"an illegal provocation". An April 2017 Levada poll found that 45% of surveyed Russians supported the resignation of Medvedev. Publications Medvedev wrote two short articles on the subject of his doctoral dissertation in Russian law journals. He is also one of the authors of a textbook on civil law for universities first published in 1991 (the 6th edition of Civil Law. In 3 Volumes. was published in 2007). He is the author of a university textbook, Questions of Russia's National Development, first published in 2007, concerning the role of the Russian state in social policy and economic development. He is also the lead co-author of a book of legal commentary entitled, A Commentary on the Federal Law "On the State Civil Service of the Russian Federation". This work considers the Russian Federal law on the civil service, which went into effect on 27 July 2004, from multiple perspectives — scholarly, jurisprudential, practical, enforcement- and implementation-related. In October 2008, President Medvedev delivered the first podcast at the presidential website. His videoblog posts have also been posted in the official LiveJournal community blog_medvedev On 23 June 2011, Medvedev participated in launching of the "Eternal Values" project of RIA Novosti state-operated news agency together with Russian chapter of Wikimedia Foundation. RIA Novosti granted free Creative Commons licences to one hundred of its images, while Medvedev registered as Dmitry Medvedev for RIAN and personally uploaded one of those photographs to Wikimedia Commons. On 13 April 2009, Medvedev gave a major interview to the Novaya Gazeta newspaper. The interview was the first one he had ever given to a Russian print publication and covered such issues as civil society and the social contract, transparency of public officials and Internet development. Photo book. Electoral history Presidential election Prime minister nominations References General sources Photo book. External links Personal website Personal video-blog Official site of the Prime Minister of Russia Video blogs Official profile of Medvedev at VK |- |- |- |- |- 1965 births Living people Politicians from Saint Petersburg Lawyers from Saint Petersburg Presidents of Russia Heads of government of the Russian Federation 1st class Active State Councillors of the Russian Federation Kremlin Chiefs of Staff Independent politicians in Russia United Russia politicians United Russia presidential nominees Communist Party of the Soviet Union members Campaign managers Candidates in the 2008 Russian presidential election Businesspeople in timber Gazprom people Russian bloggers Russian photographers Russian people of