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8 weeks 4 days ago - Syria

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev warned Sunday that Kofi Annan represented the last chance for avoiding a civil war in Syria and offered the UN-Arab League envoy Moscow's full support.

"This may be the last chance for Syria to avoid a protracted and bloody civil war," Russian agencies quoted Medvedev as telling Annan at a meeting held in Moscow's Vnukovo 2 airport before his departure for a summit in Seoul.

"We will be offering you our full support at any level in which we have a say," said Mededev. "We very much hope that your efforts have a positive outcome." 

Annan said he needed Russia's strong backing to succeed in ending a year of bloodshed that the opposition says has claimed more than 9,100 lives.

Russian news agencies quoted Annan as saying he expected Russia to play an "active" role in making sure that both sides follow the points of the UN Security Council-backed Syria peace plan. [AFP]

Tags Dmitry Medvedev, Kofi Annan, Russia
11 weeks 4 days ago - Moscow

By 10:00 am local time in Ingushetia (06:00 GMT), the attendance at elections, according to Unus-Bek Evkurov, the president of the Russian republic of Ingushetia, was 100 per cent. In contrast, the turnout in St Petersburg and Moscow was 2 per cent and 3.7 per cent respectively, our correspondent reports.

Mikhail Prokhorov, meanwhile, has voted in Krasnoyarsk in Siberia, where he's from.

Dmitry Medevedev, the Russian president, has voted in Moscow, along with Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the LDPR leader.

Zhirinovsky said that he hoped that Russians would be in a "good mood" tomorrow, and that if they weren't, it would be a sign of an unfair election.

 

 

 

 

Tags Dmitry Medvedev, Mikhail Prokhorov, Russia elections, Vladimir Zhirinovsky
13 weeks 1 day ago - Russia

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in telephone talks on Wednesday that they reject foreign intervention in the Syria crisis, the Kremlin said.

"The sides spoke out in favour of the quickest resolution of the crisis by the Syrian people themselves through exclusively peaceful means and without  foreign intervention," Interfax quoted a Kremlin statement as saying.

Tags Dmitry Medvedev, iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, syria
13 weeks 1 day ago - Russia

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev discussed the crisis in Syria in a telephone conversation with Saudi King Abdullah, the Kremlin said in a statement.

"Dmitry Medvedev and King Abdullah exchanged views about the situation in the Middle East in the light of the events in Syria," it said in the statement carried by Russian news agencies.

Without giving further details, the Kremlin said both leaders discussed bilateral and global coordination of efforts to bring about a stabilisation of the situation in the region.

 

Tags Dmitry Medvedev, King Abdullah, Russia, Saudi Arabia
15 weeks 1 day ago - Syria

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday that the search for a way to end bloodshed in Syria should continue, including in the UN Security Council, but that foreign interference was not an option, the Kremlin said. 

In a telephone conversation, Medvedev "underscored the need to continue - including in the UN Security Council - the search for agreed approaches with the aim of fostering the resolution of the crisis by Syrians themselves, without external interference," the Kremlin said in a statement. [Reuters]

Tags Dmitry Medvedev, UN Security Council
39 weeks 1 day ago - Libya
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called on Muammar Gaddafi and Libya's rebels to stop fighting and sit down for talks.

"We want the Libyans to come to an agreement among themselves," Medvedev said after talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il at a Siberian military base.
"We would like [the fighting] to stop as soon as possible and for them to sit down at the negotiating table and reach an agreement on Libya's future."
Medvedev also suggested Moscow could recognise the rebels as Libya's formal government if they can unite the country.
He said Gaddafi still has some influence and military capabilities despite rebel successes.
Tags Dmitry Medvedev, Libyan National Transitional Council, NTC, libyan rebels, Muammar Gaddafi
40 weeks 6 days ago - Libya

Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian president, has signed a decree toughening sanctions on Libya five months after the measure was passed by the UN Security Council in March, the Kremlin said on Friday.

It was not immediately clear why Medvedev signed the decree implementing the sanctions so long after Resolution 1973 was passed.

Russia was obliged to sign the measure as a member of the UN Security Council, and Medvedev's decree makes no mention of the foreign military action specified in the measure.

The measures approved by Medvedev include a ban on the use of Russian airspace by Libyan planes or non-humanitarian flights to Libya.

The decree also slaps an asset freeze on Muammar Gaddafi, his close relatives and entourage, and forbids them from travelling to Russia.

Tags Dmitry Medvedev, Gaddafi, NATO, UN sanctions
42 weeks 10 hours ago - Syria

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev urged Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Thursday to carry out reforms and reconcile with his opponents, saying he risked a "sad fate" if he failed to do so. 

"He (Assad) needs to urgently carry out reforms, reconcile with the opposition, restore peace and set up a modern state," Medvedev said in an interview in the southern Russian resort of Sochi with Russia's Ekho Moskvy radio, Russia Today television and Georgia's PIK-TV.

"If he fails to do this, he will face a sad fate," he said.

Tags Dmitry Medvedev, protest, reforms, Russian, Syria protests, violence
46 weeks 3 days ago - Libya

Libya was expected to be at the top of the agenda as Russian and NATO leaders gathered in the Black Sea resort of Sochi on Monday. Here, NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen shakes hands with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.

Tags Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Dmitry Medvedev, NATO, Russia
48 weeks 4 days ago - Syria

It seems Russia has practically ruled out supporting a United Nations resolution condemning Syria's crackdown on pro-democracy protesters.

In an interview with the Financial Times newspaper, Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian president, criticised the way Western countries had interpreted UN resolution 1973 on Libya which he said turned it into "a scrap of paper to cover up a pointless military operation".

"I would not like a Syrian resolution to be pulled off in a similar manner," he added.

"We will be told the resolution reads "denounce violence," so some of the signatories may end up denouncing the violence by dispatching a number of bombers," Medvedev was quoted as saying.

"In any event, I do not want it to be on my head."

Tags Dmitry Medvedev, Russia, Syria protests, United Nations, United Nations Security Council

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