Press Service Announcements

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin spoke with Mirek Topolanek, Prime Minister of the Czech Republic now presiding in the European Union, over the phone

Vladimir Putin sent a message to Natalya Solzhenitsyna on the occasion of Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s 90th anniversary

Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with the Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan to discuss trade and economic relations and the Middle East

Vladimir Putin signed Resolution On Measures to Stimulate the Housing Construction Market in 2008-2009.

Vladimir Putin signed the Executive Order "On the Granting of Inter-budgetary Transfers to the Budgets of Constituent Entities of the Russian Federation and to the Baikonur Municipal Budget for the Implementation of Special Duties for Medicine Supply"

Vladimir Putin endorsed the programme of state guarantees for free healthcare services to Russian citizens in 2009

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed an Executive Order approving the list of medicines purchased centrally from the federal budget

Vladimir Putin appointed Pavel Novikov to the post of Deputy Minister of Sports, Tourism and Youth Policy of the Russian Federation

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed an Executive Order on awarding prizes of the Government of the Russian Federation for cultural achievements in 2008

Vladimr Putin appointed Sergei Sitnikov Head of the Federal Service for the Oversight of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Communications

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed Executive Order, on practical measures to implement the Federal Law on the Federal Budget for 2009 and the Planned Period of 2010-2011

Vladimir Putin congratulated Yury Temirkanov, artistic director of St Petersburg’s Shostakovich Philharmonic, on his 70th birthday

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed Resolution No 982, dated December 24, 2008

Vladimir Putin has signed Executive Order 1734-r, dated November 22, 2008, approving Russia's Transport Strategy through 2030

Vladimir Putin signed Executive Order to approve the redistribution of budgetary allocations between the years 2008 and 2009 according to the supplement

Vladimir Putin sent a congratulatory message to the chairmen of Muslim spiritual boards of Russia on the occasion of the Kurban-Bairam (Id al-Adha) holiday

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed an executive order apponting Sergei Shokhin Deputy Director of the Federal Customs Service, relieving him from his previous post

Vladimir Putin sent a telegram to the Prime Minister of the Lao People's Democratic Republic, Bouasone Bouphavanh, congratulating him on Laos’s National Day – the 33rd anniversary of the founding of the LPDR

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed an executive order apponting Sergei Kudryashov Deputy Energy Minister

Vladimir Putin sent a telegram to Austria’s Federal Chancellor Werner Faymann, congratulating him on taking office

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed an executive order relieving Vladimir Shamakhov from his duties as Deputy Chief of the Government Staff due to a new appointment

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sent a message of condolences to the widow and sons of Presidential Envoy to the Urals Federal District Pyotr Latyshev in connection with his death

Vladimir Putin appointed Konstantin Chaika State Secretary and deputy head of the Federal Customs Service

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed an Executive Order establishing an Organising Committee to prepare and mark the centennial of the State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin spoke by telephone with his Ukrainian counterpart, Yulia Tymoshenko, who had made the call

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed an Executive Order to set up an embassy of the Russian Federation in the State of Brunei Darussalam in 2008

The Governmental Commission on Sustainable Development of the Russian Economy approved a list of core organisations of strategic importance

Vladimir Putin signed Resolution No. 863 on November 19, 2008, Introducing Amendments to the Federal Auditing Rules (Standards) Endorsed by Resolution No. 696 of the Government of the Russian Federation, Dated September 23, 2002

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sent a congratulatory telegram to Galina Volchek, artistic director of the Sovremennik Theatre, on her jubilee

Vladimir Putin signed Executive Order No. 1754-r setting out the procedure for designing and building the Baltic Pipeline System-2 (in two stages), which will run from Unecha to Ust-Luga

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed Executive Order, approving the composition of the Governmental Commission on Sustainable Development of the Russian Economy

Vladimir Putin sent a telegram congratulating Romanian Prime Minister Calin Popescu-Tariceanu on Union Day

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin congratulated People’s Artist of the Soviet Union, theatre and cinema actor Leonid Bronevoi on his 80th birthday

Vladimir Putin signed Executive Order On Celebrating the 300th Anniversary of the Founding of Tsarskoye Selo (Pushkin)

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed a decree approving the list of export/import milk and dairy products for conformity assessment on national standards including evaluation/tests, measurements and sampling

Vladimir Putin sent a letter to People’s Artist of the USSR and USSR State Prize winner Tair Salakhov, wishing him a happy 80th birthday

Vladimir Putin signed Resolution, which endorsed the list of milk and dairy products subject to obligatory conformity assurance when placed under customs treatment

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed an Executive Order On Approving Regulations for Overseeing the Operation of Russian Trans-Border Checkpoints

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sent his greetings to Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Karim Masimov on the occasion of the Kazakh national holiday, Independence Day

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin expressed his condolences to the families of those killed in the terrorist attacks in Mumbai

Vladimir Putin sent a message to Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Thailand, Abhisit Vejjajiva, congratulating him on his appointment

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sent a telegram to Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha in connection with Flag Day, the main national holiday

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin expressed sympathy over the death of outstanding cellist Valentin Berlinsky

Vladimir Putin signed Order No. 1715r, of November 19, 2008

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sent a congratulatory telegram to the winners of the Environmental Project of the Year award, established by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment Protection

Vladimir Putin signed Resolution On the Approval of Export Duties for Raw Oil Petroleum and Certain Petroleum Products Removed from the Russian Federation outside Customs Union Member Countries

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sent a congratulatory telegram to the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra and its Music Director Pavel Kogan on its 65th anniversary

Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with his Ukrainian counterpart, Yulia Tymoshenko

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sent a message to the People’s Artist of Russia, composer and musician Andrei Makarevich, congratulating him on his 55th birthday

New interactive service is now available on the official website of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin