Medvedev launches his own channel on YouTube
Less than a year ago, he opened a blog on his official website and several months became a Live Journal blogger.
"The new channel continues the video blog on the president's website," Kremlin spokeswoman Natalia Timakova told Itar-Tass. "YouTube is very popular, and we hope to increase our audience through it not only by reaching out to the users of the Russian segment of the Internet but also the Russian-speaking Internet users in other countries."
Officially, the channel will become operational at www.youtube.com/kremlin from September 1. However Medvedev's address to schoolchildren, students and teachers was posted on the website on Monday in connection with Knowledge Day and a new academic year to begin on September 1; Kazinform cites Itar-Tass. See www.itar-tass.com for full version.