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	Dmitry Medvedev - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Medvedev graduated from Leningrad State University in 1987 with a law degree and in 1990 got a PhD with a specialization in private law.
		Dmitry Medvedev became one of the politicians most close to the President Putin and during the 2000 elections when he was head of the presidential election campaign headquarters.
		Dmitry Medvedev is known as a moderate liberal programatic, able administrator and Putin's loyalist.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dmitry_Medvedev (371 words)

	RUSNET :: Encyclopedia :: M :: Medvedev, Dmitry
		Dmitry Medvedev, who was named head of the presidential administration on October 30, 2003, after the resignation of Aleksandr Voloshin, was born in Leningrad (see St Petersburg)in 1965.
		In June 2000, Medvedev was elected chairman of the board of Gazprom, replacing Viktor Chernomyrdin.
		In the next breath, Medvedev implied he was joking about the "asymmetrical response." But on 4 March 2000, Putin's campaign headquarters issued a statement accusing some media of a "tendentious approach" and "one-sidedness" in covering Putin, mentioning by name "Segodnya," the now-defunct newspaper belonging to oligarch Vladimir Gusinsky's Media-MOST.
	www.rusnet.nl /encyclo/m/medvedev_dmitry.shtml (615 words)

	Russian Administrative Reform - Johnson's Russia List 5-7-03 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Dmitry Medvedev: These drafts are connected with the activity of the concrete ministries and departments as well as with the federal state officials, working there.
		Dmitry Medvedev: There is a significant part of the officials that have to resort to different unlawful forms of providing of their financial interests.
		Dmitry Medvedev: The main task of the reform is not that.
	www.cdi.org /russia/Johnson/7171-12.cfm (1423 words)

	Pravda.RU:Head of Putin's 2000 election HQ appointed new chief of presidential administration (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Dmitry Medvedev's appointment to the post of chief of the presidential administration was forecast back three and a half years ago, immediately after Vladimir Putin was elected Russia's President.
		A St. Petersburg native, Medvedev headed Putin's election HQ in 2000, that is, he was really the closest member of the new Russian leader's team.
		Besides, as the first deputy administration chief, Medvedev also performed the functions of the chief in case Alexander Voloshin was away, signed labour contracts, as well as contractor's agreements, on behalf of the administration, ensured the preparation and observation of the President's schedule.
	english.pravda.ru /main/2003/10/31/50919_.html (547 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Five facts about Dmitry Medvedev
		MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday promoted his chief of staff Dmitry Medvedev to the high-profile post of first deputy prime minister, putting him in a strong position to be presidential successor in 2008.
		Medvedev started out in politics in the early 1990s in the ranks of former St Petersburg mayor Anatoly Sobchak's team alongside Putin where he had a low-key role.
		Medvedev is also chairman of Russian gas monopoly Gazprom, the world's largest producer of natural gas.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20051114-0747-russia-medvedev-factbox.html (263 words)

	Official Warns Russia May Collapse
		Analysts said the rare public comments by Dmitry Medvedev, a powerful member of Putin's inner circle, appeared to be an attempt to bolster the authority of Putin's administration.
		Medvedev appeared to be trying to win over people who might potentially support popular uprisings similar to those that toppled longtime rulers in the ex-Soviet republics of Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan, Bunin said.
		Medvedev's statements were a "scream for help" by a Kremlin weakened by recent embarrassments in foreign and domestic policy, he said - among them in Ukraine, where the Kremlin backed a candidate in elections that were tainted by fraud and eventually led to Western-leaning opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko gaining the presidency.
	www.infowars.com /articles/world/russia_official_warns_collapse.htm (518 words)

	Russia, Government, Disintegration - JRL 4-6-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Kremlin's chief of staff, Dmitry Medvedev, is warning that Russia risks disintegration as a state unless the country's elites rally around the government.
		Medvedev's dramatic comments, which he made in an interview to a Russian magazine, are eliciting much speculation about why the Kremlim is feeling so anxious.
		While Medvedev calls for greater unity and preventing instability, many commentators note that it is in fact the Kremlin that has done the most recently to destabilize the country.
	www.cdi.org /russia/Johnson/9112-10.cfm (1005 words)

	The Moscow News
		Dmitry Medvedev graduated from the St. Petersburg University School of Law in 1987, pursuing a post-graduate course of studies, defending a dissertation, and taking up a teaching position at the University.
		Medvedevs name came up in 1999 when Putin appointed him deputy chief of the government staff and then deputy chief of the presidential staff.
		Whether Dmitry Kozak will be able to do something in his new position depends on why exactly he was appointed to it - to implement some progressive ideas or just as a "buttonhole flower," designed to show the liberal public that not everything has been lost yet.
	english.mn.ru /english/issue.php?2003-43-5 (900 words)

	Kommersant: The Kremlin Distribution
		Medvedev's deputies: silovik (i.e., a member of one of the “forces”) Igor Sechin and member of the “family” group Vladislav Surkov.
		This post, which Dmitry Kozak held until he departed to the government, was abolished in March and the powers of the first deputy head were distributed among the head of the administration and two of his ordinary deputies.
		Dmitry Medvedev also worked with Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg, but he still obviously inferior to his predecessor Aleksandr Voloshin in his administrative skills.
	www.kommersant.com /page.asp?id=469174 (1189 words)

	Gazprom
		Dmitry A. Medvedev was born on September 14, 1965, in Leningrad.
		Medvedev was appointed Deputy Chief of Staff of the Government of the Russian Federation in 1999.
		Medvedev was Chairman of the Board of Directors, Gazprom, from 2000 to 2001, and Deputy Chairman of the Board in 2001-2002.
	www.gazprom.ru /eng/articles/article8822.shtml (208 words)

	صفحة جديدة 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov was appointed a deputy prime minister and Dmitry Medvedev, previously head of the presidential administration, was made first deputy prime minister in the reshuffle, a statement said.
		Medvedev, once a law professor at Saint Petersburg University where Putin studied, is seen as representing another government group made up of officials, mainly trained as lawyers, from the president’s native city.
		Medvedev and Ivanov “want to be seen as large-scale state players,” Petrov said, mentioning the possibility that Medvedev could soon replace Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov.
	www.omanobserver.com /15/World/World2.htm (267 words)

	RUSNET :: CIS Today :: 2003/11/03 :: Medvedev Was Waiting in the Wings
		Medvedev, 38, is perhaps best known as the man behind the ongoing overhaul of Russia's bureaucracy, the head of Putin's presidential election team in 2000 and the man who, as board chairman of Gazprom, engineered the ousting of former CEO Rem Vyakhirev in a single marathon meeting in 2001.
		Medvedev's appointment as Gazprom board chairman in the summer of 2000 was seen as a victory for the Kremlin as it sought to rein in the asset-stripping excesses of the company's old guard and it helped pave the way for Vyakhirev's ouster in the pivotal May 2001 board meeting.
		Medvedev may not be the most colorful character in Putin's inner circle, but Vladimir Pribylovsky, head of the Panorama think tank, said this may change with time.
	www.rusnet.nl /news/2003/11/03/currentaffairs08.shtml (1034 words)

	Kommersant: President Protected from Economic Downturn
		However, it was not the president who conducted the meeting yesterday but Dmitry Medvedev, the head of his administration.
		Dmitry Medvedev's debut as a macroeconomist came at a difficult time.
		According to this logic, Dmitry Medvedev should have invited not only government officials, but also those who until recently were generally called oligarchs to the Kremlin.
	www.kommersant.com /page.asp?id=523878 (873 words)

	ISN Security Watch - Putin hints at 'heirsâ in cabinet reshuffle
		Political commentators often named Medvedev and Ivanov as the most probable candidates to takeover from Putin, but noted that the former was almost unknown to general public, while the second lacked influence in the government.
		Appointing Medvedev as the deputy head of the presidential administration was among Putinâs first moves after becoming acting president in December 1999, when then-president Boris Yeltsin announced his retirement.
		âMedvedev is potentially the main candidate, and Ivanov is a backup in case something goes wrong, given that there is a lot of time ahead,â Alexei Makarkin, a political analyst with the Center for Political Technologies, told ISN Security Watch on Tuesday.
	www.isn.ethz.ch /news/sw/details.cfm?ID=13536 (1537 words)

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		Voloshin's exit and Medvedev's entry have to be seen in the light of this turf battle within the Kremlin.
		Interestingly, Medvedev is not a secret service man and is reformist in his outlook, though he is part of the St. Petersburg faction.
		On the other hand, Medvedev, in a bid to mollify rising international concern, censured the prosecutors, saying that they should think twice on the economic impact of their actions.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=20031205000305700.htm&date=fl2024/&prd=fline& (1583 words)

	Kremlin chief eyes YUKOS moves (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		DMITRY MEDVEDEV, appointed last week, also said it was not clear to him whether the freezing by prosecutors of a major stake in YUKOS, three days after its head was arrested, had been an effective measure.
		Medvedev’s appointment followed the resignation of longstanding chief of staff Alexander Voloshin, thought to have been sympathetic to YUKOS chief executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russia’s wealthiest man.
		Medvedev, 38, said law enforcement authorities were “a very serious instrument and generate a strong reaction in various spheres and their activity could give rise to some sort of administrative frenzy.
	www.msnbc.com /news/mobilechannel/986957.asp?s=COM (310 words)

	Aljazeera.Net - Putin sacks top aide over Yukos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		A quiet power behind the Kremlin throne for over four years, Voloshin is replaced by his former first deputy Dmitry Medvedev, who oversaw economic affairs in the presidential administration, the Kremlin statement said.
		A former administrator in Putin's native city of Saint Petersburg, Medvedev, 37, currently serves as chairman of the board of directors of the state-dominated natural gas giant Gazprom, one of Russia's most powerful companies.
		Medvedev was appointed to the Kremlin staff in 1999, becoming Voloshin's first deputy in June 2000, three months after Putin was sworn in as president.
	english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/E954B493-EC02-41F8-9B10-45ABD543C49A.htm (438 words)

	Story of the Day / PressPATROL / Media Monitoring Agency WPS
		Say, Medvedev was on a vacation in the Moscow region on November 12, unaware that anything was in the wind, and Sobyanin was offered the post of director of the presidential administration at a meeting with the president in Sochi on November 13.
		Either Medvedev takes over the government and the presidential administration, or the relations between the two (the Cabinet vs the presidential administration, that is) are based on the principles of actual rivalry.
		Gazprom CEO Medvedev is the leader of one, Rosneft CEO (and deputy director of the presidential administration) Igor Sechin is the leader of the other.
	www.wps.ru /en/products/pp/story/2005/05/05.html (1530 words)

	Forbes.com: Putin's new chief of staff is no "Grey Cardinal" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		But Dmitry Medvedev, 38, lacks the experience and political skills of his predecessor, Alexander Voloshin, who was known as the "Grey Cardinal" for his mastery of Kremlin intrigue, analysts said on Friday.
		Medvedev's appointment reassured some business leaders who feared that Putin, a former KGB spy, would choose one of the Kremlin hawks, who hail from the security services and seek to reassert the state's authority over business.
		"Medvedev is more likely to take on the role of efficient apparatchik, ensuring the state machinery runs smoothly, the president has the support he needs and that reforms tick along; in other words, we are likely to see a less political and more efficient Kremlin," it said.
	www.forbes.com /newswire/2003/10/31/rtr1130946.html (589 words)

	ViewsWire
		It does not, however, mean that the new first deputy prime minister, the relatively liberal Dmitry Medvedev, can yet be considered the succession favourite—he has much to prove and there is plenty of time for other candidates to emerge.
		Mr Medvedev moves from the Kremlin, where he is the presidential administration’s chief of staff, to be first deputy prime minister in the government.
		The fact that Mr Medvedev has been appointed to the senior position implies that he is ahead of Mr Ivanov in the race for the presidency.
	www.viewswire.com /index.asp?layout=VWArticleVW3&article_id=549588840 (1094 words)

	Peace and Conflict Monitor
		By elevating Dmitry Medvedev, a St. Petersburg technocrat, to his chief of staff, President Vladimir Putin has prevented the siloviki from becoming virtually the sole players in his administration and will thus retain his position as ultimate powerbroker.
		Medvedev, 38, and Kozak, 44, graduated from the same St. Petersburg law school as Putin and worked with him in the St. Petersburg city administration in the early 1990s.
		Medvedev and Kozak will be able only to limit, not match, the political clout of the siloviki group, which is led by deputy heads of the presidential administration Viktor Ivanov and Igor Sechin, according to Vladimir Pribylovsky, head of the Panorama think tank.
	www.monitor.upeace.org /archive.cfm?id_article=107 (2399 words)

	Rosbalt.RU - printer friendly version (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Mr Kropachev said it was a serious blow for the law faculty as Mr Medvedev was an expert on law and was a wonderful teacher.
		Mr Kropachev also stressed that Mr Medvedev is a recognized statesman and, together with Dmitry Kozak, he could help to bring the legal reform in government, which Russia has been needing for centuries.
		I am convinced that Mr Medvedev and Mr Kozak are representatives of the genuine Russian intelligentsia.
	www.rosbaltnews.com /print/print?cn=64569 (382 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Europe / Official warns infighting could splinter Russia
		Medvedev appeared to be trying to win over people who might potentially support popular uprisings similar to those that toppled longtime rulers in the former Soviet republics of Georgia, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan, Bunin said.
		Nikolai Petrov, a political analyst at the Carnegie Moscow Center, said Medvedev was trying to shift attention away from the Kremlin's unfilled promises -- increased economic growth, foremost among them.
		Medvedev's statements were a ''scream for help" by a Kremlin weakened by recent embarrassments in foreign and domestic policy, Petrov said -- among them in Ukraine, where the Kremlin backed a candidate in elections that were tainted by fraud and eventually led to Western-leaning opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko gaining the presidency.
	www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2005/04/05/official_warns_infighting_could_splinter_russia?mode=PF (406 words)

	RUSSIAN PERSONNEL CHANGES TO AFFECT FAR EAST REGION - Eurasia Daily Monitor
		When Putin promoted his chief of staff, Dmitry Medvedev, to the post of first deputy prime minister on November 14, the change sparked intense speculation that a succession scenario is under way.
		Medvedev is set to become a "shadow prime minister," and he may well become the president's successor, Izvestiya commented on November 15.
		But while Medvedev had pledged that the Pacific oil pipeline plans would be finalized by May 1, the blueprint is still not complete, suggesting that Medvedev's clout over the country's energy sectors has its limits.
	www.jamestown.org /edm/article.php?article_id=2370492 (1007 words)

	Putin promotes two in cabinet shakeup - Boston.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		At a cabinet meeting shown on television station NTV, Putin said Ivanov's appointment was aimed at overcoming a lack of coordination among ministries.
		Putin also named his chief of staff Dmitry Medvedev to become first deputy prime minister.
		Both Medvedev and Ivanov have been seen as potential candidates to run for president in 2008, when Putin is constitutionally prevented from seeking a third term.
	www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2005/11/14/putin_names_defense_minister_as_deputy (573 words)

	Politicians discuss resignation of Putin"s aide - Russian News - News From Russia
		Dmitry Kozak was appointed Senior Deputy Chief of Staff, and Igor Shuvalov was appointed Deputy Chief of Staff.
		According to him, Dmitry Medvedev “represents a new trend while Alexander Voloshin is a good manager but from a somewhat old epoch".
		Konstantin Kosachev, deputy head of the Fatherland-All Russia faction in the State Duma, said that the resignation of Alexander Voloshin and the appointment of Dmitry Medvedev was a normal process of personnel replacement, like in any other organization.
	www.gateway2russia.com /art.php?artid=162070&rubid= (630 words)

	BakuTODAY.net - Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Caspian news, links, maps etc.
		Kocharian was cited by his press service as telling Dmitry Medvedev that Russian-Armenian business ties are seeing “dynamic development.” He said it was made possible by an increase in Russian investments in the Armenian economy.
		Officials said Medvedev, who is one of the most powerful figures in the Kremlin hierarchy, also discussed the ongoing series of cultural events held within the framework of the Year of Russia in Armenia that was officially inaugurated during Putin’s visit to Yerevan last March.
		Medvedev is the head of the Russian organizing committee for those events.
	www.bakutoday.net /view.php?d=13545 (545 words)

	Russian Liberals Criticize Putin’s Reshuffle - NEWS - MOSNEWS.COM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Medvedev, the former Kremlin chief of staff, was appointed first deputy prime minister on Monday.
		The leader of the nationalist Motherland party, Dmitry Rogozin, said he was sure that Medvedev would be Putin’s successor.
		He might have found that it was impossible to do so within the administration’s framework in contrast to the government, so he introduced two of his men as deputy PMs,” she said.
	www.mosnews.com /news/2005/11/14/liberalcritics.shtml (741 words)

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