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
By joining the international campaign against money laundering and legalisation of criminal incomes Russia did not only bolster its reputation but reduced economic crime.
The particularly principled churchgoers who worship at the Life-giving Trinity on Sparrow Hills do not want to pray to the Russian government. They are plunged into embarrassment by the portraits of Vladimir Putin and Yuri Luzhkov that hang in the cathedral’s entrance hall just beneath those of the three Patriarchs of All Russia.
Officials and experts propose even more anti-crisis innovations.
Yesterday, preliminary information from TNS Russia emerged about viewers’ response to the TV coverage of Mr Putin’s appearance at the State Duma, where the Prime Minister described the anti-crisis measures his Government has taken
The programme for the relocation to Russia of Russians living abroad, initiated by President Vladimir Putin in 2006, has practically collapsed. Only 10,000 people have moved to Russia, instead of the expected 300,000 a year. Yesterday the head of the Federal Migration Service (FMS) Konstantin Romodanovsky nonetheless announced that the programme was not on the verge of collapse, and that it was “still fully functional”. Opponents of the project think that its conditions are “only suitable for those people who need to flee or who have nowhere else to go.”
Prime Minister Putin devoted so much time to speaking about social justice as if he had a mind to become the leader of Sergei Mironov’s Just Russia party. Perversely, justice each time turned out to be an antipode of economic expediency.
A Russian-Italian Economic Forum opened in Moscow yesterday. The meeting was not cancelled in spite of the devastating earthquake that had hit Italy (the participants had arrived in Moscow before the disaster struck). Only Prime Minister Berlusconi cancelled his visit. Originally Mr Berlusconi and Mr Putin were to attend the forum together. In the event, the Russian Prime Minister came alone.
Early data published yesterday from the Bank of Russia on the structure of foreign debt show that the rate of repayment of bank and corporate loans has dropped by 40% during the first quarter of the year. The external private sector debt dropped by $28.9 billion during the first quarter of 2009 compared with $47.4 billion in the previous quarter. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin declared the day before that companies have “in recent months” restructured $174 billion worth of debts, but the Central Bank figures do not bear it out.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and the head of the Palestinian National Authority Mahmoud Abbas held talks in Moscow yesterday. On the previous day Mahmoud Abbas met with President Dmitry Medvedev. As a result of the meetings, the Russian leadership pledged to support the peace process in the Middle East.
Prime Minister Putin’s speech at the State Duma.
