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Russia’s spies must learn from betrayal: Medvedev (Reuters)

November 12th, 2010

A billboard with a view of Moscow's Kremlin reflects in a puddle as Muscovites walk past it in the centre of Moscow in 2006. A top Russian spy turned double agent helped Washington crack a major Moscow spy ring that sparked the worst post-Cold War espionage crisis between the two countries, media and a lawmaker said Thursday.(AFP/File/Denis Sinyakov)Reuters - President Dmitry Medvedev told Russia’s once mighty spy agency on Friday to put its house in order after a senior spymaster betrayed a network of agents to the…

Russian president pardons 4 spies for swap with US (AP)

July 8th, 2010

FILE - This undated file image taken from the Russian social networking website 'Odnoklassniki', or Classmates, shows a woman journalists have identified as Anna Chapman, who appeared at a hearing Monday, June 28, 2010 in New York federal court. Chapman, along with 10 others, was arrested on charges of conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government without notifying the U.S. attorney general. The caption on Odnoklassniki reads 'Russia, Moscow. London, Stone age.' (AP Photo, File) NO SALESAP - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed a decree pardoning four convicted foreign spies so they can be exchanged for 10 people accused of spying for Russia in the…

Medvedev: New technologies would open access (AP)

June 23rd, 2010

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev smiles during a speech at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., Wednesday, June 23, 2010. Medvedev is in California for a two-day visit to Silicon Valley. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says his country is open for business and welcomes new partnerships with the West.


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Russian president boosts ties on visit to Ukraine (AP)

May 17th, 2010

AP - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev visited Ukraine on Monday, where he oversaw the signing of several cooperation deals with the new Moscow-friendly leadership.

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Russian president on trade mission to Argentina (AP)

April 14th, 2010

Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev,left, shakes hands with Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner at the government palace in Buenos Aires, Wednesday, April 14, 2010. Medvedev is on a one-day visit to Argentina. (AP Photo/ Eduardo Di Baia)AP - Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday used the first-ever visit by a Russian president to Argentina to urge the countries to boost economic ties and cooperate more on nuclear energy.


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Obama, Medvedev sign treaty to cut nuclear arms (AP)

April 8th, 2010

President Barack Obama waves as he arrives at Prague Ruzyne Airport in Prague Thursday, April 8, 2010. President Obama is in Prague to sign the New START treaty with Russian president Dmitry Medvedev.(AP Photo/Radek Petrasek, CTK) **SLOVAKIA OUT**AP - Reaching anew for peace, President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday signed a treaty to shrink their nations’ nuclear arsenals, the biggest such pact between…

Report: Moscow bomber was teen widow of militant (AP)

April 2nd, 2010

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, right, and officials observe a minute of silence for victims of this week's suicide bombings, in Mahachkala, the capital of Dagestan, a province in Russia's volatile North Caucasus, Thursday, April 1, 2010. Medvedev made a surprise visit to the violence-wracked southern province of Dagestan, telling authorities to use tougher, 'more cruel' measures to fight terrorism. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)AP - A 17-year-old widow of a slain Islamist rebel was one of the two female suicide bombers who attacked Moscow’s subway, a leading Russian newspaper reported Friday, as President…

Reports: Medvedev proposes tougher terrorism laws (AP)

April 2nd, 2010

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, right, and officials observe a minute of silence for victims of this week's suicide bombings, in Mahachkala, the capital of Dagestan, a province in Russia's volatile North Caucasus, Thursday, April 1, 2010. Medvedev made a surprise visit to the violence-wracked southern province of Dagestan, telling authorities to use tougher, 'more cruel' measures to fight terrorism. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)AP - President Dmitry Medvedev is quoted as saying laws must be toughened for terrorist accomplices, regardless of their level of involvement, after 39 people were killed in double suicide…

Russia’s Medvedev promises ‘crueler’ measures (AP)

April 1st, 2010

Dmitry Medvedev chairs a Security Council meeting at the Gorki residence outside Moscow on Wednesday, March 31, 2010. President Dmitry Medvedev, who recently said the militants had spread through the North Caucasus 'like a cancerous tumor', this year appointed a deputy prime minister to oversee the troubled region and address the root causes of terrorism, including dire poverty and corruption.(AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)AP - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has made a surprise visit to the violence-wracked southern province of Dagestan, telling authorities to use tougher, “more cruel” measures to fight terrorism.


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Medvedev: Iran sanctions may be needed (AP)

March 27th, 2010

AP - Imposing more sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program is not the best option, but it cannot be excluded, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Saturday.

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