Mr. Dmitry Vladimirovich Nikolaev (Russian Federation)

Mr. Dmitry Vladimirovich Nikolaev (Russian Federation).

But that post was taken by another close Putin ally, Dmitry Medvedev.

Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev at Diaoyutai State Guesthouse on November 1.

They are paying tribute to the millions of soldiers and civilians who perished. Two days ago in this Hall, we paid that tribute through the wonderful music of the Leningrad Symphony of Dmitry Shostakovich.

Russia's athletics boss Dmitry Shylakhtin told an IAAF Congress, held on the eve of the World Athletics Championships, that his country's ban from the sport was correct and that he was determined to fight doping.

Recently, during a dive in the waters at Krasnodar, in southern Russia, Putin miraculously salvaged two ancient Greek urns. Russians laughter turned Homeric when Putin s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, inexplicably announced that the urns had been placed there to give Putin a sense of importance.

Everyone expects that the current president, the puppet Dmitry Medvedev, to switch roles with Putin after the March elections. But waiting in the wings is former Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, who could replace Medvedev should Russia need a factotum of sincerity about economic reform.

According to the stated purpose of the investigators, she is also being held as a hostage pending the return to Russian territory of her superior, the Head of the Legal Department of Yukos Oil Company, Dmitry Gololobov, whose flight to London allegedly enraged investigators.

Recently, the two countries signed an agreement that seemed to put an end to their long border dispute. The agreement was a sort of follow up to the visit to Beijing of Dmitry Medvedev, who made China one of his first official trips abroad after being elected Russia s president.

Last year, Putin reorganized the RIA Novosti news agency, firing 40 of its staff, including its relatively independent management. The agency s new leader, Dmitry Kiselyov, announced in November the creation of Sputnik, a government funded network of news hubs in 34 countries, with 1,000 staff members producing radio, social media, and news wire content in local languages.

Russian Federation Alexey A. Rogov, Alexander V. Fedorov, Victor I. Zagrekov, Igor V. Mosin, Valery A. Maximenko, Victor B. Mareev, Yuri A. Buykin, Vitaly V. Skvortsov, Alexander V. Fedulov, Olga V. Mirolubova, Dmitry R. Okhotnikov, Alexander A. Borisov, Valery A. Kolodiazhny, Evgeny A. Zhuravlev, Ekaterina P. Kolykhalova, Sergey N. Nalobin, Yulia A. Karagod, Olga V. Kantemirova

The term energy security in Europe has been hijacked to empower suppliers and weaken importers, implying a drastic reduction in competition, rising political vulnerability, and the erosion of the rule of law. The fact that Russian President Vladimir Putin s likely successor, Dmitry Medvedev, is Chairman of Gazprom leaves little doubt about the Kremlin s determination to maintain an iron grip on the energy sector.

When I made those same points in a wrap up to the Civil Society Summit as a whole, I was interrupted by none other than US president Barack Obama, who was in Moscow for his summit with President Dmitry Medvedev but also took the time to listen our gathering of civil society organizations. Obama apologized for arriving late, and added That s why we have civil society.

Even so, Russian and Western officials continue to spar over American plans to deploy ballistic missile defense systems in Poland and the Czech Republic. In his speech in November to the Russian parliament on the state of nation, President Dmitry Medvedev warned that Russia would deploy short range Iskander missiles in the Baltic Sea port of Kaliningrad to neutralize if necessary the anti ballistic missile system in Europe.

When Dmitry Medvedev was elected as Russia s president a little more than a year ago, he promised to do away with the legal nihilism in Russia. Although he was a close confidante of Vladimir Putin and probably was able to assume presidential office exclusively for that reason, many dared to hope that he would stop the vendetta against Khodorkovsky and all those who had been close to him.