Meeting women's representatives at the Gorki presidentialresidence near Moscow, Mr Medvedev said that as a schoolboy he had mainly listened to "rock music and hard rock".
Secretary General arrived to begin the negotiating process, communist guerrillas launched attacks on the presidentialresidence, the home of a cabinet minister, and other locations, killing a total of 26 persons.
Gibbs' first White House press briefing covered a broad range of issues, ranging from serious questions on the economic bailout, Iraq, and the future of Guantanamo Bay detainees, to lighter topics such as the first family's transition to the presidentialresidence.