Dmitry Medvedev
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Medvedev was elected president in the 2008 election. He was seen as more liberal than his predecessor Vladimir Putin, who was prime minister in Medvedev's presidency. Medvedev's agenda as president was a wide-ranging modernisation programme, aimed at modernising Russia's economy and society, and lessening the country's reliance on oil and gas. During Medvedev's tenure, the United States and Russia signed the New START nuclear arms reduction treaty. Russia won the Russo-Georgian War, and recovered from the Great Recession. Medvedev also launched an anti-corruption campaign, yet was later being accused of corruption himself.
He served a single term in office and was succeeded by Putin following the 2012 presidential election. Putin then appointed Medvedev as prime minister. He resigned along with the rest of the government on 15 January 2020 to allow Putin to make sweeping constitutional changes and was succeeded by Mikhail Mishustin on 16 January 2020. Putin appointed Medvedev the same day to the new office of deputy chairman of the Security Council.
To some analysts, Medvedev's presidency seemed to promise positive changes both at home and in ties with the West, signaling "the possibility of a new, more liberal period in Russian politics". Since the lead up to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, he has adopted increasingly hawkish and anti-Western positions, and has repeatedly threatened the use of nuclear weapons in a break with his previous image as a moderate subordinate to Putin. According to analysts, he has limited influence in the Kremlin.
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1by Ekaterina Samylovskaya, Regina-Elizaveta Kudryavtseva, Dmitriy Medvedev, Sergey Grinyaev, Alfred NordmannGet access
Published in Resources (2020)
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3by Maxim Degtyarev, Ruslan Saifutdinov, Daniil Korobushkin, Alexander Bastrakov, Margarita Danilova, Ivan Davydov, Anastasia Gorbunova, Polina Guseva, Evgeniy Karlik, Roza Koshchanova, Ksenia Kuznetsova, Iurii Lebedev, Dmitriy Medvedev, Roman Obolenskiy, Anna Popova, Nina Pronina, Leonid Rybalov, Alexei Surov, Akmal Tadzhimov, Alexander Tarasov, Vladislav Vasiliev, Andrey Zaitsev, Elena Zvychaynaya, Konstantin GongalskyGet access
Published in Biodiversity Data Journal (2024)
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