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 day after meeting with Silvio Berlusconi Vladimir Putin received Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan at his Riviera residence in Sochi. The Russian Prime Minister drove to the meeting at the wheel of his own Niva, bought about a month earlier: license number 001, 270 kilometres. The car, in a camouflage paint scheme (including the interior) was delivered from Togliatti to Sochi on the same day.
Before meeting Russian President Medvedev in Moscow, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi spent some time with his counterpart and friend Vladimir Putin in Sochi. Vladimir Putin personally met with Berlusconi at the airport and, taking to the wheel of his Mercedes, drove him to the hotel Radisson Lazurnaya, where the Prime Ministers held talks and witnessed the signing of several documents related to the implementation of the South Stream project.
The 54th Eurovision Contest in Russia has ended; the 55th will be hosted by Oslo, Norway.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin received his Turkish counterpart Recep Erdogan at his Riviera residence in Sochi last Saturday. The Russian Prime Minister arrived at the venue of the talks driving his recently acquired Russian-made Niva.
Gazprom will double the capacity of the South Stream pipeline and consider building a second line of Blue Stream.
Vladimir Putin flew into Sochi from Mongolia on Friday night. Having caught up with his sleep to the sound of the falling rain (there have been torrential downpours in Sochi), the Prime Minister met with the President of Abkhazia, Sergei Bagapsh.
Today Russia finally has an answer to the European Union’s plans for the Nabucco gas pipeline. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is meeting with his Italian counterpart Silvio Berlusconi, in Sochi, where they will issue a joint announcement on the South Stream gas pipeline project. In addition, Gazprom is signing a corresponding agreement with Greece’s DESFA, Bulgaria’s Bulgarian Energy Holding, and Serbia’s Srbijagas. However, even Silvio Berlusconi’s purely symbolic participation in this event is something for which Russian business will have to pay dearly.
Yesterday Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and the President of the Republic of Abkhazia Sergei Bagapsh, met at Putin’s Sochi residence Riviera, where the President of Abkhazia said he was offered a loan of no less than one billion roubles. Kommersant’s special correspondent Andrei Kolesnikov was surprised that the President of Abkhazia does not consider this a significant sum of money for either himself or Vladimir Putin.
Yesterday Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with Sergei Bagapsh, the President of Abkhazia, at his Sochi residence Riviera. After the meeting, during which the two leaders discussed “mutually beneficial projects”, such as energy, railways, the sea shelf, and tourism, Mr Bagapsh told journalists that Abkhazia would get a loan of between 1 and 1.5 billion roubles. Moreover, he said that Abkhazia would closely follow developments regarding Georgia’s progress in joining NATO.
On Thursday the International Olympic Committee’s coordinating commission concluded their inspection of Sochi by dining with Vladimir Putin. In the two days that the IOC experts spent in the city that is to host the 2014 winter Olympics they saw, as Jean-Claude Killy said, “mind-blowing presentations and animated films” as well as the construction of the port and the Roza Khutor ski resort. The inspectors’ verdict? Sochi’s preparations for 2014 are on schedule.
