made popular Jun 19 2008
Critics of Russia’s Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, can on occasion impress us with a vitriolic tirade – usually articulated in a rude language – but not with the...
made popular Jun 11 2008
At a ridiculous charade called the “St. Petersburg Economic Forum” over the weekend Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Chief Economist Jim “Mr. Bric”...
made popular Jun 9 2008
The Kremlin has made public Dmitry Medvedev’s, Russia’s new president, itinerary for his first international trip as the head of state. Later this week, Medvedev...
made popular May 20 2008
It’s necessary now to put both the word “former” and the word “president” in quotation marks when referring to Vladimir Putin. He stands...
made popular May 14 2008
With every day that passes, it becomes more and more difficult to understand why Russians hold their “former president” Vladimir Putin [see note below for...
made popular May 14 2008
The appointments proved that Mr Putin, the prime minister, rather than his protégé, will be the dominant figure in the bizarre duumvirate that now rules...
made popular May 13 2008
After a brief but pomp-filled ceremony in the gilded Grand Kremlin Palace, Medvedev immediately nominated his highly popular predecessor to be the next prime minister....
made popular May 9 2008
Thanks to the determined work of Russian physicist and computer expert Sergei Shpilkin, we now know that 56% of Russians voted in the recent “presidential...
made popular Apr 21 2008
Dmitry Medvedev won Russia’s presidential election with 70 percent of the vote, according to final preliminary returns released Tuesday.
Central Election Commission...
made popular Mar 5 2008
Dmitry Medvedev was elected as Russia’s next president, early results showed on Sunday, after a vote that will preserve the power of his mentor President Vladimir...
made popular Mar 3 2008
Russia’s First Deputy Prime Minister has accused the United States of inciting instability in Europe by backing Kosovo’s independence.
“The US is...
made popular Feb 29 2008
Allegations by nationalists that Vladimir Putin’s chosen successor, Dmitry Medvedev, has Jewish roots have brought anti-Semitism to the surface on the margins of...
made popular Feb 29 2008
I confidently predict that Medvedev will win big and that the OSCE & Co will condemn the election for unbalanced media coverage (something that apparently makes a...
made popular Feb 29 2008
Russian authorities came under renewed attack for election-linked violations ahead of Sunday’s presidential poll in which Kremlin favourite Dmitry Medvedev faces...
made popular Feb 29 2008
Grigory Vylka emerges from his traditional reindeer skin tent, the red sun setting over the vast expanse of snow, as a pair of election officials pull up outside on...
made popular Feb 29 2008
Russia’s presidential election came under new attack Friday from a Western democracy watchdog, as President Vladimir Putin warned in a major speech that his...
made popular Feb 29 2008
Europe’s largest vote-monitoring organization says it is cancelling plans to monitor Russia’s upcoming presidential election because of restrictions Moscow...
made popular Feb 29 2008
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, right, places a wreath at the tomb of former Finnish President Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, during a visit to the Hietaniemi cemetery in Helsinki, Finland, Tuesday, April 21, 2009. Medvedev and his wife are on a two-day.
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