Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is set to switch roles with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who said on Saturday that he will run for president in March 2012 and proposed that Medvedev become ...

Dmitry Medvedev's future role as Russia's prime minister is looking less secure after his long-time ally, Vladimir Putin, hinted that his appointment may not be a done deal.

How Russia's "tandem" government will work has become clear after a raft of top appointments: President Dmitry Medvedev sits in the front but Prime Minister Vladimir Putin controls the speed ...

May 4 (Reuters) - Dmitry Medvedev was sworn in as Russian president on May 7, 2008. The following are key facts about Medvedev: Sign up here. * Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev was born on Sept. 14 ...

Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev, born into a family of teachers, is remembered as a bookish child. He says his favourite book was the Soviet Encyclopaedia -- similar to the Encyclopaedia Britannica ...

MOSCOW, June 11 -- In some of his first comments on future U.S.-Russia relations, President Dmitry Medvedev struck an optimistic note Wednesday but reiterated Russia's objections to further ...

"Neither Dmitry Anatolyevich (Medvedev), nor I can rule out that each of us may run in the race," Putin was quoted by the Itar-Tass news agency as saying.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin's icy blue gaze may soon be replaced by the softer brown eyes of his protege Dmitry Medvedev in the portraits that stare from the walls of tens of ...

A diminutive, softly-spoken former corporate lawyer, Russia's new president Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev is an unlikely figure to lead the biggest country on earth.

Dmitry Medvedev's future role as Russia's prime minister is looking less secure after his long-time ally, Vladimir Putin, hinted that his appointment may not be a done deal.

Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev was born Sept, 14, 1965. His parents were teachers and he grew up in a 40 square meter (430 square ft) flat in a suburb of Leningrad, as St Petersburg was then called.