Press Service Announcements

While on a working visit to Sochi, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin meets with Gerhard Schröder, Chairman of the Shareholders’ Committee of Nord Stream AG and former German Chancellor

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung exchange congratulatory messages on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two governments

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has a telephone conversation with Mongolian Prime Minister Sukhbaatar Batbold

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sends his greetings to the guests of a gala night in honour of the 150th anniversary of Anton Chekhov’s birthday

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sends a message of congratulations to Yevgeny Ustyugov, biathlon gold winner at the 21st Winter Olympics

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sends a message to Pyotr Semak, actor of St Petersburg Maly Drama Theatre (Theatre of Europe), and People’s Artist of Russia, wishing him a happy 50th birthday

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin expresses his deep condolences in connection with the death of theater and film director Vladimir Motyl

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sends a message welcoming the participants of the 18th International Christmas Educational Readings

Vladimir Putin signs a government resolution to allocate 5.038 billion roubles to subsidise the sale of intervention fund grain

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sends a message of congratulations to stage and film actress Valentina Talyzina

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sends a message of congratulations to figure skater Yevgeny Plyushchenko who won silver in the men’s singles event at the XXI Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sends a congratulatory message to actor Dmitry Kharatyan

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin congratulates People’s Artist of Russia, composer and singer Yury Antonov on his 65th birthday

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin relieves Deputy Energy Minister Vyacheslav Sinyugin of his duties at his own request

Vladimir Putin congratulates Nikita Kryukov and Alexander Panzhinsky, individual sprint winners in the XXI Winter Olympics

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin speaks with Moldovan Prime Minister Vlad Filat by telephone

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin congratulates People’s Artist of Russia, composer Gennady Gladkov on his 75th birthday

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin expresses his deep condolences to Yevgeniya Karpova on the death of her husband, writer and essayist Vladimir Karpov

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sends his greetings to performers and audience at the 3rd International Winter Music Festival in Sochi

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin speaks with Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi by telephone

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin today had a telephone conversation with the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Karim Massimov

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin congratulates the Kamaz Master team with the victory in the Dakar Rally Raid 2010

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin speaks by telephone with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin congratulates actor Boris Nevzorov on his birthday

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sends a message of condolence on the death of opera singer Irina Arkhipova, People’s Artist of the USSR

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sends message wishing a happy 65th birthday to composer Maxim Dunayevsky

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin congratulates former and current employees of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Diplomatic Service Day

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin appoints Alexei Savatyugin Deputy Minister of Finance (see Resolution No. 4-r of January 13, 2010)

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sends birthday greetings to actor Vladimir Zeldin

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin invites his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan to visit Russia on January 12-13 of this year

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin speaks with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh by telephone

Vladimir Putin congratulates famous Russian writer Daniil Granin on his birthday

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has wished a happy 85th birthday to Valentin Zorin, a foreign-affairs journalist, a State Prizes winner and a political commentator at Voice of Russia radio

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin congratulated the President of the International Union of Musicians, People's Artist of the USSR Irina Arkhipova, on the occasion of her birthday

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sends a message of condolence to the daughter of Merited Actress of Russia, Anna Samokhina, upon the actress’s death

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin wished international heads of state and government a happy New Year

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin relieves Nikolai Yurgel as head of the Federal Supervision Service for Healthcare and Social Development

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sends a message of condolence to the family of composer and People’s Artist of Russia Isaak Shvarts

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin appoints Alexander Khlunov Director of the Department of Science, High Technologies and Education of the Government of the Russian Federation, and releases him from his previous office

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sent a message of congratulations to the World Wildlife Fund

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signs Executive Order No. 103r of the Government of the Russian Federation, of February 3, 2010, to make amendments to the structure of the Government Executive Office of the Russian Federation

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin congratulates Emmanuil Vitorgan, Distinguished Artist of the RSFSR, on his 70th birthday

On the Russian leader’s initiative, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has a telephone conversation with Donald Tusk, chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Poland

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin congratulates artistic gymnast Larisa Latynina, Merited Master of Sports and Merited Coach of the Soviet Union, on her birthday

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has a telephone conversation with Belarusian Prime Minister Sergei Sidorsky

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin congratulates the staff and veteran workers of the Ministry of Civil Defence, Emergencies and Disaster Relief on the Russian Federation’s Rescue Worker Day

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sends a message wishing a happy 75th birthday to Yevgeny Velikhov, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Secretary of the Russian Public Chamber and State Prize winner

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin congratulates People’s Artist of the Soviet Union Nikolai Slichenko, artistic director of the Moscow Music and Drama Romani Theatre “Romen”, on his 75th birthday

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin congratulates Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia on the first anniversary of his enthronement

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin congratulates Mikhail Boyarsky, People’s Artist of the RSFSR, on his 60th birthday