Dmitry Medvedev encouraged United Russia to promote modernisation in general and to reform the party itself. The party's leaders refused to develop the president's ideas.
Lukoil and Rosneft ask the prime minister to sort out licencing issues The heads of Russia’s oil majors, Lukoil and Rosneft, have sent a letter to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin requesting a rule clarification in issuing licences for exploiting hydrocarbon deposits on the continental shelf, in domestic oceans and inland seas.
How Moscow and Brussels regarded Kiev’s warnings.
Mortgage loan rates will be reduced at the expense of would-be pensioners.
In his open letter to President Medvedev, Viktor Yushchenko could not remain silent. While his main election rival Yulia Tymoshenko set off to Yalta for gas talks with Prime Minister Putin, he found a way to draw attention to himself. On the night from Wednesday to Thursday a wordy letter to Dmitry Medvedev was posted on the Ukrainian president’s website. Viktor Yushchenko suggested that the Russian president changes the gas contracts.
Vladimir Putin and Yulia Tymoshenko promised to rule out the gas issue.
Russian leaders, President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, have steadily maintained high popularity ratings for several months in a row.
The Pikalyovo plant, which resumed operation in June following Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s intervention, is again under the threat of stoppage.
The President's Address has left a very strange impression. A jumble of men and horses on the battlefield, as they say. He gives a rather negative appraisal of the heritage received from his predecessor and vaguely dreams of smart technologies, even interplanetary travel. He speaks about the ridiculous issue of time zones in Russia and promises long-awaited tax relief for charity organisations. He claims that, despite the real situation, we have an absolutely full-fledged political system and even more... It seems the text was automatically compiled from the pieces of different subjects.
The prime minister has found a sector that can do without state support.