US EditionFrom president to provocateur: The long journey of Russia’s Dmitry Medvedev
DMITROVSKY DISTRICT, MOSCOW OBLAST, AUG 3 – Since Russia's 2022 Ukraine invasion, Medvedev has embraced aggressive nationalism and nuclear threats, marking a sharp departure from his earlier liberal stance, analysts say.
- Dmitry Medvedev, Russian president from 2008 to 2012 and prime minister until 2020, is now a Kremlin Security Council member known for hawkish rhetoric.
- Medvedev rose to presidency due to constitutional term limits barring Putin in 2008, then swapped roles with Putin in 2012 before resigning as prime minister in 2020.
- During his tenure, Medvedev signed the 2009 New START treaty, faced opposition protests after the 2012 election, and later adopted aggressive language against Kyiv and the West following Russia's 2022 Ukraine invasion.
- He called Kyiv’s leadership "cockroaches breeding in a jar," urged the "destruction of the Kyiv neo-Nazi regime," warned that Russia might use tactical nuclear weapons, and taunted Trump with provocative social media posts.
- Despite Medvedev's warnings and Trump's nuclear submarine deployments, experts call these exchanges theatrics, noting Russia has refrained from nuclear weapon use over the past three years.
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In fact, the American president should not have reacted at all to the social media expressions of the former Russian president. As he did, the matter is even more worrying.
By Tim Lister, CNN Dmitry Medvedev has come a long way since his time as Russia’s president, when he once stood next to then-US President Barack Obama and declared that “the solution to many world problems depends on the joint will of the United States and Russia.” This week, in his semi-official role as the Kremlin’s attack dog, Medvedev twice suggested that President Donald Trump’s administration was pushing the US and Russia toward war and wa…
From president to provocateur: The long journey of Russia’s Dmitry Medvedev
Dmitry Medvedev has traveled a long way from his time as Russian president, when he once stood beside then-US President Barack Obama and declared that “the solution of many world problems depends on the joint will of the United States and Russia.”
Sending nuclear threats to Trump, calling for the destruction of the "regime in Kiev" and calling the German Chancellor a "Nazi" - the former Russian president, who in 2009 called for cooperation between the superpowers with Obama, has become one of the most extremist voices in Russia in recent years - with Putin's tacit approval.
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