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10 unusual facts about Dmitry Medvedev


28th Guards Rocket Division

There were plans to disband the entire division by 2010, but on November 5, 2008 President Dmitry Medvedev during his speech at the joint session of Russia's Parliament announced that the 28th Division will resume its mission.

Alekseyev v. Russia

The Applicant then submitted a raft of other proposals, including one to the recently elected President of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, stating his intention to hold a march in the Alexander Garden on 31 May 2008, to which he received no reply.

EP20

The first of the production series of the EP20 was official handed over in late 2012, at a ceremony attended by Dmitry Medvedev, and high officials of Alstom, Transmashholding, RZD and V. Golubev, Governor of the Rostov region.

Guča Trumpet Festival

In 2010 the organizers issued an official call to the presidents of Russia and U.S., Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama, and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, to attend the 50th anniversary event.

Joint Council on International Children's Services

In April 2010, after an American mother put her unwanted 7-year-old Russian-adopted son on a plane alone to Russia, Joint Council organized a petition to Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev with over 11,000 signatures discouraging Russia from freezing its international adoption program.

RAF Menwith Hill

During the 2009 G-20 London Summit NSA intercept specialists based at Menwith Hill attempted to target and decode the encrypted telephone calls of the Russian president Dmitry Medvedev.

Russian presidential aircraft

In 2010, the third president, Dmitry Medvedev announced that he wanted to expand the presidential fleet with two more aircraft, manufactured by the Voronezh Aircraft Plant.

Russky Bridge

The bridge was completed in July 2012 and opened by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.

St. Petersburg International Legal Forum

The plenary session "Law as an Instrument of Innovative and Secure Development of the Global World" was also attended by the President of Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev, former Chancellor of Germany Gerhard Schröder and Minister of Justice of Russian Federation Alexander Konovalov.

Telkom-3

This triggered discussion on the crisis in the Russian space industry with Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev quoted as saying "We are losing authority and billions of rubles" due to the frequent launch failures.


Cannabis coffee shop

Depicted are Queen Elizabeth II, Queen Beatrix, Hu Jintao, Dmitry Medvedev, Barack Obama, Angela Merkel and Silvio Berlusconi.

Lyudmila Narusova

Lyudmila Narusova is the widow of Anatoly Sobchak (1937—2000), who was a prominent Russian politician, mentor and teacher of both Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev, and the mother of Kseniya Sobchak (born 1981), who is a celebrity widely known in Russia as a presenter on the reality show Dom-2 and other TV-shows.

Russia–Ukraine relations

On 11 August 2009, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev posted a videoblog on the Kremlin.ru website, and the official Kremlin LiveJournal blog, in which he attacked Viktor Yushchenko, for what Medvedev claims is the Ukrainian President's responsibility in the souring of Russia–Ukraine relations and "the anti-Russian position of the current Ukrainian authorities".

Russian Direct Investment Fund

RDIF was created in June 2011 under the leadership of both President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as part of a broader initiative to improve the investment climate of Russia and establish Moscow as an international financial center.

Rustem Adagamov

In 2009 Kremlin's press department had invited him to cover Wednesday's meeting between Dmitry Medvedev and his visiting Indian counterpart Pratibha Patil.

South Stream

Russian President (then First Deputy Prime Minister) Dmitry Medvedev and former Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány have stated that there is no contradiction between South Stream and the Nabucco pipeline project, designated to bring Caspian (Azerbaijani) gas to Southern and Central Europe via Turkey.

Stanislav Belkovsky

Belkovsky since he has been actively engaged in a campaign to discredit Mikhail Khodorkovsky and is said to be close to Russian Prime Minister and leader of the Kremlin Silovik faction, Igor Sechin who was fighting by this time the growing influence of current president Dmitry Medvedev, seen as more liberal.

Ukrainian cruiser Ukrayina

In April 2010, sources from the Russian defense committee claimed that Russia had plans to buy the unfinished cruiser from Ukraine and in May 2010, after talks with Russian president Dmitry Medvedev in Kiev, Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych stated that they had come to an agreement to finish the ship together.