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
Following Boris Gryzlov, Vladimir Putin will visit Sukhumi.
Prime Minister Putin: I believe that five ice arenas on the Black Sea coast are too many.
It has been a year since Dmitry Medvedev assumed the office of President and Vladimir Putin that of Prime Minister. Time puts everything in its place, and many things have become clearer during the year of dual power.
Talks with the Obama Administration begin in Moscow.
Kommersant has learned that the company Ernst & Young has evaluated the 28% stake in Moscow City Telephone Network (MGTS) belonging to Svyazinvest at more than 12 billion roubles. Earlier, the principal owner of AFK Sistema, Vladimir Yevtushenkov, told Prime Minister Vladimir Putin that he was ready to give back to the state 25% plus one share in Svyazinvest (23.7 billion roubles) in exchange for a write-off of its debt to Sberbank (26 billion roubles) and a share of the state holding in MGTS (at present Sistema owns 66% of voting shares).
The Government Sustained Economy Commission headed by First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov has approved the preparation of amendments to legislation that supports budget settlements under state order with enterprises through special accounts. The proposals on introducing a special procedure for disbursing budget allocations for these purposes have been developed on a directive of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, and the specific measures were developed by the Finance Ministry.
The State Duma last week admitted for consideration a bill proposed by the President whereby the Chairman of the Constitutional Court would be nominated by the head of state and confirmed by the Federation Council. If the amendment is adopted, Russia will lose its last government body that is not part of the vertical power structure.
Russia is full of surprises. Nowhere else have well-educated members of the Young Communist League grown rich as quickly by consistently applying capitalist methods of robbery. And nowhere else have these new capitalists grown poor again because of capitalism.
The Kremlin has long been urging the need to drop the Cold War clichés with regard to Russia. Our commentator IGOR FEDYUKIN has discovered in the book by American analyst Jeffrey Mankoff practical tips for Barack Obama on how to successfully “reset” the relations with Russia.
Russia and Europe are engaged in a war of nerves, each lobbying for their own massive gas pipeline projects: South Stream and Nabucco. Nevertheless, however protracted and costly this war may be, Russia is almost certain to lose its status as an energy superpower.
