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 main confirmation of a consumer’s rights, the receipt, will be discarded. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin promised small business that the requirement to use cash registers would be eliminated. The respective draft law will be introduced by July 1. MK examined how consumers would protect their rights without receipts.
According to the latest VTsIOM (Russian Public Opinion Research Centre) poll, only 13% of respondents expect that Government measures will result in a quick, positive effect, while 32% of respondents hope that things will change for the better in the medium term. This means that less than 45% of the population thinks positively of the Government’s anti-crisis plan. Still, the number of those strongly critical of the authorities is not high - only 8%. Even fewer are calling for the Government’s resignation – 1%. The rest have either no hopes or opinion.
The recent National Forum on Small and Medium Businesses has set some important precedents. For the first time it was attended by the country’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who promised unprecedented measures of support, beginning with tax breaks and access to government tenders and ending with the promise to pull down administrative barriers.
The United States says it doubts the feasibility of the South Stream project.
Most Russians perceive the Chechen President as a boor. But for the Chechens Mr Kadyrov is a prophet and a tribune, embodying the hopes of a long-suffering people. A devout Muslim, he fits in well within the narrow framework of the values that prevail in that republic. He prays daily in the new mosque, he does not drink or smoke. He is thought to be a guarantor of peace for which a million people yearn after two bloody wars for independence. He is the one who will restore the devastated country, the Chechens believe.
The court has decreed the release of former Yukos lawyer Svetlana Bakhmina. President Medvedev has met with human rights activists. The liberal-minded public is talking of a new thaw. But author and television presenter Andrei Maximov thinks a thaw should come from within you, not outside of you.
What was so much argued for by MPs, businessmen, governors, workers, farmers, and others has finally become reality – the Bank of Russia reduced the refinancing rate. As of last week, the rate was 12.5%. Public pressure only partially contributed to the decision. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin had the final say on the issue. He sent the head of the Central Bank a subtle, but compelling message to act.
In late March, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin promised 25 billion roubles to automotive giant AvtoVAZ. The state-owned Russian Technology Corporation will receive the total sum from the federal budget and will issue it to AvtoVAZ in the form of a one-year interest-free loan.
Vladimir Putin criticises Government officials for desultory lawmaking.
The Russian delegation to Sofia will be led by Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko.
