Dmitry Medvedev - The African Mirror

Jul

2023

Russia’s Medvedev says standoff with West to last decades, Ukraine conflict ‘permanent’

DMITRY Medvedev, Russia's former president, has warned that Moscow's confrontation with the West will last decades and that its conflict with Ukraine could become permanent. Medvedev, once seen in the West as a liberal moderniser, has emerged as one of Russia's most outspoken hawks since Moscow launched what it called a "special military operation" in Ukraine last year. Now deputy head of the Security Council, his views reflect some of the thinking at the Kremlin's top level, according to Russian officials. In an article for the government's Rossiiskaya Gazeta newspaper, he said tensions between Russia and the West were "much…

Jun

2023

By GUY FAULCONBRIDGE

Russia now has free hand to destroy undersea communications cables – Putin ally

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A close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday there was no reason for Moscow not to destroy its enemies' undersea communication cables given what he said was Western complicity in the Nord Stream pipeline blasts. A sharp drop in pressure on both gas pipelines under the Baltic Sea was registered on September 26 last year and seismologists detected explosions, triggering a wave of speculation about sabotage to one of Russia's most important energy corridors. It is still unclear exactly what happened to Nord Stream, a multibillion-dollar project that carried Russian gas to Germany. Some U.S. and European…

Apr

2023

By The African Mirror

Putin ally: We are probably on verge of a new world war

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AN ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the world was probably on the verge of a new world war and the risks of a nuclear confrontation were rising. "The world is sick and quite probably is on the verge of a new world war," Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Putin's powerful security council, told a conference in Moscow. He said such a new world war was not inevitable but the risks of a nuclear confrontation were growing and more serious than concerns about climate change. Putin says the world faces the most dangerous decade since World War Two. He casts…

Mar

2023

By The African Mirror

Any attempt to arrest Putin would be declaration of war on Russia, ally says

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GUY FAULCONBRIDGE ANY attempt to arrest President Vladimir Putin after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a warrant for the Kremlin chief would amount to a declaration of war against Russia, his ally Dmitry Medvedev said. The ICC issued an arrest warrant on Friday, accusing Putin of the war crime of illegally deporting hundreds of children from Ukraine. It said there are reasonable grounds to believe that Putin bears individual criminal responsibility. Former President Dmitry Medvedev told Russian media that the ICC, which countries including Russia, China and the United States do not recognise, was a "legal nonentity" that had never done…

Feb

2023

By The African Mirror

Russia’s Medvedev floats idea of pushing back Poland’s borders

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FORMER Russian president Dmitry Medvedev that the only way for Moscow to ensure a lasting peace with Ukraine was to push back the borders of hostile states as far as possible, even if that meant the frontiers of NATO member Poland. Medvedev, who is now deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, made the comments in a message on his Telegram account exactly a year after Russia sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine in what it called a "special military operation" to protect Russian speakers and ensure its own security. Ukraine says it is defending itself from an unprovoked…

Jan

2023

By The African Mirror

Putin ally warns NATO of nuclear war if Russia is defeated in Ukraine

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GUY FAULCONBRIDGE and FELIX LIGHT AN ally of President Vladimir Putin warned NATO that a defeat of Russia in Ukraine could trigger a nuclear war, while the head of the Russian Orthodox Church said the world would end if the West tried to destroy Russia. Such apocalyptic rhetoric is intended to deter the U.S.-led NATO military alliance from getting even more involved in the war, on the eve of a meeting of Ukraine's allies to discuss sending Kyiv more weapons. But the explicit recognition that Russia might lose on the battlefield marked a rare moment of public doubt from a…

Jul

2022

By The African Mirror

Russia’s Medvedev: Attack on Crimea will ignite ‘Judgement Day’ response

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THE refusal of Ukraine and Western powers to recognise Moscow's control of Crimea poses a "systemic threat" for Russia and any outside attack on the region will prompt a "Judgment Day" response, former President Dmitry Medvedev said. Russia annexed the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 after a pro-Moscow president in Kyiv was toppled amid mass street protests. Moscow then also backed pro-Russian armed separatists in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. In the event of an attack on Crimea, Medvedev was quoted by TASS news agency as saying, "Judgment Day will come very fast and hard.…