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
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev yesterday chaired a Security Council meeting convened to discuss Russia’s national security strategy until 2020. The document was presented by Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev.
In the first ten days of April, a commission of the United Russia party will complete the certification of Vladimir Putin’s reception offices in the regions, and may subsequently fire some of their ineffective managers. Irina Nagornykh, a special correspondent of this newspaper, says the Prime Minister’s reception office in Moscow is bustling with activity, with people willing to entrust their personal problems to Mr Putin.
Russian experts remain at a loss trying to figure out whether the country's economic system will follow the European or the Russian model amid the current global crisis.
Yesterday each State Duma party submitted to the Duma Organisation and Regulation Committee three questions for Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, which he is supposed to answer when delivering an annual report to the Duma. The date of the Prime Minister’s address was pushed back from April 2 to April 6.
Participants in the last Davos forum describe how a top manager at a Russian government bank visualized the future of the global financial system. According to him, the financial system will not change. A crisis like this one takes place once in 60 years. Nobody will live to see the next one, so why change anything at all?
Implementation of all socio-economic projects in Chechnya will be continued. This statement was made by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin during his meeting with Ramzan Kadyrov, at which the Chechen President reviewed the situation in the region.
What exactly will Prime Minister Vladimir Putin officially open in July if there is only dirt, grass, and two cowsheds instead of the Azov-City Gambling Zone?
A scandal along the corridors of the Kremlin continues for more than a week now. The uproar was provoked by one of President Medvedev’s unofficial advisors, Yevgeny Gontmakher, who publicly described Vladislav Surkov as “the Mikhail Suslov of our time” [Suslov was a prominent figure in the Communist Party, a key political ideologist during the Stalin years and beyond]. Gontmakher explained that Surkov is defending the current political system because discussions about reforms that have not been staged in advance in the Cabinet threaten Surkov’s own position of the nation’s main ideologist rather that public tranquillity.
“In 2000, business did not feel any special pressure from the authorities. There were only two victims, and both were obsessed with politics – Berezovsky and Gusinsky,” a prominent businessman recalled. Even at that time, Boris Berezovsky himself believed that Vladimir Putin was obliged to send him to prison if he considered this a rational step.
The global economic crisis and the effect it has on Russia have been widely discussed by our media organisations. Today, we will give the floor to two radically different points of view, two voices which do not belong to supporters of the Government’s policy. We offer you several excerpts from a report by politician Boris Nemtsov and economist Vladimir Milov (text is given according to the website www.nemtsov.ru), and some commentaries by economists Vladislav Inozemtsev and Nikita Krichevsky, known for their articles published in many newspapers, including Nezavisimaya Gazeta. We hope that this article, regardless of the offshoots of our political discourse, will serve as a useful exchange of views.
