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Dmitry Medvedev
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Somebody should be extremely punctual, while somebody else is exhausting all the limits for being late.
— "Dmitry Medvedev muses on aliens and Vladimir Putin's lateness", The Telegraph, 8 December 2012
Dmitry Medvedev
President of Russia from 2008 to 2012, Prime Minister of Russia (2012-2020) and Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of Russia since 2020
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Born 1965 · age 61
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He held Russia's presidency for four years between Putin's terms, pitched as the liberal reformer who might soften the state — then slid back to deputy chairman of the Security Council and adopted rhetoric so aggressively anti-Western that analysts read it as audition tape for succession.
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Born 14 September 1965, Medvedev came up as a lawyer before winning the presidency in the 2008 election, where he was seen as more liberal than Vladimir Putin, who stepped into the prime minister's role during Medvedev's term. He pushed a modernisation programme to wean Russia off oil-and-gas dependence, oversaw recovery from the Great Recession, signed the New START nuclear arms treaty with the United States, and launched an anti-corruption campaign — though he would later face corruption accusations himself. His presidency also saw the Russo-Georgian War. After a single term he was succeeded…
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Dmitry Medvedev
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Freedom is a unique concept that everyone interprets differently.
— "Medvedev's legacy in Russia: Small victories in Putin's shadows", European Dialogue (4 May 2012)
Dmitry Medvedev
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Winemaking is one of the branches that should be developed and contribute to the eradication of alcoholism.
— "Medvedev says that Russians need good wine and not vodka", Commonspace.eu, 23 August 2011
Dmitry Medvedev
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We are absolutely sure that, without urgent modernisation, the Russian economy has no future, even with the enormous natural resources Russia has.
— Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev sums up results of the year (24 December 2009)
Dmitry Medvedev
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Instead of the primitive raw material economy, we will create a smart economy generating unique knowledge, new useful things and technologies.
— Dmitry Medvedev in a speech (November 2009)
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