OTB News (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
President Dmitri A. Medvedev criticized the United States and Western Europe for creating a missile defense shield and for recognizing Kosovo’s independence.
Moscow (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Russian President Dmitri Medvedev says his country needs more political competition, but only under continued rule by a strong president. He spoke with journalists representing ...
Democratic Underground (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
Source: [b]International Herald Tribune[/b] MOSCOW: Russia's new president, Dmitri Medvedev, less swaggering than his predecessor but as touchy about criticism from abroad, said in an interview that an America in "essentially a depression" was in no position to lecture other countries on how to con...
The LRC Blog (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
After a meeting with the US Secretary of the Treasury in Moscow on Tuesday, who was in town to beg for money to fund the Global War on Tactics, new Russian President Dmitri Medvedev told reporters that the United States...
News: Moldova.org: Politics (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
The president of the Republic of Moldova Vladimir Voronin addressed to his Russian homologue Dmitri Medvedev a congratulation message on the occasion of the national holiday of Russia. The congratulation message signed by the Moldovan president mentions: During the last years we are all the witnesses of some dynamic changes which took place in the external policy of Russia, its economy and Russian...
China Confidential (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is in Moscow on a two-day trip pursuing arms and energy deals with his Russian counterpart, Dmitri Medvedev. Peter Fedynsky reports that US interests may be affected by closer ties between Moscow and Caracas. Russian President Dmitri Medvedev welcomed his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez with warm words about trade and cultural ties, saying bilateral cooperation between...
The Mess That Greenspan Made (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008
New Russian President Dmitri A. Medvedev must have picked up a copy of Kevin Phillips' new book Bad Money : Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism, a review of which will hopefully be forthcoming here in the week ahead. According to this New York Times report , in his first major economic speech, he said that the world might be headed toward The Greater Depression,...
Free Internet Press (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008
In his first major economic speech since becoming president, Dmitri A. Medvedev said Saturday that the world might be in the throes of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression and that a newly revived Russia could offer solutions to a systemic crisis that has underscored America�s shortcomings. Medvedev, who was inaugurated on May 7, spoke at the St. Petersburg International Economic...
THE iPINIONS JOURNAL (Free subscription) | yesterday
This week, while much of the world was focused on Barack Obama’s tour of Europe and the Middle East, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez was in Moscow doing his best to resuscitate the Cold-War tensions that led to the Cuban Missile crisis, which brought the US and Soviet Union to the brink of war. And he assured the [...]
NU.nl Algemeen Nieuws (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
MOSKOU - De Russische president Dmitri Medvedev heeft de omstreden aanscherping van de mediawet verworpen. De nieuwe bepalingen zouden "een normaal functioneren van de media in de weg staan", aldus Medvedev in een verklaring van het Kremlin, berichtten Moskouse media dinsdag.
Blogging for a free world (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Chinese President Hu Jintao (R) meets with visiting Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, July 21, 2008. Hu said on Monday that the relationship [...]
Diplodemocracia (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela and President Dmitri A. Medvedev of Russia declared on Tuesday that their countries would more closely coordinate their actions on global oil and gas markets and that they would work together on foreign policy, a sphere in which both countries have sought to counter American influence ( full information )/ el presidente Hugo Chávez de Venezuela y el presidente Dmitri...
The Latin Americanist (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is in Moscow today to discuss some $1 billion arms contracts with the Russian President, Dmitri A. Medvedev. Deals with Russia may include expanding Russia's oil and gas presence in Latin America and becoming "strategic partners" against the threat of America against Venezuela. Both countries expressed the desire to have closer diplomatic ties but progress has been...
Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Here’s an interesting piece of modern Russian legal history: In 2006, oil company Yukos, once Russia’s largest private company, was re-nationalized by then-President Vladimir Putin — a move that many saw as retribution for the counter-Kremlin political activities of Yukos chairman Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Whatever the reason, Khodorkovsky sat in a Siberian jail while his company [...]
Edward Lucas (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
Russia sees us as pawns on its chessboard By Edward Lucas So now we know: the "new Russia" of Dmitri Medvedev looks very like the old one of Vladimir Putin. Consider the events of the past week. MI5 accused its Russian counterpart of murder; in return, Russian media "unmasked" a senior UK diplomat as a spy. Britain's largest company, BP, came closer to losing its flagship investment in Russia. The...
