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
The government has made its decision about the 2010 budget which, according to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s promises, is to be “socially-oriented.”
Environmentalists protest against the construction of the Adler-Krasnaya Polyana road.
Over 40% of the population will be able to afford housing made cheaper by command.
Parallels between economic processes in Russia and Nigeria as two major oil producers have become somewhat common in the media prompting one to make a search for them and to try to understand whether they really exist. Surely, there are differences between the two countries, but there are similarities as well.
At the beginning of August Vladimir Putin set the bonuses for all Russian athletes who win medals at World and European championships in Olympic sports. The estimated reward for a gold medal at a world championship is $7,000, a silver medal at $3,500, and a bronze medal at $2,100. A gold medal at a European championship is worth $3,500, silver $1,750 and bronze $1,005. This averages out as $4,200 for world medals and $2,100 for European ones. So it seems that, for the Prime Minister, the world is twice as important as Europe. It is not known what he based this decision on. However if we were to compare Europe and the world by a variety of indicators we would not get a ratio of 1:2. So, the value of a European medal could have been different, especially if we were to take the value of a world medal as a constant.
On Friday, Dmitry Medvedev met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The two leaders had a productive discussion and expressed support for the idea of a global economic charter. They also discussed the potential take-over of Opel by the consortium of Russian Sberbank and Canadian Magna Corporation.
Economy-class housing should not cost more than 30,000 roubles per square metre. By saying this at a conference on national projects in Sochi, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has “put a new target” for government officials. The government is even ready to scrape the bottom of the barrel and provide additional funds for this purpose. There will be no economising on Russians’ health either.
The cost of economy-class housing should not exceed 30,000 roubles per square metre, said Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. The government is willing to buy out apartments from construction companies at this price.
Intensive guesswork about who would be the next president, strange reshuffling of personnel and big political shows – this is how we will remember the year 2007. An abrupt change of pattern in the political kaleidoscope prevented many from believing Vladimir Putin’s final decision to become the Prime Minister under President Dmitry Medvedev.
Not so long ago Prime Minister Vladimir Putin made the heads of leading banks a promise that they would not go on leave: “Until you bring the total credit portfolio to half a billion roubles, don’t even think about a holiday.” The bankers seem to be anxious to go to the seaside. The head of VTB, Andrei Kostin, rushed to Sochi yesterday to personally report to the Prime Minister on his progress. After hearing the report, Mr Putin told him to take a rest – for a week.
