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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Thursday said India would seek to substantially expand bilateral trade with Russia from the current $8.5 billion, while enhancing ties in a host of areas such as defence, energy, space technology and health.
Ahead of his departure for Moscow Thursday for the annual India-Russia Summit at the invitation of President Dmitry Medvedev , the prime minister said his talks with the Kremlin...Read Full Story
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Russia is the world's sixth largest economy, President Dmitry Medvedev said in his state of the nation address Thursday.
"We have successfully overcome a very difficult period of economic shocks and returned to the pre-crisis figures of development. Russia has become the sixth largest economy in the world," Medvedev told both houses of Russia's parliament.
"The economy is growing at a good pace, nearly four...Read Full Story
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Complaints of irregularities in Russia's parliamentary elections need to be investigated but videos purporting to show fraud were not incontestable proof of cheating, President Dmitry Medvedev has said.
"As is customary following release of voting results, there must naturally be a judgement made on all violations" claimed during the vote, Medvedev said Tuesday.
However, the appearance of videos on various...Read Full Story
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev 's account at the country's largest social networking site Vkontakte has gained one million followers in the 24 hours or so since it was set up.
Medvedev created his profile at Vkontakte Wednesday, several hours prior to an informal meeting with Russian bloggers.
The president's profile says his interests are: "work, family, sports, internet" and favourite music is "hard-rock...Read Full Story
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President Dmitry Medvedev Monday said Russia would spend unprecedented sums on new weaponry.
“Make no doubt about it, we will continue equipping the army,” he said.
“We have significant, unprecedented, large amounts of money to that end,” he said during a meeting with army servicemen in southern Russia's Vladikavkaz.
The Russian government has pledged 22 trillion rubles ($730 billion) for its state arms...Read Full Story
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Russia’s police must “react immediately” to any voter grumbles at next month’s presidential polls.
“Elections are a time of intense work,”
This pride, however, may have gone a little too far. A few months ago, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced that he and President Dmitry Medvedev would nonchalantly ‘swap' roles, thrusting Putin into a leadership position for potentially the next 12 years.
MOSCOW, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Friday that reform has done much to purge corruption and abuse from the country's police force.
The president said further change needs to be gradual, RIA Novosti reported, with the Interior...
MOSCOW. Feb 10 (Interfax) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed a decree dismissing Mikhail Sukhodolsky, the chief of the Interior Ministry department for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region, the Kremlin press service told Interfax on Friday.
Nesterets' conviction came just days after Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told an FSB meeting that foreign governments were stepping up their spying activities in the country. Medvedev said the FSB had uncovered 199 foreign spies and agents last year.
BERLIN : Russian President Dmitry Medvedev arrived in Germany on Thursday, making his first Western trip since succeeding Vladimir Putin at a time when the European Union and Russia are preparing to start much-delayed talks on a new strategic ...
Dmitry Medvedev was born in Bryansk in a steelworker's family. During the Russian Civil War joined the Red Army and in 1920 he joined the All-Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)