VLADIMIR PUTIN
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OF THE 2008-2012 PRIME MINISTER
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VLADIMIR PUTIN

Point of View

2 may
2012
Russia's Development Strategy 112

“Support from Russian citizens has always helped us, and I’m confident that the government’s future line-up will rely on the people. We must never forget about the needs of ordinary people. We must always remember how government-level decisions influence the lives of all ordinary Russian citizens.”

Vladimir Putin
At a government meeting, May 2
4 may
2012
Fuel and energy sector 51

“We need to take effective steps to upgrade competition at the retail electricity market. Energy companies require stable, predictable conditions, steady and predictable demand and guarantees for the return of investments, which are quite considerable.”

Vladimir Putin
At a conference on the development of the retail electricity market, May 4
3 may
2012
Fuel and energy sector 51

“Currently we are creating all necessary conditions for the work of our companies, for developing new oil and gas provinces, for improving the sector's efficiency. These are financial incentives and the consistent development of transport infrastructure, including the pipeline network, which will doubtless create new conditions and new prospects for the sector.”

Vladimir Putin
At a meeting on motivating exploration of hard-to-recover oil reserves, May 3
3 may
2012
Fuel and energy sector 51

“Based on a system-wide approach, we began to create incentives for investment projects that will ensure the long-term growth of oil and gas production. Our goal is to create a flexible toolkit, including fiscal tools, to make all of the hydrocarbon production projects more attractive for investment. In this way, we will be able to strategically enhance Russian energy security and play a bigger role on the global energy markets.”

Vladimir Putin
At a meeting on motivating exploration of hard-to-recover oil reserves, May 3
3 may
2012
Fuel and energy sector 51

“A significant reserve means more field production and the sparing use of minerals, as well as the more active use and involvement of hard-to-recover oil reserves. As you well know, such projects need both serious investment and state-of-the-art technologies. And we need to create conditions that attract investment, so that beginning work on new sites and the exploration of technologically difficult fields are profitable and worthwhile endeavours for companies that allow them to recoup investment costs and earn economically justified profits.”

Vladimir Putin
At a meeting on motivating exploration of hard-to-recover oil reserves, May 3
2 may
2012
Ways to Overcome the World Economic Crisis 29

“Our country, you and I, have managed to prevent a repeat of the shocks of 1998. This, too, can certainly be called your achievement, to a considerable extent. This attests to the fact that the plan of anti-crisis measures drafted and advanced by the government had proved effective.”

Vladimir Putin
At a government meeting, May 2
2 may
2012
Russia's Development Strategy 112

“Support from Russian citizens has always helped us, and I’m confident that the government’s future line-up will rely on the people. We must never forget about the needs of ordinary people. We must always remember how government-level decisions influence the lives of all ordinary Russian citizens.”

Vladimir Putin
At a government meeting, May 2
2 may
2012
Eliminating bureaucratic obstacles 29

“We've dramatically changed the very procedure for considering investor applications. Many of the formalities have been simplified and excessive approval requirements have been removed. Thanks to the adoption of a whole number of amendments, foreign companies have now gained wider access to the food, medical and mining industries, as well as to the banking sector.”

Vladimir Putin
At a meeting of the Russian government’s Foreign Investment Oversight Commission, May 2
2 may
2012
Investment Climate 37

“As a matter of fact, a new mechanism has been created and tested for attracting foreign investment and granting foreign companies access to operate in strategic sectors of the Russian economy. Since it was formed four years ago, the commission has considered more than 140 applications from foreign companies and investors. An overwhelming majority of those applications (94%) has been approved. Only in eight cases have the applications been turned down, and always for good reason. None of the rejections has been disputed or appealed against.”

Vladimir Putin
At a meeting of the Russian government’s Foreign Investment Oversight Commission, May 2
28 april
2012
Russia's Development Strategy 112

“We may have different approaches to problems, but our common goal is to improve the quality of life in Russia, to make it more decent, comfortable and prosperous, to create conditions for resolving demographic problems so that we can have more children and more happy children, and to help people in trouble, people with special needs.”

Vladimir Putin
At a meeting on the implementation of tasks formulated in his election article, “Building justice: A social policy for Russia”, April 28
27 april
2012
International Cooperation 318

“A great deal has been done in recent years to advance Russian-Chinese relations. We don’t have a single irritant in our relations, but we do have shared interests. We’ve managed to develop effective instruments for achieving our common goals, with the most important of these being higher living standards and socio-economic cooperation.”

Vladimir Putin
At a meeting with Li Keqiang, Vice Premier of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China, April 27
26 april
2012
Road and transport infrastructure 26

“I think that, as with the energy market, we should consider introducing the principles of economically justified profit on investment capital. In this way we will be able to form transparent, stable and long-term rules of the game for the future and attract to the industry really big, so-called long-term investment, including money from pension and insurance funds, Russian and foreign financial institutions and resources of strategic investors.”

Vladimir Putin
At a conference on developing railway infrastructure and high-speed service, April 26
26 april
2012
Road and transport infrastructure 26

“Clearly, we must fundamentally improve our tariff policy on railway transport and switch to modern methods of regulation in this sphere. We need a predictable tariff formula that is understandable to all economic players, and it should last for five to ten years rather than one.”

Vladimir Putin
At a conference on developing railway infrastructure and high-speed service, April 26
26 april
2012
Road and transport infrastructure 26

“According to expert estimates, we will have to invest another five trillion roubles in infrastructure modernisation and development in the next decade. One of our priorities is to increase access to Eastern Siberia and the Far East and to develop approaches to our major sea ports. Thus, we must organise new routes as part of preparations for the 2014 Olympics and the World Cup in 2018. We will also expand our programme for high-speed passenger service.”

Vladimir Putin
At a conference on developing railway infrastructure and high-speed service, April 26
26 april
2012
Road and transport infrastructure 26

“Dozens of railway terminals have been repaired and high-speed service has opened between Moscow and St Petersburg, Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod, and St Petersburg and Helsinki. We have started implementing projects for intermodal shipments that make it possible to connect ground and air transport into a single transport system. We are finishing building the Kuznetsov Tunnel in the Far East, which will allow us to lift restrictions for shipping cargoes to the ports of Vanino and Sovetskaya Gavan; we are expanding approaches to the ports of Ust-Luga and Primorsk in the North-West and have built a railway to Nizhny Bestyakh. This will allow us to launch projects for the comprehensive exploration of the south of Yakutia, which is a very important region for the development of Eastern Siberia.”

Vladimir Putin
At a conference on developing railway infrastructure and high-speed service, April 26
26 april
2012
Road and transport infrastructure 26

“Therefore, we must proceed from the following basic task – today we must create advanced, powerful infrastructure capacity in railway transport and form a clear series of priority projects for the long-term perspective, and most important, we need to be fully clear on the funding.”

Vladimir Putin
At a conference on developing railway infrastructure and high-speed service, April 26
26 april
2012
Economy 103

“We need to see the prospects, and in this respect it is no secret that strategic forecasting is an important component of the development strategy for our economy and for this country in general. This is not idle talk, nor is it guesswork. We must proceed based on expert evaluation of the development of the global economy and the Russian economy, and to take a close and professional look at a more distant perspective.”

Vladimir Putin
At a Government Presidium meeting, April 26
24 april
2012
United Russia party 28

“United Russia should progress towards a healthy but firm conservatism. As planned, it should become a centrist conservative force relying on all the positive achievements at the previous stage of our development, which values these achievements yet is pointed toward the future. If we manage to create a mechanism for internal party democracy and ensure cooperation with the new government at the proper level, we will be able to work together towards the goals we have set.”

Vladimir Putin
At a meeting with core members of the United Russia party, April 24
24 april
2012
United Russia party 28

“It is necessary to improve the viability and the political competitiveness of United Russia, if it wants to continue to fight for leadership, and I think that any party should be willing to do so. It needs to prove to citizens and voters that its proposals for the development of the country, the economy and the social sphere are the best for the country in the time period in question. United Russia has everything it needs to preserve this leadership.”

Vladimir Putin
At a meeting with core members of the United Russia party, April 24
24 april
2012
United Russia party 28

“The ruling United Russia party played a positive role during the global financial crisis. I am confident that if the government and the majority of the State Duma didn’t work in such a coordinated manner as they did in the past two or three years, then many more of our citizens would have felt the cold abyss into which Russia could have plunged. Thank God, it did not happen.”

Vladimir Putin
At a meeting with core members of the United Russia party, April 24
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