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
The recent statement by the Prime Minister’s spokesman to radio Voice of Russia that it is natural for a President to criticise the Government’s work has highlighted several important points in Russian politics. “It is only natural for a President to criticise the Government, and it doesn’t mean there is a conflict,” Dmitry Peskov said. The reason for his statement was the host’s question about several criticisms by President Dmitry Medvedev of the Government’s slow implementation of the adopted anti-crisis policies.
In the first quarter of this year, AFK Sistema plans to make big purchases worth "billions of dollars." "We'll have big purchases in this quarter requiring billions of dollars," said Vladimir Yevtushenkov, chairman of the board and Sistema's main shareholder, in the back rooms of the World Economic Forum in Davos on January 29, 2009.
On Wednesday evening, Mr Putin made the opening speech at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland’s foggy Davos after Russia was invited to open the forum for the first time. All forum delegates showed up for his policy speech. This proves that the world’s business elite, which is scared stiff of the crisis, was eager to hear Mr Putin’s ideas.
National Bolshevik activists Sergei Grebnev, Ravil Bashirov, and Yevgeny Markin attempted to seize Vladimir Putin's public reception office on Konnogvardeisky Boulevard in St Petersburg yesterday as they demanded to see him for a discussion of anti-crisis measures. They entered the office unhampered, occupied a room, opened its windows, and hoisted black National Bolshevik flags.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s opening speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos will become a subject of many discussions far beyond Switzerland. The Russian Prime Minister has proposed what amounts to a new world order, which will replace the existing uni-polar world with the only leading nation and a single reserve currency.
Vladimir Putin mentioned excessive economic expectations in his speech, but then similar expectations were associated with the Prime Minister's speech itself.
Addressing the International Business Council at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sent a clear message to the administration of US President Barack Obama. He said a new page in bilateral relations could be opened by abolishing the Jackson-Vanik amendment.
The present-day global financial and economic crisis must persuade policy-makers to opt for an entirely different global economic regulation system. However, this extremely simple concept is hindered by an intricate conflict of interests
Each meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) leaves a mark in history and not necessarily an economic one.
There were even more heated discussions during the second day of the World Economic Forum (WEF). Although he did not take part in the plenary sessions, Vladimir Putin, just as a day earlier, was the main newsmaker of the day.
