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
Having concluded his visit to Mongolia, the Prime Minister reviewed his year in power at the Government House.
Vladimir Putin himself admits that he has got to grips with his prime ministerial duties.
The venue of the meeting between Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and the winners of the 4th Winter Spartakiad of Russian school students was Olympic Reserve School No.2 on Malaya Filevskaya Street.
Alexander Budberg’s article “Jamming-Proof” (MK, May 6) timed for the anniversary of Dmitry Medvedev’s inauguration had every chance of providing a model of a jubilee article. Alas, it was not.
The Russian Prime Minister has completed his three-day trip to Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Tokyo and Ulan-Bator.
On the eve of the crisis Russian foreign policy changed dramatically. The phrase “Russia has got up from its knees” lost any shade of irony and became an unassailable truth. Moscow was demonstrating that it was ready to spend any amount of money to look like a superpower. The crisis had a cooling effect, but it turned out that the Russian Government was prepared to save on anything but not on foreign policy ambitions.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited Mongolia yesterday. During the visit a $7 billion contract to develop Mongolian railways was signed. However, as he confided to our special correspondent, ANDREI KOLESNIKOV, he would have preferred to return to Russia not by train or even by plane, but riding a horse or a camel across Altai and Kalmykia.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin paid a working visit to Mongolia yesterday. In Ulan-Bator he had talks with all the country’s key leaders, visited an exhibition of agricultural machinery and, bumping in the street into Russian explorer Fyodor Konyukhov, immediately dispatched him on another expedition in the company of horses and camels, promising to join him later.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin spent the whole of yesterday in Mongolia. Ulan Bator gave him a royal welcome. The 15-km road from the airport to the state palace was lined with Mongolian soldiers.
Vladimir Putin invites Japanese businessmen to invest in Russian economy.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin offered Japan to cooperate more closely in oil and gas projects. Specifically, Japanese companies will be able to participate in the construction of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant and a gas chemical facility in the Primorye Territory.
