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• Kremlin bill passes in parliament, but barely

  Duma, or elected lower house, approved the bill Wednesday with 237 votes, just above the simple majority required.President Dmitry Medvedev submitted the bill in response to massive protests against his mentor Vladimir Putin in the run-up to the March election   Read more »

• Opinion: U.S. should cut nuclear stockpile

  at an international nuclear security summit in South Korea, President Barack Obama 's private request to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev for "space" on his proposal for cooperation on missile defense was overheard from a live microphone and grabbed the headlines.The   Read more »

• Medvedev reassures Russia his cat is safe

  Dmitry Medvedev reassured Russians on Wednesday that his cat Dorofei was safe after reports that it had run away made him an object of satire on Twitter."About the cat. A source close to #Dorofei says he has not got lost anywhere. Thank you all for your concern!"   Read more »

• Tweeters catty over reports Medvedev's pet fled

  -- Russians who view President Dmitry Medvedev as Vladimir Putin 's lapdog flashed their claws over news reports that Medvedev's cat had run away.Medvedev, attending a summit in India , tweeted late Wednesday that the fluffy feline named Dorofei wasn't missing   Read more »

• Ambrose: Obama truth from an open mike

  a microphone was turned off, President Barack Obama whispered some secrets to Dmitry Medvedev the other day. He and the Russian president were in Seoul , South Korea. That, you would think, is a long distance from American politics, though not so long when   Read more »

Around the web

• Nikolic: No tradeoff on Kosovo for EU

  moment," Nikolic said in Moscow, where he addressed a congress of the United Russia Party during which Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev was elected as its leader. Nikolic told the Voice of Moscow there should be no recognition for Kosovo's independence   from United Press International Read more »

• Leading TV Presenter Launches On-Air Attack on Medvedev Party

  best-known journalists has voiced stinging on-air criticism of the country’s ruling United Russia party, led by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, in a rare show of dissent on state-controlled national television. Vladimir Pozner, 78, told viewers that the unanimous   from RIA Novosti Read more »

• Russia Said to Plan Sale of 7.6% Sberbank Stake in September

  plans to sell 7.6 percent of OAO Sberbank, eastern Europe’s largest lender, by as early as September as Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev expedites the government’s privatization program, a person familiar with the matter said. The new timeline for state asset   from Bloomberg.com Read more »

• Medvedev to meet Nazarbayev, Masimov in Kazakhstan

  and drop the image on Home icon in your browser toolbar, then select "yes" in pop-up window Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev arrived in Kazakhstan on Monday night on a working visit. He is scheduled to hold talks with Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev   from Voice of Russia Read more »

• Editorial: Pure saber rattling

  he prepared to reassume the post of Russian prime minister in an orchestrated transfer of power, outgoing President Dmitry Medvedev told a Kremlin audience that the nation needed to keep its nuclear arsenal. "They may still come in handy. We're not going to   from Ventura County Star Read more »