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
According to Mr Gryzlov, given shrinking state revenues, the population could join the investment process: the anti-crisis plan should identify 10-15 state-backed priority construction projects. The broad masses could contribute to financing these projects by buying non-inscribed investment bonds, some of which would be issued by the Finance Ministry, Mr Gryzlov elaborated his dream that harked back to the Soviet-era projects of the Baikal-Amur Railway and the Virgin Lands development.
Russia is ready to propose to the United Arab Emirates joint projects in the sphere of space exploration, the nuclear industry and of course the power industry, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday during a meeting in Moscow with the Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and the Ruler of Dubai, Mohammed Al Maktoum.
Initially the G20 summit, which is due to begin in London tomorrow, was expected to come up with revolutionary solutions. High-ranking Russian and Chinese representatives spoke of the need to replace the dollar with a supranational currency and Russia even tabled it as an official motion. True, this week Presidential Aide Arkady Dvorkovich specified that this was an idea for the future and that our country would be happy to join the general discussion rather than pressing for its own agenda to be adopted.
Vladimir Putin yesterday met with the Vice President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the ruler of Dubai, Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.
The world crisis and the weakening of the US, which may lead to that country’s disintegration, will change the geopolitical map of the world. Over the next few years the former USSR countries will rally around Russia to form a new Eurasian Union with a single currency, parliament and Vladimir Putin as its ruler. The Eurasian Union will be modelled on the European Union as a result of which there will be three power centres in the world: China, EU-1 and EU-2. The author of this sensational forecast is Professor Igor Panarin, Doctor of Political Science from the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Diplomatic Academy.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited AvtoVAZ on Monday. His visit was a windfall for Russia’s largest automaker and its workers. The auto giant’s stocks surged 40% as a result.
The economy may be in recession, but political parties are plowing on through their usual cycles without reaction to a minor thing like economic crisis. Political routines are inviolable and cannot be affected by time or trouble. If Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is scheduled to meet with party leaders he will do so, whatever happens. Only this time the meeting was formally devoted to the Government’s bailout plan, a high-profile policy issue.
The Russian President decided to take a leaf out of Vladimir Putin’s book. Not only did he board a fighter jet, but he told the BBC channel he was ready to pose topless. That was a joke of course, but he made it perfectly clear to the BBC host that major decisions in modern Russia are made by the president. The incumbent president, that is.
Vladimir Putin has expressed a willingness to adjust the government’s anti-crisis measures after discussions with opposition leaders. The opposition, however, is not ready to support the new budget.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau posed a question some 250 years ago: Is law based governance possible and reliable? The philosopher could not give an unequivocal answer to his question. The principle of “social contract” that he formulated was a rather abstract concept. In recent months, Russian analysts, following Lenin’s methodology, have been quickly moving from the abstract to something more real. The new social contract for Russia is discussed by Yevgeny Gontmakher and Alexander Auzan, Andrei Kolesnikov and Andrei Piontkovsky. The declared objective is extremely ambitious – to re-constitute Russia.
