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
Boris Gryzlov’s son and Vladimir Putin’s niece will run youth affairs in St Petersburg.
As of March 1 the Tver Carriage Plant (TVZ), which employs a workforce of 10,000, has been shifted to a three-day week, and workers’ wages have been cut making it a problem for them to pay back their credits. On Wednesday the Prime Minister came to the rescue of the workers and the people in the region. “I talked with the head of Sberbank on my way here. He will give instructions to the Tver branch to carry out a total restructuring. He will do it today,” Mr Putin promised.
Russians may soon have a female Prime Minister Putin, though not of the Russian Federation, but of the youth government of St Petersburg. She is not only the Russian Prime Minister’s namesake, but also Vladimir Putin’s niece. MK has contacted Vera Putina, and asked her about the plans of the youth government of St Petersburg, and whether she has ever sought the advice of her famous uncle.
Interview with Rainer Riess, managing director of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
Last week Prime Minister Putin delivered his annual report to the Duma and the deputies asked him questions.
Presenting the Government’s report to the State Duma last week Vladimir Putin confirmed the Government’s commitment to the flat income tax rate introduced in Russia in 2001. “On the face of it, of course, this is not very fair,” he admitted, but he chose not to try to convince the deputies that it was fair “on closer inspection.” The Prime Minister rolled out two arguments. First, he noted “when we introduced the flat scale, tax revenue increased by 12 times in eight years.” Second, he mentioned abuses and admitted that “we do not administer this properly: most probably… if we go back to the differentiated rate… no social justice will result”.
The state-controlled Sverbank may acquire a “golden share” in Yandex, the largest search system in the Russian Internet, two sources in the Russian government-controlled banks told Vedomosti.
The Prime Minister, while meeting the employees of a Tver factory, reassured them that the financial crisis would not last as long as the Finance Minister predicts.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited the Tver Railway Carriage Factory yesterday, and gave it financial assistance. In the opinion of Kommersant’s special correspondent ANDREI KOLESNIKOV, the employees of the factory came away from the meeting with the Prime Minister with one pervading feeling: no matter how much the Government gives out during the financial crisis, it must give out still more.
Maurice Druon, author, Resistance fighter, former Culture Minister (1973-1974), one of 40 “perpetual” French academics (1966), and recipient of the Legion of Honour Grand Cross, died in his Paris home on April 14. He would have been 91 in ten days’ time. In Russia, the author of the seven-volume “The Accursed Kings” (1955-1977) was less well known but better loved than in his own country.
