Dmitry Medvedev

Dmitry Medvedev
Дмитрий Медведев
Medvedev in 2022
President of Russia
In office
7 May 2008 – 7 May 2012
Prime MinisterVladimir Putin
Preceded byVladimir Putin
Succeeded byVladimir Putin
Prime Minister of Russia
In office
8 May 2012 – 16 January 2020
PresidentVladimir Putin
First DeputyViktor Zubkov
Igor Shuvalov
Anton Siluanov
Preceded byViktor Zubkov (acting)
Succeeded byMikhail Mishustin
Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation
Assumed office
16 January 2020
ChairmanVladimir Putin
Preceded byOffice established
First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia
In office
14 November 2005 – 12 May 2008
Serving with Sergei Ivanov
Prime MinisterMikhail Fradkov
Viktor Zubkov
Preceded byMikhail Kasyanov
Succeeded byViktor Zubkov
Igor Shuvalov
Kremlin Chief of Staff
In office
30 October 2003 – 14 November 2005
PresidentVladimir Putin
Preceded byAlexander Voloshin
Succeeded bySergey Sobyanin
Personal details
Born (1965-09-14) 14 September 1965 (age 58)
Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Political partyUnited Russia
(2012–present)
Other political
affiliations
CPSU
(before 1991)
Independent
(1991–2011)[1]
Spouse
(m. 1993)
Children1
ParentAnatoly Medvedev (father)
EducationLeningrad State University
Signature
WebsiteOfficial website
Military service
AllegianceRussia
Branch/serviceRussian Armed Forces
Years of service2008–2012
Rank
CommandsSupreme Commander-in-Chief
Battles/wars

Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev[a][b] (born 14 September 1965) is a Russian politician who has served as deputy chairman of the Security Council of Russia since 2020.[2] Medvedev was also president of Russia between 2008 and 2012 and prime minister of Russia between 2012 and 2020.[3]

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.[4]

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". However by the 2020s he had adopted increasingly authoritarian and anti-West positions.[5] Observers both domestically and internationally suggested that the break with past rhetoric was Medvedev attempting to change his public image as a moderate subordinate to Putin.[6] However, he shed his image of "Putin’s less-evil twin" after the Russian invasion of Ukraine by posing as a "nuclear madman".[7]

  1. ^ First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev Endorsed for the Next President's Post[dead link], Voice of Ruddia, 10 December 2007.
  2. ^ "Security Council structure". en.kremlin.ru/. Archived from the original on 18 January 2020. Retrieved 24 January 2020.
  3. ^ "Medvedev Announces Russian Government's Resignation". RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty. Archived from the original on 15 January 2020. Retrieved 15 January 2020.
  4. ^ "Подписан Указ о Заместителе Председателя Совета Безопасности Российской Федерации: Владимир Путин подписал Указ "О Заместителе Председателя Совета Безопасности Российской Федерации"". kremlin.ru. 16 January 2020. Archived from the original on 17 January 2020. Retrieved 17 January 2020.
  5. ^ "Putin anoints Medvedev to be successor as Russian president". the Guardian. 10 December 2007.
  6. ^ "After Putin: 12 people ready to ruin Russia next". 29 September 2022.
  7. ^ "After Putin: 12 people ready to ruin Russia next". POLITICO. 29 September 2022. Retrieved 4 March 2024.


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