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 kremlin.ru site was active during Putin's presidency. Last spring, it was "inherited" by the new head of state, Dmitry Medvedev, while Putin moved to the www.government.ru site. By clicking "government chairman", visitors to the site can read the Prime Minister's biography and his speeches.
The Prime Minister is known to be allergic to the word "crisis." In fact, he admitted that much the other day: "We must get our terminology straight. I would like to say that many use the word ‘crisis' very loosely. It has affected the world financial system, while Russia is experiencing its consequences. The source of the problem should be traced to the US, where the collapsed system was born. The waves of that collapse are reaching us."
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin presided over a meeting on economic matters at Novo-Ogaryovo yesterday. He reiterated that the Government was not going to use the current crisis to expand its presence in the economy. Paradoxically, businessmen are asking for the opposite. A letter from the Russian Engineering Union to Mr Putin was unveiled yesterday, in which machine-builders suggest 14 measures of assistance to the sector, including the purchase of the securities of problem enterprises as well as preferential treatment in awarding state orders and a raise of import duties.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will launch his own site to provide web users with information on his activities. The web resource, developed by the Government's press service, will be launched soon as part of the official government website www.government.ru and will receive its own web address in 2008, likely to be premier.gov.ru.
The classified strategic document was approved by the Government behind closed doors. Not surprisingly, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin confined himself to conceptual remarks, though these remarks nonetheless gave an idea of what is in store for Russia in the coming decades. Under the strategy, the share of raw materials production in the economy should diminish, while the manufacture of machines should increase from 6% (today) to 14%.
Although Russia and China are both committed to expanding bilateral cooperation, they are having trouble negotiating key economic issues. This was confirmed by the October 28 Russian-Chinese inter-governmental talks in Moscow. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Wen Jiabao, Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China, spent virtually the entire day together.
The fourth meeting of the Gazprom board of directors, chaired by First Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov, faced a tough task. Leaders of oil and gas companies and senior officials of specialised departments that do not have representatives on Gazprom's board (the Energy Ministry and Federal Anti-Monopoly Service), were invited to discuss providing independent gas producers with non-discriminatory access to Russia's unified gas supply system.
Representatives from many sectors of the economy are asking for government money to help them through the financial crisis. Who are the recipients of this money? Will it happen that government support will go not to those who need it most but rather to those who are pushy and active in seeking out assistance from the government?
It is said that Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will keep up the tradition of annual televised question-and-answer sessions. AIF's commentary: Actually, Prime Minister Putin plans to reserve the right to hold presidential online sessions. Our source in the Kremlin said that, on the one hand, President Dmitry Medvedev has his own style of public speaking, a new topic of discussion.
First of all, a great amount of foreign exchange reserves and a small state debt. Due to the well-conceived ideas that were timely proposed by former Presidential Advisor Andrei Illarionov, Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin's untiring efforts, and ex-President Vladimir Putin's political support, the state debt has been repaid and foreign exchange reserves accumulated despite lobbying within the elite groups and pressure from public opinion.
