OTB News (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev plans to replace dozens of regional governors over the next few years in an attempt to increase his influence within officialdom, the Vedomosti newspaper reported on Thursday.
News: Moldova.org: Politics (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Author: David J. Smith* In his G-8 Summit debut, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev stunned his seven colleagues by supporting sanctions on Robert Mugabe’s thuggish regime in Zimbabwe. “We will take further steps, inter alia introducing financial and other measures,” said the July 8 G-8 Summit Statement from Toyako, on the Japanese island of Hokkaido. Then, as the next day’s sun glimmered on beautiful...
"GroundReport (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Posted by Liz Colville to findingDulcinea Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has vowed to eliminate corruption by putting all documents online, but computer literacy among government officials is an obstacle. During a nationally televised meeting on July 17, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said that government officials need to have good computer skills or they will be out of a job. They “either should...
Get Mash (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
MOSCOW — During an eight-year presidency, a portrait of Vladimir Putin hung in the office of just about every Russian official, from the Kremlin to the smallest town hall. The president is the boss, and loyalty demands that a picture of the top man be prominently placed on the wall just over the… Read the full [...]
Once Upon a Time in the West (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
On July 12, 2008 the neo-Soviet leadership convened in an informal atmosphere , with their fishing rods, at Russian "President" Dmitry Medvedev's country residence in Zavidovo, near Moscow. Unlike then President Vladimir Putin's bare-chested, macho-man fishing expedition last year, Russia's otherwise staid communist leaders kept their shirts on. In attendance with Soviet Komsomol graduate Medvedev...
Caracas Chronicles (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Quico says: Here's an innovative take on the budding Chávez-Medvedev lovematch: Neither Medvedev nor Chavez were being very direct about why they are deepenig the relationship, and I find myself in disagreement with other analysts who say that it is only about the business deals. [snip] According to some lawyer colleagues I have spoken with in Venezuela, government officials have paid close attention...
World Affairs Board (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Russia, Venezuela strengthen energy ties Agence France Presse BARVIKHA, Russia - Leading oil and gas producers Russia and Venezuela will coordinate energy policies, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Tuesday after meeting his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez. The talks at Medvedev's residence outside Moscow included discussion of arms deals and resulted in an agreement for three Russian companies...
Once Upon a Time in the West (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
During his seventh trip to Moscow since becoming elected tyrant of Venezuela in 1999, Hugo Chavez submitted a progress report and a weapons shopping list to Russia's KGB-communist dictator Vladimir Putin and rubbed elbows with Putin's mini-me, "President" Dmitry Medvedev. On Tuesday Comrade Hugo called for a strategic alliance between Russia and Venezuela that would protect the latter from "US imperialist"...
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...
Indymedia ireland (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
The Medvedev proposal "The third, and perhaps the most bold and most obvious, Medvedev proposes reshaping the present failed global economic order that was built up after 1944 around a US-dominated International Monetary Fund as a de facto neo-colonial weapon of securing cheap raw materials and imposing North dominance on Africa, Latin America and Asian nations. He proposes instead the North share...
Council on Hemispheric Affairs (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez met yesterday in Moscow with his Russian counterparts Russian President Dimitri Medvédev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. They seemed to enjoy every moment of the occasion, even though it was rather short when it came to hard developments. The encounter was arranged to formalize a military and defense alliance between the [...]
At Home In The Wasteland (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Portrait of a Predicament: Putin's Face, or Medvedev's? Ordinary Russians are also snapping up pictures, according to Maria Valiyeva, who works in a photo shop in central Moscow. "People are buying them for their offices, for presents and for themselves,"...
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...
Sweetness & Light (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
From a delighted Associated Press: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (left) meets with President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez outside Moscow. Chavez passed on a message from Cuban leader Fidel Castro hailing Russia’s greater role in world affairs. Chavez says Venezuela needs Russia for protection By MANSUR MIROVALEV, Associated Press Writer Tue Jul 22 MEIENDORF CASTLE, Russia - Venezuelan President [...]...
