Press Service Announcements

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is to attend a meeting of the Council of the Heads of Government (Prime Ministers) of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s Member-States, scheduled to be held October 29-30, 2008 in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin issued an executive order appointing Ivan Materov Deputy Minister for Industry and Trade

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with Kazakhstan’s Prime Minister Karim Massimov

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sent a message of congratulations to His Excellency Yehude Simon Munaro on his appointment as Prime Minister of the Republic of Peru

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with Qatar’s Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem bin Jabor al Thani

Prime Minister of the Chinese State Council Wen Jiabao will visit Moscow by invitation of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on October 27-29, 2008

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin expressed deep condolences on the death of opera singer Muslim Magomayev

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin approved amendments to the Government Resolution On the Management of the National Welfare Fund

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin congratulated opera singer Galina Vishnevskaya on her birthday

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed a resolution on establishing a Council of General and Chief Designers, Leading Scientists and Experts in the High-Tech Sector under the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation