Press Service Announcements

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signs Executive Order No. 294-r of February 25, 2011 On the Liquidation of the Federal State Agency, The Fund of Mutual Understanding and Reconciliation, effective March 1, 2011, that made payments from the budgets of the Federal Republic of Germany and Austria to victims of Nazism

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin congratulates Alexander Tchaikovsky, artistic director of the Moscow State Philharmonic Society, on his 65th birthday

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin congratulates People’s Artist of the USSR Yury Simonov, conductor and artistic director of the Moscow State Philharmonic Society’s Academic Symphony Orchestra, on his 70th birthday

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin greets the participants and guests of AutoInvest 2011, the 5th international conference on attracting investment to the production of automotive components

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin issues an executive order relieving Vladislav Putilin from his duties as first deputy chairman of the federal government’s Military-Industrial Commission in connection with his retirement

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin congratulates a People’s Artist of Russia, composer Oscar Feltsman on his 90th birthday

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signs Resolution No. 107 of February 25, 2011, approving the statute recognising the International Financial Reporting Standards and IFRS interpretations in Russia

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signs an executive order appointing Alexander Kasyanov head of the Federal Service for Supervision of Transport

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has a telephone conversation with Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan Almazbek Atambayev

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signs an executive order nominating candidates for appointment as government representatives and independent directors on the boards and audit commissions of joint-stock companies

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin congratulates Mikhail Gorbachev, President of the International Foundation for Socio-Economic and Political Studies, on his 80th birthday

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sends message to delegates and guests of the Second Congress of the National Grain Producers Union

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signs Resolution On Budget Investment in the Reconstruction of (the first phase) of the Blokhin Oncology Centre at the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin congratulates speed skater and World Champion Ivan Skobrev on his triumph in Calgary, Canada

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin congratulates People’s Artist of the USSR Iya Savvina, stage and film actress, an actress at Chekhov Moscow Art Theater, winner of the USSR and Russian Federation State Prizes, on the occasion of her birthday

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signs Executive Order No. 168-r of February 12, 2011, assigning VTB shares

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signs executive orders No. 271-r and No. 304-r of February 25, 2011 and February 28, 2011, respectively, dismissing Konstantin Noskov from his position as director of the Government Department of Information Technology and Communications and appointing Alexei Popov in his stead

The Government announces the close of a transaction to privatise a VTB stake

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signs executive order No. 285-r of February 25, 2011, “On Awarding Government Prizes for Achievements in Science and Technology in 2010”

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin congratulates the employees and retired staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on their professional holiday – Diplomat’s Day

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signs Resolution No. 61 of February 7, 2011, “On the Federal Targeted Programme for the Development of Education in 2011-2015”

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sends his greetings to the attendees of a grand meeting marking the 100th birthday of Academician Mstislav Keldysh

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin congratulates members of the Pyatnitsky State Academic Russian Folk Choir on the 100th anniversary of its founding

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin congratulates composer Alexei Mazhukov on his 75th birthday

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sends birthday greetings to Valery Fokin, 65, artistic director of St Petersburg’s Alexandrinsky Theatre

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has a telephone conversation with Finnish President Tarja Halonen

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sends greetings to Russian Academy of Sciences Vice President Gennady Mesyats on the physicist’s 75th birthday

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin congratulates Russia’s national team on their victory at Winter Unversiade 2011

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sends a congratulatory message to the organisers and guests of the exhibition of masterpieces of the Prado Museum in the State Hermitage Museum

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signs executive order No 147-r, releasing Gennady Kurzenkov as head of the Federal Service for Supervision of Transport at his request

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin congratulates People’s Artist of the Russian Federation and Moscow City Duma deputy Yevgeny Gerasimov on his 60th birthday

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has a telephone conversation with Kazakh Prime Minister Karim Massimov

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin congratulates the National Olympic Committee on its centennial

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signs executive order No 138-r, dated February 7, 2011, to appoint Vasily Kopylov deputy chief of government staff

February 23–24, 2011, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to make a working visit to Belgium

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sends message of greetings to participants and guests of the Winter International Festival of Arts in Sochi

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin commends Alexei Voyevoda and Alexander Zubkov on their victory in the bobsleigh at the FIBT Bob & Skeleton World Championships in Königssee, Germany

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has a telephone conversation with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin approves procedures for connecting oil-producing areas to major pipelines and registering oil-producing businesses in Russia

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has expressed his condolences over the death of popular singer and actress Tatyana Shmyga, People’s Artist of the Soviet Union

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin approves regulations for financing regional healthcare modernisation programmes from the budget of the Federal Mandatory Medical Insurance Fund in 2011-2012

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sends a message to Russian Buddhist organisations congratulating them on the upcoming New Year based on Buddha’s enlightenment (Sagaalgan)

Minister of Civil Defence, Emergencies and Disaster Relief Sergei Shoigu, Minister of Regional Development Viktor Basargin and Arkhangelsk Region Governor Ilya Mikhalchuk report back to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin by telephone on the current situation in the town of Nyandoma in the Arkhangelsk Region, where last week thousands of people were left without heating after a local heating station stopped operating

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin congratulates screenwriter and playwright Eduard Volodarsky on his 70th birthday

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signs a resolution on the Coordinating Council on the Development of the Transport System of Moscow and the Moscow Region

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sends a message to Yevgeny Velikhov, scientist and secretary of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation, congratulating him on his birthday

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin congratulates the staff of the Trud newspaper on its 90th anniversary

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin congratulates Patriarch Kirill on the anniversary of his enthronment

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin congratulates Oleg Mityaev, a prominent Russian singer and songwriter, on his 55th birthday

Vladimir Putin signs a series of executive orders replacing the president of the state corporation Olympstroy