# Medvedev signs New START in Prague while Putin is prime minister

Date: 2010

## The fact

On 8 April 2010 President [Dmitry Medvedev](/people/dmitry-medvedev) and President [Barack Obama](/people/barack-obama) signed the New START treaty in Prague. Putin was prime minister of the tandem and the dominant security politician.

## Context

Negotiations ran through the tandem. Ratification followed in the Duma and the [US Senate](/organizations/us-senate). Medvedev signed; Obama signed; Putin as premier owned the security vertical. He did not hold the presidential seal that day.

SORT 2002 is a different treaty. Later Russian suspensions of New START are neighbouring later instruments.

The president of the Russian Federation is commander-in-chief and can issue decrees, sign statutes the Federal Assembly has passed, and represent the state abroad. He does not write UN General Assembly resolutions, ICC warrants, or European Council conclusions.

## Evidence and sources

President of Russia carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is the same strategic-ceiling logic as SORT, with a later verification regime. Complex authorship is the honest line: the premier of the tandem shares the file without being the signatory.

## What is established and what is not

Established: an 8 April 2010 Prague signature of New START by Medvedev and Obama while Putin was prime minister.

Not established: that Putin held the pen, or that later suspensions were this 2010 text.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Putin was premier of the security tandem. Obama signed for the United States.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Medvedev signs New START in Prague while Putin is prime minister, not a later speech about Medvedev signs New START in Prague while Putin is prime minister.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Medvedev signs New START in Prague while Putin is prime minister on 2010-04-08 is not a licence to treat every later President of Russia communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor decree exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Medvedev signs New START in Prague while Putin is prime minister into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to Medvedev signed. Putin was premier of the security tandem. Obama signed for the United States. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Vladimir Putin: https://factrail.ai/people/vladimir-putin

## Drivers

- Humanitarian Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/humanitarian-access

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nuclear-treaty-idUSTRE6373H620100408
- https://en.kremlin.ru/supplement/4114

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ru-new-start-2010