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Medvedev LiveJournal Blog Invites Pokes From Commentators

Moscow Times | Posted 05.23.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Medvedev, Foreign Affairs, Medvedev Live Journal, Medvedev Livejournal, Dmitry Medvedev, Advocacy, Dmitri Medvedev, World News

Minutes after President Dmitry Medvedev's new LiveJournal blog was opened for comments Wednesday morning, visitors flooded the forum with bawdy commen...

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Russian Oligarchs To Become Government Employees To Avoid Bankruptcy

Russia Magazine | Posted 05.23.2009 | World

Read More: Oleg Deripaska, Russia, Vladimir Putin, Russian Oligarchs, Dmitry Medvedev, World News
Russia Magazine

Amid the financial crisis sweeping through Russia, the oligarchs, the country's financial elite, are faced with a dilemma they did not anticipate a mere year ago: how not to go broke?

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Obama Gets Real and So Should You

Michael B. Laskoff | Posted 05.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Energy, Russia, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, Hugo Chavez, University of Chicago, Iran, Dmitry Medvedev, Barack Obama, Education, Venezuela, Fidel Castro, Vladimir Putin, Cuba, Rolling Stones, Health Care, Neo-Realism, Obama Transition, Politics News
Michael B. Laskoff

For those of us who have waited 8 years for good news, Obama's pragmatism can be frustrating, but it's the right strategy for a realistic president confronted with difficult times.

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Russia Police Conduct Reforms Outlaw 'Indiscriminate Sex', 'Wicked Irony'

Time | Posted 05.18.2009 | World

Read More: Wicked Irony, Russia, Russian Police, Indiscriminate Sex, Russia Police Code of Conduct, Russia Police Reforms, Foreign Affairs, Vladimir Putin, Bribery, Dmitry Medvedev, Advocacy, Russia Police, World News

Police in Russia have long had a reputation for three things: bribery, cruelty and ineptitude. Now the government is determined to change that image b...

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Medvedev Interview: Russian President Breaks From Putin In Landmark Interview With Opposition Newspaper

Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 05.16.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Boris Yeltsin, Foreign Affairs, Kremlin, Dmitry Medvedev, Vladmir Putin, Novaya Gazeta, Anastasia Baburova, Medvedev, Vladimir Putin, The Kremlin, Russian Democracy, Lenin, Putin, Mikhail Gorbachev, Anna Politkovskaya, Soviet Union, Advocacy, Dmitri Medvedev, Putin News, Dmitri MedvéDev, World News

Breaking with the tone established by his predecessor Vladimir Putin, Russian President Dmitri Medvedev stated outright in an interview with a well-kn...

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Putin Earns More Than Medvedev, But Medvedev Owns A Bigger Pad

BBC NEWS | Posted 05.08.2009 | World

Read More: Putin Medvedev Salary, Assets, Russia, Vladimir Putin, Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development, Anti-Corruption Russia, Bribery, Dmitry Medvedev, World News

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin earns 11% more than President Dmitry Medvedev, statements released as part of an anti-corruption drive show....

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Weekly Foreign Affairs Roundup

Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet | Posted 05.04.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Lebanon, Hu Jintao, Hague Summit, Arab Summit, Barack Obama, Dmitry Medvedev, Nicolas Sarkozy, Gordon Brown, G20 Summit, Manmohan Singh, Iraq Security, Angela Merkel, Turkey Summit, Israel, Palestinian Unity Talks, Azerbaijan, Nato Summit, World News
Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet

The Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs:New Israeli Leadership Sounds the Drumbeat to War Facts: Israeli leader Binyamin Netanyahu, leader of the Li...

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What Real Diplomacy Looks Like

Ilan Goldenberg | Posted 05.03.2009 | World

Read More: Gordon Brown, Russia, G20 Summit, Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke, Angela Merkel, Hillary Clinton, Iran, Diplomacy, g20, Dmitry Medvedev, Barack Obama, Nicolas Sarkozy, The Hague-Netherlands, Netherlands, Islamic Republic of Iran, Pakistan, Georgia, Iraq, World News
Ilan Goldenberg

Barack Obama showed up in Europe this week and the world did not simply swoon at his feet. Some may choose to portray that as failure, but they would be dead wrong.

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Medvedev: 'Super Currency' Should Replace Dollar

New York Times | Posted 05.03.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Russia Reserve Currency, China Super Reserve Currency, International Monetary Fund, Reserve Currency, Imf, China Reserve Currency, g20, G-20, Barack Obama, Dmitry Medvedev, Russia Super Currency, Medvedev Super Currency, China Super Currency, Super Currency, World News

So much for that fresh start. Barely 24 hours after announcing that Russia and the United States would cooperate on a host of long-simmering issues, ...

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Medvedev-Obama Meeting A Win For Russia: Analysis

AP | STEVE GUTTERMAN | Posted 05.03.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Dmitry Medvedev, Barack Obama, Obama Medvedev, Medvedev Obama, Vladimir Putin, Obama Russia, US Russia Relations, US-Russian Relations, World News

MOSCOW — President Dmitry Medvedev's first meeting with Barack Obama brought Russia a shot of prestige, upbeat headlines about nuclear-arms cuts...

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Lev Ponomarev, Russian Human Rights Activist, Attacked

Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 05.02.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Lev Ponomarev, Human Rights, For Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Vladimir Putin, Moscow, Russia Human Rights, Dmitry Medvedev, World News

Lev Ponomarev, the leader of the Moscow-based group "For Human Rights," was attacked and brutally beaten Tuesday in what the human rights activist is ...

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Obama, Medvedev Seek New Era In U.S.-Russia Ties

Reuters | Posted 05.01.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Iran, Barack Obama, Dimitri Medvedev, US-Russian Ties, US-Russia Relations, Dmitry Medvedev, NATO Expansion, London-United Kingdom, United Kingdom, World News

LONDON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and President Dmitry Medvedev will hit the restart button on U.S.-Russian ties by agreeing to begin talks on...

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Medvedev Pens Washington Post Op-Ed, Calls For Better Relations

Washington Post | Posted 05.01.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Russia Us Ties, Medvedev Op-Ed, Medvedev Obama, Foreign Affairs, Dmitry Medvedev, Barack Obama, Advocacy, Russia America Talks, World News

It is hard to dispute the pessimistic assessments of the Russian-American relationship that prevailed at the end of last year. Unfortunately, relation...

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Obama, Medvedev To Sign Declaration On Nuclear Arsenals

Reuters | Posted 04.28.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Nuclear Weapons, Us, g20, Barack Obama, Dmitry Medvedev, World News

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and U.S. President Barack Obama will sign a declaration next week committing them to talks on reducing their countr...

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Finding the Reset Button in London

Jeffrey Mankoff | Posted 04.25.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, G20 Summit, Obama Medvedev, Medvedev, Vladimir Putin, Russia g20, g20, G-20, Dmitry Medvedev, London-United Kingdom, United Kingdom, World News
Jeffrey Mankoff

Obama will have to acknowledge a difficult truth -- namely that Russia is not interested in becoming part of the West and believes its interests and those of the West remain distinct.

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Russia 'Concerned' Over Security Of Pakistan's Nukes

Bloomberg | Posted 04.24.2009 | World

Read More: Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation, Russia, Pakistan Nuclear Weapons, Foreign Affairs, Pakistan, George W. Bush, Vladimir Putin, Sergei Ivanov, Dmitry Medvedev, Barack Obama, Advocacy, Pakistan Nuclear Scientists, World News

Russia is "very much concerned" about the safety of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal, and the country must be stabilized before peace can be achieved in nei...

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White House Welcome for Nuclear Disarmament

Steven Crandell | Posted 04.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: White House, Dalai Lama, Nuclear Weapons, Walter Cronkite, President Obama, Russia, US Leadership for a Nuclear Weapons-Free World, Desmond Tutu, Petition, Dmitry Medvedev, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Nuclear Disarmament, Politics News
Steven Crandell

The goal of nuclear disarmament is no longer just a dream. On the contrary, it's now official policy. It's there on the White House website, in both the Homeland Security and Foreign Policy

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Russia's Inflation Could Spur Social Unrest

The Moscow Times | Posted 04.18.2009 | World

Read More: Russian Economy, Russia, Inflation, Foreign Affairs, Petrostate, Russian Inflation, Vladimir Putin, Inflation in Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, Advocacy, World News

Her job is safe and her salary hasn't been cut by a single ruble, yet Svetlana Nikolayeva says she feels the effects of the financial crisis as badly ...

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Russia: US, NATO actions mean new arms are needed

AP | VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV | Posted 04.17.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Russian Nuclear Arsenal, Russian Rearmament, Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Medvedev, Russia Rearms, World News

MOSCOW — Russia's defense minister on Tuesday accused the United States of beefing up its military presence near Russian borders and poaching fo...

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Russia Introduces Rearmament Plan, Including 'Strategic Nuclear Forces'

BBC | Posted 04.17.2009 | World

Read More: Obama Russia, Russia, Foreign Affairs, Russia Rearmament, Russia Nuclear Weapons, Russia Georgia War, Dmitry Medvedev, Vladmir Putin, Russia Nuclear, Medvedev, Vladimir Putin, Russia Military, Putin, Advocacy, Dmitri Medvedev, World News

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has said Moscow will begin a comprehensive military rearmament from 2011....

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Medvedev Sees 'New Page' For U.S.-Russia Ties

AFP | Posted 04.10.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Obama Iran, Barack Obama Iran, Vladimir Putin, Russia Iran, Iran, Russia Iran Nuclear Plant, Barack Obama, Dmitry Medvedev, Russia Iran Weapons, World News

President Dmitry Medvedev Tuesday predicted a "new page" in Russia-US relations under Barack Obama, amid reports Moscow is shelving a missile delivery...

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Spain's Zapatero Internet Star After Verbal Slip (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Jessica Gusman | Posted 04.04.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Spain Prime Minister, Zapatero Medvedev, Zapatero, Russia Spain, Zapatero F-Word, Spain, Dmitry Medvedev, Spain Zapatero, Video, Spain Prime Minister F-Word, Medvedev, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Dmitri Medvedev, Zapatero Video, Zapatero Russia, Zapatero Russian, Zapatero Slip, Zapatero Follar Says, Spain Prime Minister Video, Zapatero Follar, Medvedev Zapatero, World News

Spanish Prime Minister Zapatero became a quick internet star yesterday when he accidentally uttered the F word while giving a news conference with Rus...

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Foreign Policy, Not the Economy, May Define the Obama Presidency

David Paul | Posted 04.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Pakistan, Economic Crisis, President Obama, Hamas, Taliban, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Russia Georgia War, Realism, Dmitry Medvedev, Bashar Al-Assad, Al Qaeda, Foreign Policy, Afghanistan War, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Vladimir Putin, Neoconservatives, Global Financial Crisis, Israel, Syria, Soviet Union, 100 Days, Politics News
David Paul

Even as the Obama administration may be consumed by efforts to stem the recession, we appear to be at a tipping point in foreign affairs.

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Russia Open To Discussing US Plan On Iran

AP | DOUGLAS BIRCH | Posted 04.03.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Iran, United States, Russia-Us-Ties, The Kremlin, Dmitry Medvedev, Medvedev, Barack Obama, President Barack Obama, Missiles, Russia Missiles, Iran Missiles, World News

MOSCOW — Russia's president seemed open Tuesday to discussing a U.S. plan to cancel an anti-missile system in Europe if Russia helps prevent Ira...

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The Kremlin, the Oligarch, and 'The Thaw'

Brian Whitmore | Posted 04.03.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russian Oligarchs, World News
Brian Whitmore

In a trial that begins today, Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev are facing new charges of embezzling and laundering more than $20 billion.

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