President Barak Obama will personally join Chicago's bid to host the 2016 Olympics by going to Copenhagen, where the fate of the next Olympics will be decided.
Russian authorities believe the process for developing the country’s financial system must be changed, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin told a forum organized by VTB Capital yesterday.
Russia’s currency will be floated, but there will be no sharp devaluations.
Yesterday, the presidential residence Bocharov Ruchei in Sochi had open doors. At first, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited President Dmitry Medvedev. The chief executives discussed the domestic conditions, took a walk along the shore and played a set of badminton (with the active participation of Medvedev’s Retriever Aldo).
Vladimir and Lyudmila Putin attended a Larisa Dolina concert yesterday at the Festivalny concert hall.
We had a hunch that the Ostrovok (Islet) cafe would become the most popular place in Sochi overnight. After all, it just recently served two rather high-profile guests: the President and the Prime Minister. No doubt, we thought, it's probably impossible to even get a table there now without making reservations...
Yesterday, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited the Bocharov Ruchei residence in the first half of the day. Like President Dmitry Medvedev, he was in Sochi this week.
US, EU, and Georgia unhappy with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s visit to Abkhazia.
Economy-class housing should not cost more than 30,000 roubles per square metre, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin believes.
The preparations for a forecast of Russia’s economic development until 2030 have been postponed for a year.
The government has decided not to push forward the preparation of a forecast of Russia’s social and economic development until 2030. Initially, it was to be made public by August 1, 2009, but the Ministry of Economic Development was given a respite until November 2010. Analysts think this is a reasonable decision: even a one-year plan is difficult during the crisis, much less long-term planning.