On December 8, 1999, almost exactly 10 years ago, Russia and Belarus signed an agreement to enter into the Union State. At the meeting of the Council of Ministers of the Union State yesterday, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin called for an appropriate celebration of this date.
The Yury Levada Analytical Centre published on its site the results of the public opinion poll where our compatriots were asked to say whose interests are expressed by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and President Dmitry Medvedev.
On Sunday, November 8, the Russian television channel NTV will show The Wall, a documentary dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The one-hour documentary was directed by NTV political correspondent and well-known journalist Vladimir Kondratyev, who is the only journalist who is called by the traditional, respectful Russian patronymic form of address on live news.
Employees at KD Avia airlines are preparing to protest their unpaid wages in the run-up to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s visit to Kaliningrad, the Russian exclave on the Baltic.
Vladimir Putin visits one of Russia’s oldest orthopedic centres.
The Kaliningrad Region authorities are through with their hurried preparations for Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s visit.
Yesterday Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited a new building of the Turner Children’s Orthopedic Research Institute in the city of Pushkin, near St Petersburg.
Regional officials have begun implementing Vladimir Putin’s instruction to ban representatives of pharmaceutical companies from hospitals and out-patient clinics. Without waiting for the requirement to be legalized, they tell pharmaceutical agents not to appear while physicians receive patients or just send them directly to the management.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin told the third Russian-Finnish Forest Summit that Moscow would not raise round timber export duties in 2010. The decision not to charge prohibitive export duties is linked with plunging demand for timber. The prime minister said current duties could be retained throughout 2011, unless the global-market situation improved.
German businessmen promise Vladimir Putin to boost the Russian economy.