Press Service Announcements

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin appointed Alexander Chernogorov Deputy Minister of Agriculture

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin approved the Strategy for Developing the Russian Financial Market until 2020

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed the Government’s Executive Order No.152-r of February 14, 2009

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with US President George W. Bush

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed Government Resolution No. 104 of February 14, 2009

Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with Jose Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed Government Resolution No. 103 of February 14, 2009

Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on January 19. They discussed preparation of the Russian-Ukrainian documents on natural gas supply and transit, which are to be signed today

Vladimir Putin signed Executive Order No. 138r of February 9, 2009, on the establishment of embassies of the Russian Federation in the Republic of Abkhazia and the Republic of South Ossetia in 2009

Vladimir Putin sent a congratulatory telegram to People’s Artist Vasily Lanovoy, an actor of the Vakhtangov State Academic Theatre, on his 75th birthday

Vladimir Putin signed Executive Order No. 137r of February 9, 2009, on Russia joining the Patent Law Treaty adopted by the Diplomatic Conference in Geneva on June 1, 2000

Vladimir Putin spoke with Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko over the phone on the initiative of the Ukrainian side

Vladimir Putin signed Executive Order No. 140r of February 10, 2009, on submitting the federal bill On Amending the Federal Law On the Federal Budget for 2009 and the Planned Period of 2010-2011

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with Romanian President Traian Basescu to inform him that Ukraine was blocking its pipelines to Russian natural gas

Vladimir Putin signed executive decree No.130 of February 4, 2009 approving the candidatures of the members of the board of the Federal Fund of Mandatory Medical Insurance

Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, initiated by Russia

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin issued a decree appointing Sergei Vasilyev the Head of the Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastre, and Cartography, Chief State Registrar of the Russian Federation

Vladimir Putin spoke by telephone with Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev

On February 9, 2009, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed Executive Order No. 139-r

Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with European Commission President José Manuel Barroso, initiated by Russia

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with his Italian counterpart Silvio Berlusconi

Vladimir Putin spoke by telephone with Greek Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed Resolution No. 76 of the Government of the Russian Federation, dated January 31, 2009

Vladimir Putin signed an executive order awarding Russian Government prizes for 2008 in the field of print media

Vladimir Putin signed executive decree No. 66 of January 29, 2009

Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with Kyrgyz Prime Minister Igor Chudinov

Vladimir Putin sent a message of congratulations to Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad on his election as the Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek of the Czech Republic, which currently holds the Presidency of the European Union, on the latter’s initiative

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed a Resolution approving export customs duties on individual types of fertilisers exported outside the boundaries of countries signatory to the Customs Union agreements.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed Executive Order No. 19, of January 12, 2009

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin introduced amendments to the Government’s Resolution On the Federal Target Programme, Russia’s Culture (2006-2010)

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed an Executive Order on the establishment of the Organising Committee of the 27th World Summer Student Games in 2013 in Kazan, and approved its membership

Vladimir Putin signed Government Resolution No 2, dated January 8, 2009

Vladimir Putin sent a message of congratulations to Carlos Gomes Júnior on his appointment as Prime Minister of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau

Vladimir Putin spoke over the phone with Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek of the Czech Republic on the initiative of the Czech side

Vladimir Putin has had a telephone conversation with Jose Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, at the latter’s initiative

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed a Resolution cancelling export duties on plain nickel and cathode copper

Vladimir Putin spoke by telephone today with Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek, whose country currently holds the European Union rotating presidency

Vladimir Putin appointed Igor Chuyan head of the Federal Alcohol Market Control Service

Vladimir Putin and Jose Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, had a telephone conversation, on the latter’s initiative

Vladimir Putin congratulated Merited Arts Worker of Russia, composer Vladimir Dashkevich on his 75th birthday

Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with Mirek Topolánek, the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, which currently holds the rotating presidency of the European Union

Vladimir Putin sent a message congratulating the delegates and guests of the international Clean Water conference

Vladimir Putin spoke by telephone with German Chancellor Angela Merkel

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with Mongolian Prime Minister Sanjaa Bayar

Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with European Commission President José Manuel Barroso

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin approved the Guidelines for the State Policy for Facilitating the Power-Generating Industry’s More Cost-Effective Performance on the Basis of Replenishable Energy Sources until 2020

Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin approved a list of construction sites and projects for federal state needs for 2009, financed from budgetary investment in state-owned capital construction projects

Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with the Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek of the Czech Republic which currently holds the EU presidency