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
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin began a three-day working tour of the Far East (in and outside Russia). He visited Komsomolsk-on-Amur on Monday, will spend today in Tokyo and tomorrow in Ulan-Bator. In Komsomolsk-on-Amur the Prime Minister focused on ship-building and the new Russian plane Sukhoi Superjet-100.
On the eve of his visit to Japan, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin granted an interview to Japanese journalists. He was asked about the Kuril Islands, import duties on used cars, and his relations with President Dmitry Medvedev.
A surprise visit by Vladimir Putin’s motorcade after May 9th’s Victory Parade caused a commotion behind the scenes at the Olimpiisky Complex. Within half an hour, an urgent press release from the Azeri delegation announcing that the Russian Prime Minister had attended one of the Aisel and Arash duet’s rehearsals had landed in front of all the computers at the press centre and on all the chairs in the press conference room.
The Russian Prime Minister has begun his two-day visit to Japan. He is to meet with Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso, members of the business community, and politicians. Ten agreements are expected to emerge from the visit, most notably concerning cooperation between banks, as well as a memorandum on the construction of the Nizhnebureiskaya Hydroelectric Power Plant and the Far Eastern wind farm on Russky Island.
After arriving at Komsomolsk-on-Amur yesterday, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin inspected at the Sukhoi Holding Company’s flagship plant, which will produce the Superjet-100 plane, and promised to provide more money to increase the authorised capital of the Russian-Italian joint venture and speed up the plane’s deployment. During a conference, at which the fate of the shipbuilding industry in the Far East was discussed, he promised more money to the most underdeveloped enterprise in the sector, the Amur Shipbuilding Plant, and stunned everyone by announcing that the plant would be deprivatised, because, as he said, its current owners could not manage it properly. Our special correspondent ANDREI KOLESNIKOV reports on the details from Komsomolsk-on-Amur.
Foreigners arriving in Russia by ferry will be allowed to stay in Russia for 72 hours without a visa.
The Russian Government does not intend to lift the restrictions on the import of foreign cars, and regards the support of producers and not dealers as a priority, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said in an interview with the Japanese media ahead of his visit to Japan. The new custom duties on the import of foreign cars to Russia came into force as of January 12, 2009 in accordance with Government resolutions. RIA Novosti
Not all the countries that took part in the energy summit signed its declaration.
On May 9, Victory Day, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited the Olimpiisky Sports Complex, where preparation for the Eurovision song contest was in full swing. Kommersant’s ANDREI KOLESNIKOV was following the Prime Minister as he checked the preparations for the contest.
Sberbank received yet another bad asset – Amur Shipbuilding Plant (ASP). The bank will transfer the company to the state owned United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) and allocate additional $400 million to restructure the facility.
