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 has resurrected the idea of a single tax on real estate, which may help municipal governments financially through the financial crisis and reduce prices for high-end housing.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said in Moscow yesterday that Ukraine is in favour of Russia taking part in the modernisation of the Ukrainian Gas Transportation System (GTS) despite the fact that it runs counter to Ukraine’s Brussels agreement with the EU. However, as Kommersant’s ANDREI KOLESNIKOV observed at first hand, these words cut little ice with Vladimir Putin who seemed to be disappointed with this Ukrainian negotiator like with all the previous ones.
Ukraine offers Russia to modernise its gas transportation system together.
Vladimir Putin and Yulia Tymoshenko have discussed modernisation of the gas transportation system.
Gazprom lifts sanctions it imposed on Kiev for failing to buy all the contracted gas in exchange for inviting Moscow to take part in Ukraine’s gas transportation system.
The Central Election Commission has turned a blind eye on the fact that the Sverdlovsk Region Governor and the Mayor of Yekaterinburg have waived their parliamentary mandates. This will enable the two vote-getters (or “locomotives”) to keep their places on the bench of stand-by candidates.
The proposal is contained in the Basic Guidelines for Customs Tariff Policy (Vedomosti has a copy of it) which the Budget Commission considered on Monday under Prime Minister Putin’s chairmanship. “The Guidelines have been approved and will be submitted to the Government meeting in May,” says a Government official.
The Government has come up with a new arrangement for anti-crisis policy: pilot projects for which the ministers will be personally responsible. The Russian Government discussed the first such project, Modernisation of the Pension System, at its meeting yesterday.
Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev arrived in Moscow to discuss gas. He will meet with Vladimir Putin today.
