[[File:Dmitry Medvedev.png|right|150px|thumb|Dmitry Medvedev]]
'''Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev''' ([[Russian language|Russian]]: Дми́трий Анато́льевич Медве́дев) (born in [[Leningrad]], September 14, 1965) as of 2024 served as deputy chair of the Security Council of the [[Russian Federation]]. He is the former [[prime minister]] and former third president of [[Russia]] from 2008 to 2012. [[Vladimir Putin]] served as [[prime minister]] under Medvedev's presidency. Medvedev was inaugurated on May 7, 2008, having won the March 2nd election with 70% of the vote.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/feb/29/russia</ref> He is the chairman of the party [[United Russia]].{{fact}}
Dmitry Medvedev has close ties to then Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, and has been accused by opposition and numerous experts in [[the West]] as being heavily under his influence. In 2005, then President Putin appointed him as First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, and subsequently endorsed him for the presidency when Putin was term limited out. Medvedev previously served as chairman of Russia's enormous state-run gas monopoly, [[Gazprom]].<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/11/world/europe/11medvedev.html</ref>