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29 November 2009 10:57 PM | Tagged: european security treaty to cold war legacy medvedev
MOSCOW - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Sunday unveiled a much-vaunted draft European security treaty which he said would finally end Cold War mentalities, despite a lukewarm reception in the West. Medvedev's proposal will help the world fin

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21 November 2009 5:37 PM | Tagged: medvedev criticises united russia political practices
Russian president Dmitry Medvedev harshly criticised Russia’s hegemonic United Russia political party for allowing dirty election practices at the party’s annual congress in St Petersburg, calling its methods “backwards and saying it must “get rid o

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21 November 2009 11:47 AM | Tagged: russias medvedev raps ruling party elections
ST PETERSBURG, Russia - President Dmitry Medvedev on Saturday criticized regional officials in Russia's ruling party for failing to ensure fully democratic local elections last month. The party must always be modern so as not to grow old, not to b

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15 November 2009 10:27 AM | Tagged: in asia obama medvedev nuclear pact progress
SINGAPORE - Seeking to claim progress during an economic summit with Pacific nations, President Barack Obama on Sunday declared the United States and Russia would have a replacement treaty on nuclear arms cuts in place by the end of the year. A clim

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14 November 2009 8:47 PM | Tagged: obama meet russias medvedev singapore
SINGAPORE With his transcontinental schedule in flux, President Obama rushed to Singapore on Saturday night to catch the tail end of a dinner event he had been slated to miss and to prepare for a full day of economic and diplomatic talks Sunday.We

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13 November 2009 2:17 AM | Tagged: medvedev pitches modern russia warns opposition
MOSCOW - President Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday Russia needed to embrace sweeping reforms to become a modern world power but warned the opposition against sowing chaos in the name of democracy. Medvedev spent much of his 100-minute state of the

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12 November 2009 10:57 PM | Tagged: medvedev calls overhauling russias primitive economy
MOSCOW — Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called Thursday for a bold overhaul of his nation's economy, saying that Russia must remedy its primitive economy and humiliating dependence on raw materials. Medvedev ticked off a long list of ch

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12 November 2009 8:27 PM | Tagged: medvedev offers blunt appraisal state russia
MOSCOW Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called on his country Thursday to shed its humiliating dependence on exports of oil and other raw materials and to adopt a more pragmatic foreign policy aimed at attracting investment and promoting growth.