Dmitri Medvedev

24/12/2011 - Russia

Tens of thousands expected in new protests in Moscow

Opposition protests in Russia over the alleged rigging of 4 December elections are expected to attract tens of thousands on Saturday.

04/12/2011 - Russia

Russia goes to the polls in popularity test for Putin

Russians are voting in legislative elections with the United Russia party of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin again expected to win the majority in the State Duma parliament but with fewer seats.

06/10/2011 - United States

Obama, Gates, Medvedev pay tribute to Steve Jobs

Countless people around the world have joined presidents and business leaders in paying tribute to Steve Jobs, the founder of the Apple computer company, who died on Wednesday.

27/09/2011 - World news explained

President Putin again?

The Russian prime minister, Vladimir Putin, has declared that he is to run again for the Presidency - in elections due next Spring.

30/08/2011 - World news explained

Russia starts roll towards presidential elections

The Russian president Dmitry Medvedev says parliamentary elections will be held on 4 December.

12/08/2011 - Libya - Russia

Russia signs Libya sanctions as rebels advance

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed a decree toughening sanctions on Libya, five months after the UN Security Council imposed them.

Bonner (L) with her husband Sakharov in 1986

19/06/2011 - United States-Russia

Sakharov's widow Bonner dies in the US

Soviet dissident Yelena Bonner, the widow of Nobel Peace Prize winner Andrei Sakharov, has died at her home in the US aged 88.

17/06/2011 - France - Russia

France, Russia sign long-awaited Mistral sale

Russia on Friday signed a contract with France worth over a billion euros to buy two French Mistral-class warships.

16/06/2011 - Libya

Libyan labour minister defects as Merkel, Obama meet

Libyan Labour Minister al-Amin Manfur announced his defection at the annual meeting of the International Labour Organisation in Geneva, Libya's UN mission said on Tuesday, as Nato pounded Tripoli ...

26/04/2011 - Russia-Ukraine

Medvedev and Yanukovych remember Chernobyl victims

Russian President Dmitri Medvedev has made the first visit by a Russian head of state to the site of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the world's ...