Working Day

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited two Air Force pilots who were downed during the peace enforcement operation in Georgia, and who are now staying at hospitals in Moscow

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with Belarusian Prime Minister Sergei Sidorsky

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with King Abdullah bin al-Hussein of Jordan

Vladimir Putin appointed Valery Kholodov Deputy Director of the Federal Fisheries Agency

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin chaired a meeting on drafting the concept of long-term national development until 2020

Vladimir Putin appointed Oleg Savelyev Deputy Minister for Economic Development

Decisions of the August 21 Government meeting

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed an executive order on changes in the structure of the Government Office

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin appointed Anatoly Yarochkin Head of the Federal Agency for Tourism

Vladimir Putin appointed Denis Molchanov Director of the Culture and Education Department

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin appointed Alexander Braverman Director-General of the Federal Fund for Support of Housing Construction

Vladimir Putin appointed Vitaly Shipov Director of State Management, Regional Development and Local Government Department

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin appointed Dmitry Severov Deputy Minister for Communications and Mass Media

Background material for the August 21, 2008 Government meeting

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin appointed Yury Kukuyev Deputy Minister of Agriculture

Agenda for the August 21, 2008 Government meeting (draft)

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin chaired a Cabinet meeting

Vladimir Putin signed an order on allocation to the Republic of North Ossetia - Alania of government subsidies

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sent a telegram of condolences to Prime Minister of Spain Jose Rodriguez Zapatero in connection with the plane crash at Madrid

Vladimir Putin signed an order on allocation to the Republic of North Ossetia - Alania of 500 million roubles in government subsidies as part of measures to balance the budgets of the Russian Federation constituent parts

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin chaired a meeting on the development of science and education

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed an order establishing a Federal Crisis Centre headed by the Minister for Civil Defence, Emergencies and Disaster Relief to mitigate the effects of an armed conflict in South Ossetia

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin held a meeting with Mintimer Shaimiyev, President of the Republic of Tatarstan

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed a Resolution on support in 2008 of temporarily displaced citizens of South Ossetia

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

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed an executive order on subsidizing a budget of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania in 2008

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin chaired a meeting on the development of competition

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin appointed Stanislav Ananyev Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliev

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin chaired a Cabinet meeting

Government presidium meeting press release (August 11, 2008)

Background material for the August 18, 2008 Government presidium meeting

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin held a meeting of the Governmental Commission on Budgetary Projects

Government presidium meeting press release (August 18, 2008)

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin chaired a Government Presidium meeting

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin congratulated Bela Rudenko on her anniversary

Background material for the August 11, 2008 Government presidium meeting

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin congratulated artist Vladimir Levental on his 70th birthday

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s visit to the People’s Republic of China

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin chaired a meeting with Federation Council Speaker Sergei Mironov

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s visit to the Republic of North Ossetia - Alania

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin chaired a meeting with Deputy Chairman of the State Duma and leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia Vladimir Zhirinovsky

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s visit to the People’s Republic of China

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin chaired a meeting with Governor of the Orenburg Region Alexei Chernyshev

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s visit to the People’s Republic of China

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin chaired a meeting on the long-term budget strategy for the period until 2023

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin committed increase of public prosecutors' salaries to the Finance Ministry