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
On his birthday, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin devoted three hours to literature. His guests were all famous writers and conversation centered on just about everything at once – the affairs of the creative union, the Khodorkovsky case, etc. What didn’t they discuss?
The Russian pharmaceutical industry is not well, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said. He said that half the state budget allocated to medicine should be spent on domestically produced drugs.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has extended higher duties on foreign cars for another nine months. However, next July the government will be able to bring duties on new cars back down to pre-crisis levels.
According to the prime minister, the former Yukos’s CEO should confess his guilt in full.
Yesterday Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with writers and answered what seemed to Kommersant correspondent Andrei Kolesnikov an endless array of questions. Still, Kolesnikov believes that political opinion was expressed whether by those who avoided the meeting or by those who came and asked Putin why publicist Alexander Podrabinek was being harassed.
When Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with Belarusian Prime Minister Sergei Sidorsky yesterday, he didn’t utter a word about Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, who, on the contrary, said quite a bit about him just the other day. Kommersant’s special correspondent Andrei Kolesnikov thinks that the Russian Prime Minister simply decided to look the other way – at least until the Belarusian President comes to his senses.
Vladimir Putin puts it across to his Belarusian counterpart what the benefits are.
But Prime Minister Vladimir Putin went to visit the regions instead.Mr Putin conducted an interactive conference yesterday on preparations for the winter heating season. ANDREI KOLESNIKOV, a special correspondent for this newspaper, said that conference participants, all of whom are fully aware of the rigors of a Russian winter, didn’t expect Putin to be even more rigorous.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin recently met with Renault's Vice President Christian Esteve to discuss the problems of Russia’s ailing auto giant, AvtoVAZ.
The political process in modern Russia has been distinct in its formation of a new elite, which has gathered renowned overachievers from all disciplines. The Soviet model, which provided ladder-climbing opportunity for only the most zealous party activists and bureaucrats, was displaced by a market economy, private property, an embryonic multi-party system, new relationships and big money.
