Press Bulletin #34 12.11.2009 ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION DMITRY MEDVEDEV TO THE FEDERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION (THE KREMLIN, MOSCOW, NOVEMBER 12, 2009)

PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA DMITRY MEDVEDEV:

Citizens of Russia,

Deputies and members of the Federation Council,

Two months ago, in my article Go, Russia! I announced the principles for a new political strategy. In today’s Address to the Federal Assembly I want to outline the first specific steps for implementing this strategy. I will tell you about the immediate tasks ahead.

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Press Bulletin #33 18.09.2009 DMITRY MEDVEDEV TO THE 64TH SESSION OF THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY (NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 24, 2009)

PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA DMITRY MEDVEDEV: Mr President, Ladies and Gentlemen,

Today I would like to highlight five topics that are, as it seems to me, important for all of us and for our common approaches to the international agenda.

The first topic is the timing of this meeting as regards the global situation.

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Press Bulletin #32 15.09.2009 ARTICLE OF PRESIDENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION DMITRY MEDVEDEV “GO RUSSIA!” (SEPTEMBER 10, 2009)

In a few months Russia will enter a new decade of the twenty-first century. Of course, important junctures and significant dates are more symbolic than practical. But they give us a reason to reflect on the past, evaluate the present, and think about the future. Think about what awaits each of us, our children, our country.

First, let’s answer a simple but very serious question. Should a primitive economy based on raw materials and endemic corruption accompany us into the future? And should the inveterate habit of relying on the government, foreign countries, on some kind of comprehensive doctrine, on anything or anyone – as long as it’s not ourselves – to solve our problems do so as well? And if Russia can not relieve itself from these burdens, can it really find its own path for the future?

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Press Bulletin #31 02.09.2009 PRESIDENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION DMITRY MEDVEDEV SIGNED TWO EXECUTIVE ORDERS ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSIONER FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS AND ALEXEI GOLOVAN'S APPOINTMENT TO THIS POST (THE KREMLIN, MOSCOW, SEPTEMBER 1, 2009)

It is also recommended that the bodies of state power in the regions of the Russian Federation appoint commissioners for children's rights.

PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA DMITRY MEDVEDEV: I have decided to create the position of Commissioner for Children's Rights in our country, despite the fact that we already have a system for the protection of human rights and children’s rights. The protection of children’s rights is a very sensitive and at the same time very important area of social life that needs to be dealt with separately and have its own commissioner. That is why I have signed an executive order to this effect.

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Press Bulletin #30 01.09.2009 PRIME MINISTER OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION VLADIMIR PUTIN: «PAGES OF HISTORY – REASON FOR MUTUAL COMPLAINTS OR GROUND FOR RECONCILIATION AND PARTNERSHIP?» ARTICLE FOR GAZETA WYBORCZA (AUGUST 31, 2009)

We are already seventy years away from the tragedy that occurred on one dark day in the history of civilization - 1 September 1939 - the outbreak of the most disastrous and slaughterous war that Europe and the entire humanity have ever lived through. 

Invited by Donald Tusk, Polish Prime Minister, to take part in the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the Second World War, I did not hesitate to accept the invitation, I could not do otherwise: because the war took a heavy toll of 27 million lives of my compatriots, and every Russian family keeps both the sorrow of loss and the honor of the Great Victory, while each successive generation takes over the pride in their fathers and grandfathers fighting in the battlefield; because Russia and Poland were allies in that righteous battle. And we - people living today - ought to be moral enough to bow our heads to the fallen and praise the courage and firmness of the people from various countries who fought and eventually smashed the Nazi.

The twentieth century inflicted deep, non-healing wounds - revolutions, coups, two World Wars, the Nazi occupation of the bulk of Europe and the Holocaust tragedy, as well as the ideological divide in the continent. However, the European memory retains also the victorious May of 1945, the Helsinki Act, the demolition of the Berlin Wall, the tremendous democratic changes in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe at the turn of the 1990s.

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