VLADIMIR PUTIN
ARCHIVE OF THE OFFICIAL SITE
OF THE 2008-2012 PRIME MINISTER
OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
VLADIMIR PUTIN
ARCHIVE OF THE OFFICIAL SITE
OF THE 2008-2012 PRIME MINISTER
OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
VLADIMIR PUTIN
“I have thought all along (and the phone-in, unfortunately, confirmed my point of view) that the prevailing thinking in Russia is that all problems can be solved by throwing money at them. And not a word has been said about the results that we are supposed to get. For example, whether a thousand, two thousand or three thousand kilometers of highways will be built with our money.
Vladimir Putin’s statement regarding how the Russian people benefited from the sale of YUKOS assets elicited this comment from Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former head of YUKOS, at the Khamovnichesky law court. Khodorkovsky told presiding judge Viktor Danilkin:
A review of Vladimir Putin’s phone-in programmes from 2001 to the present time.
State corporations have recently engaged the minds of Russian leaders and analysts. There is no consensus about the practicability of continued use of that economic instrument and the measures aimed at improving it.
The audience at Gostiny Dvor from where the Prime Minister addressed the people yesterday consisted of workers and students. Not a single government bureaucrat.
It was a warm sunny day in Rome when the Russian President arrived for a working visit yesterday. Dmitry Medvedev, like the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi who greeted him at the entrance to the government villa Madama wore no overcoat even though it was December.
“Putin gave you this promise, so go and ask Putin”… This is the formula local bureaucrats use freely when refusing to do what they must do, as it became clear during the course of Putin’s live phone-in programme. The excuse is used even when there should be no place for it: for example, in turning down a request for a flat by a World War II veteran. After the live video link Izvestia asked the Prime Minister what he was going to do about such bureaucrats.
All the plans for developing power generating capacity must be fulfilled, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said yesterday: “We cannot afford to be late in developing the power industry. Russia should build 10 GW in 2010-2011,” the Prime Minister said.
The government will help the United Aircraft Corporation (OAK) out of the debt pit. “We will contribute several billion roubles to its authorised capital and reschedule a further 46 billion roubles of its debts over the coming years,” Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced yesterday.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has not forgotten about Pikalyovo. In his phone-in broadcast yesterday he promised that the industries in Pikalyovo would sign long-term contracts for the supply of raw materials very soon.
