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
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin arrived in Kislovodsk yesterday to conduct a meeting of the Regional Development Commission and to assess the health and recreation industry in the area.
Vladimir Putin urges regional governors meeting in Kislovodsk to cut spending on personal needs.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has signed an executive order fixing the size of bonuses to Russian athletes who win prizes in Olympic disciplines at various championships and to their coaches.
August has not yet brought any major upheavals, so stern critics of Russia have to make do with anniversaries and their analysis, which is a poor substitute for actual catastrophes. However, if stamped paper is not available, one writes on ordinary paper. The 10th anniversary of Mr Putin’s first appointment as prime minister is as good an occasion as any to announce that during the past decade Russia has managed to quarrel with the whole world and put itself in total isolation.
Ever since Dmitry Medvedev moved into the Kremlin and Putin into the Government House, high-ranking officials have been reluctant to discuss who would be the next presidential candidate nominated by the party in power.
As the crisis in Russia spreads and deepens discussions on how to cope with it become more complicated. They put on the agenda not only the issue of oil prices, but the quality of government, the whole social and political setup in this country.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has taken questions from foreign journalists.
Vladimir Putin is on a working leave in Sochi. Although he will not stay long, Sochi, as usual, will temporarily become the “nerve centre of Russian politics”.
Even as Vladimir Putin was speaking in Irkutsk about the great role Siberia plays in Russia, the Kurzanka River which flows near Irkutsk burst its banks and flooded part of federal highway M-53 linking Siberia to Russia. The virtual separation of Russia from half of the country – Eastern Siberia and the Far East – in a place called Traktovo-Kurzan was as humdrum and trite as the hackneyed phrases about Russia’s might increasing due to Siberia.
Transcript of the August 7, 2009 programme.
There is no plan, no future, but there is something to lose.
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