Svetlana Vladimirovna Medvedeva

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Svetlana Medvedeva (2008)
Russian and American presidential couple 2009
Medvedeva with her husband at the G8 summit in Tōyako in 2008

Svetlana Vladimirovna Medvedeva , b. Linnik ( Russian Светлана Владимировна Медведева Svetlana Vladimirovna Medvedeva , born March  15,  1965 in Leningrad , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union ) is the wife of the former Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Anatoljewitsch Medvedev .

biography

Svetlana Linnik was born into a military family. Her father was a soldier in the Soviet Army. She met her future husband in the first grade of middle school No. 305 in the Leningrad suburb of Kuptschino . Both went to the same school in parallel classes for years.

After school, she studied at the Leningrad State School of Finance . The Medvedevs married in 1993 after they both finished their studies. In the following years, the two of them traveled together privately more frequently abroad. When their son Ilya was born in 1995, Medvedeva stopped working. In the same year she was baptized Orthodox. She then got involved in charities and organized social events in Saint Petersburg. In 2006 she initiated the Russian Art Festival in Bari , Italy , which has taken place annually since then.

Svetlana Medvedeva heads an organization founded by the Orthodox Patriarch Alexius II , which cares for the "spiritual and moral culture of the growing generation in Russia". She has been awarded several state and church orders. She is also the patron of a boarding school in Saint Petersburg, where 316 foster children aged between 4 and 25 live. Like other wives of heads of state, she is involved in charities, for example as a collector of donations for orphanages. She has also started an initiative for a family holiday in Russia.

Web links

Commons : Svetlana Medvedeva  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alexander Rahr : Putin after Putin, p. 52
  2. ↑ a b Oliver Bilger: The next Gorbacheva? . Moscow German Newspaper - mdz-moskau.eu. March 24, 2008. Retrieved May 18, 2010.
  3. ↑ Alexander Rahr: Putin after Putin, p. 52
  4. ↑ a b c President of Russia, Offical Web Portal: Svetlana Vladimirovna Medvedeva ( English ) Russian Federation - kremlin.ru. 2010. Archived from the original on July 29, 2009. Retrieved on May 18, 2010.
  5. ↑ Alexander Rahr: Putin after Putin, p. 52
  6. ↑ Orphans receive 500,000 rubles from Svetlana Medvedeva . www.russland.ru. November 4, 2008. Archived from the original on August 25, 2013. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 18, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / russland.ru
personal data
SURNAME Medvedeva, Svetlana Vladimirovna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Медведева, Светлана Владимировна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian first lady
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Leningrad