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Dmitry Medvedev

Russian Siberian Cats

February 13, 2010

Russian Siberian cats were first imported to the United States in 1990, and despite their relative popularity, they remain a somewhat rare breed in North America. They are the Russian national cat and have been owned by the likes of Mikhail Gorbachev, former president of the USSR as well as Russia’s current president, Dmitry Medvedev.
These [...]

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Medvedev to do topless photo shoot?

March 29, 2009

I love this comment from Dmitry Medvedev’s recent interview with the BBC’s Andrew Marr:
ANDREW MARR: You are planning to come to London soon. And it seems to us that in the West we all know Mr. Putin, we even saw some of his topless photos where he is without a shirt. But we are not [...]

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Medvedev rips into Politkovskaya prosecutors

February 26, 2009

I’m really beginning to enjoy Dmitry Medvedev’s no-nonsense approach to assessing Russia’s weaknesses and to telling people off.
He certainly doesn’t mince words, but what I particularly like is that he doesn’t restrict his criticism to safe, relatively unimportant targets. Take, for example, his lambasting of Russia’s prosecutors following the shambolic trial of [...]

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Medvedev: “We’re rubbish at e-government”

February 18, 2009

It’s nice to see such an honest assessment of Russia’s IT and information infrastructure from Dmitry Medvedev. I think it’s well worth repeating here:
“As for electronic government, today virtually all federal structures are provided with modern computers connected to the Internet. Almost all state agencies have set up a database, but that is all [...]

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Russian President caught playing with black market iPhone

September 20, 2008

Dmitry Medvedev caught on video playing with his black market iPhone during a press conference with French President Sarkozy.

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Russia’s Presidential Election – the Candidates

February 27, 2008

The four men vying to be Russia’s next President – Putin’s Poodle, the Neo-Communist, Mad Vlad, and the liberal Masonic Grandmaster who likes to blog.

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