Press Service Announcements

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sent his greetings to Prime Minister of Republic of Tunisia Mohamed Ghannouchi on the occasion of the Kazakh national holiday, Independence Day

Vladimir Putin signed Government resolution on procedures of reimbursing individual categories of Russian citizens for Sberbank deposits in 2009

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin appoints Sergei Khutortsev Director of the Government Department for Ensuring the Work of the Governmental Military-Industrial Commission, relieving him from the previous post

Vladimir Putin signed Government resolution on the federal budget allocations on improving medical aid to patients with vascular diseases in 2009

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signs Resolution No.228 of the Government of the Russian Federation, dated March 16, 2009

Vladimir Putin signed Government resolution on the distribution of federal budget subsidies to the regions for government support of small and medium-sized businesses, including farmers' households

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has appointed Anatoly Chabunin Head of the Federal Highway Agency of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sent a congratulatory message to French Prime Minister Francois Fillon on his birthday

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signs Resolution No.231 of the Government of the Russian Federation, dated March 17, 2009

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sent a message of greetings to Abkhazian President Sergei Bagapsh on his 60th birthday

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has appointed Oleg Belozyorov Deputy Transport Minister of the Russian Federation, relieving him from the previous post.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed the Executive Order on nominations of Russian Federation representatives and independent directors in the Boards of Directors (Observation Councils) and Auditing Commissions of joint-stock companies

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sent a message of greetings to the artistic director of the Yeralash TV programme Boris Grachevsky on his 60th birthday and 40th anniversary of his creative work

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin congratulated the staff of the Government’s Financial Academy on the 90th anniversary of its foundation

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sent a congratulatory message to his North Korean counterpart Kim Yong-il

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sent a message to Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev, congratulating him on Bulgaria’s Liberation Day – the country’s national holiday commemorating its liberation from Ottoman rule

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sent a message to Valdis Dombrovskis, congratulating him on his appointment as Latvia's Prime Minister

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sent a congratulatory telegram to Mikhail Gorbachev, President of the International Public Foundation for Socioeconomic and Political Studies, on his birthday

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sent a message to Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, congratulating him on his birthday

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sent a letter of greetings to participants in the finals of the Fourth Russian Rural Winter Games, held in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area on March 2-3, 2009

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sent a message to Yury Bondarev, congratulating him on his 85th birthday

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed a resolution On Approving Import Customs Duties on Some Types of Equipment for Medical Supplies Industry

Vladimir Putin offered his condolences to the families of the Russian tourists involved in a bus crash in Vietnam

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin appointed Vitaly Mutko as chairman of the Russian group in the Russian-Tunisian Intergovernmental Commission on Trade, Economic, Scientific and Technological Cooperation

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin congratulated Naina Yeltsin on her birthday

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin congratulated opera singer Irina Bogacheva, a professor at the St Petersburg State Conservatoire, on her birth anniversary

Vladimir Putin sent a telegram wishing a happy 96th birthday to Sergei Mikhalkov, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the International Community of Writers' Unions

Vladimir Putin signed a Resolution On the Criteria for Considering Electric Power Generating and Supplying Companies and Electricity Consumers as Subjects to Receiving Services of Mandatory Electric Power Supervision and Control

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sent a telegram wishing a happy 55th birthday to Belarusian Prime Minister Sergei Sidorsky

Vladimir Putin signed Resolution On Amending Federal Targeted Programme On Enhancing Road Traffic Safety in 2006-2012

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed Government Resolution No. 225 dated March 10, 2009

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin congratulated People’s Artist of the U.S.S.R. and Professor at Ilya Repin St Petersburg Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture Andrei Mylnikov on his 90th birthday

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed Government Resolution No. 196 of March 5, 2009

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin congratulated the Lube pop rock group on their 20th anniversary

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed Government Resolution No. 195 of March 5, 2009

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sent a congratulatory message to Moscow Lenkom State Theatre actor Oleg Yankovsky on his 65th birthday

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin appointed Alexander Misharin Director of the Government Department of Industry and Infrastructure, relieving him from the previous post

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed Resolution No. 141 dated February 24, 2009

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin congratulated famous writer Fazil Iskander on his 80th birthday

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed Resolution No. 140 of February 24, 2009

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed an executive order to transform the Government Department of Sectoral Development and the Government Department of Priority National Projects into the Government Department of Industry and Infrastructure

Vladimir Putin signed Resolution No. 142 of February 24, 2009 On Approving the Rules of Drafting and Approving Federal State Standards in Education

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin congratulated artistic director of the Moscow Theatre of Miniatures Mikhail Zhvanetsky on his 75th birthday

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed Resolution No. 106 On Amending Certain Government Resolutions in the Sphere of Road Traffic Safety

Vladimir Putin signed Government resolution on the transportation by Russian Railways of new Russian-made cars to railway stations in the Far Eastern Federal District

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed decree Nо 131 of February 14

Vladimir Putin appointed Viktor Risovany as Deputy Head of the Federal Agency for Fishery

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin appointed Anastasia Rakova director of the Government’s Legal Department

Vladimir Putin signed Government resolution on federal budget allocations for improving medical aid to cancer patients in 2009

Vladimir Putin signed the Executive Order on Amending the Regulations of Connecting Corporate and Private Power Receivers to Electric Mains