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title: President Medvedev photographed with soldiers at the Russian military base in Gudauta, Abkhazia (8 August 2010)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/medvedev-gudauta-base-abkhazia-2010/
description: Dmitry Medvedev, in a white shirt and dark tie with no jacket, stands among about twenty young soldiers in camouflage and caps.
section: Collection
---

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# President Medvedev photographed with soldiers at the Russian military base in Gudauta, Abkhazia (8 August 2010)

Dmitry Medvedev, in a white shirt and dark tie with no jacket, stands among about twenty young soldiers in camouflage and caps, who crowd and kneel around him in front of a canteen with red notice boards. The tell is the head of state posed at the centre of a group of conscripts at a base in the territory Russia had recognised two years earlier, which attaches the troops' standing to the president's visit.

## Propaganda techniques used in this photograph

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Full record

Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Theme, Event, Source, Rights

## Text on the object

Original (Russian) · read from the image, not independently checked

Original (Russian) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
РАСПОРЯДОК
ПРИЕМА ПИЩИ
ЗАВТРАК 7.00-7.[illegible]
ОБЕД [illegible]-11.[illegible]
УЖИН 19.00-19.[illegible]

СТОЛОВ[illegible]
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
SCHEDULE
OF MEALS
BREAKFAST 7.00-7.[illegible]
LUNCH [illegible]-11.[illegible]
DINNER 19.00-19.[illegible]

CANTEEN [partly hidden]
```

Text is from the two red notice boards behind the group, not from a caption. Times are partly blurred; the second board is cut off by a soldier.

[← President Medvedev with Ramzan Kadyrov and Adam Delimkhanov on a visit to Chechnya (Chechnya, 14 June 2010)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/medvedev-kadyrov-delimkhanov-chechnya-2010/) ["주체혁명위업을 대를 이어 계승완성하자!": street mural, Pyongyang (photographed 2010) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dprk-juche-revolutionary-cause-mural-pyongyang-2010/)

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