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
Before introducing amendments to this year’s budget, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will discuss the amended parameters of the nation’s main financial document with the opposition parties in the Duma. The Communists are expected to be the first to meet with the Prime Minister. The KPRF at the Duma has prepared an updated anti-crisis package.
For three years the Government will be paying double compensation to Russians for “Soviet-era deposits”.
The Federal Antimonopoly Service Directorate in the Krasnoyarsk Territory has fined “Rys” (Lynx), a local shop that sells fishing and hunting gear. The antimonopoly body claims that the merchants unlawfully used a photograph of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Minister of Emergencies Sergei Shoigu fishing in Tyva for advertising purposes. The shop may face a fine of up to 500,000 roubles.
Addressing a meeting of the Government Presidium in Moscow yesterday, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin warned that Russia could suspend supplies of our energy resources to Ukraine and Europe. He also promised another $500 million loan to Belarus, which is a more reliable partner. He also appointed his reliable Minister of Agriculture, Alexei Gordeyev, as Governor of the Voronezh Region.
At a government presidium meeting on March 5, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin asked the Federal Anti-Monopoly Service to look into a paradoxical situation that had evolved in the agricultural sector: wholesale prices of oils and lubricants are rising despite the stabilisation of oil prices at $40-$45 per barrel.
The rouble will not fall – a promise made yesterday by the Russian Prime Minister at a meeting with members of the public. He said that even a temporary fall in oil prices could not threaten the rouble. Experts say that the Central Bank has no grounds to devalue the rouble at present, although they note that Mr Putin's words should be taken only as a short-term forecast. There are currently no preconditions for a fall of the rouble. In fact, the rouble could strengthen. That is what Prime Minister Putin said when he met with members of the public in a job centre in Podolsk.
Last February there was something like the thaw – well, not quite the thaw, but a new programme was launched, which sought to free Russia of its current masters.
Yesterday Russia’s unemployment figures fell - by two people at least. The Minister for Healthcare and Social Development, Tatyana Golikova, set the precedent. She spent Wednesday morning at the Federation Council (see page 12) but in the afternoon she found herself in Podolksk, near Moscow. Having met an unemployed cook, Mikhail Vershinin, in the town centre, the minister got him a job at the ZiO-Podolsk Machine-Building Factory loading cargo.
In the first ten months of his premiership, Mr Putin has visited four universities (in Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk, St Petersburg and Vladivostok), but not once (at least publicly) has he chaired a meeting on the issues of higher education. Yesterday the Prime Minister filled this gap.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin paid a visit to the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MFTI) at Dolgoprudny, outside Moscow, yesterday. There he inspected several laboratories and a student hostel, and chaired a meeting on higher education. But his most important discovery was that there were such people on Earth as MFTI students, and the Prime Minister hugely enjoyed his conversation with them.
