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
Book shops in Saratov turned down an ideological book for kids.
Moscow has not made up its mind about what candidate to support in the Ukrainian presidential election.
The government is cutting the bank bailout programme by 60%.
In spite of the tough rhetoric President Medvedev used against state corporations in his address to the Federal Assembly, their abolition or transformation seems to be only a remote possibility. And perhaps this is not such a bad thing.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin warned the European Union yesterday about possible problems with gas transit through Ukrainian territory resulting from payment issues. He mentioned the matter in a telephone conversation with Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, the current chairman of the EU. The issue was also the first thing that Mr Putin brought up at a meeting with the United Russia Party leaders earlier. He had discussed the situation with Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko over the telephone just before the meeting. The matter is a serious cause for concern in Moscow, lest things deteriorate so much that Gazprom is forced to shut off gas supplies again in early January. By all appearances, Kiev has the money to pay, but not the political will.
Russia is set to join trade in greenhouse gas emissions. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has approved a new procedure for endorsing companies’ projects, and government officials all promise that the mechanism is about to be launched.
The crisis will in no way hinder the renewal of data on the Russian population: Rosstat will be given back the money taken from its 2010 budget and compensated for the shortfalls in its budgeting in 2009.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin pledged to provide housing for all Great Patriotic War veterans in 2010, including those who were not put on the waiting list before March 1, 2005.
This is not the first time that Alexander Chernoshchekov from St Petersburg, an animalist who retrained as a sculptor, has cast a bust of a Russian leader for the personal collection of Californian Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. He already has busts of Lenin and Stalin, and now wants a bust of Putin.
On Wednesday the Council of Ministers of the Union State convened for a meeting chaired by Russian and Belarusian Prime Ministers Vladimir Putin and Sergei Sidorsky respectively. Both parties committed to make their planned contributions to the budget of the Union State in full despite the recession.
