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
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin topped the monthly list after analysis of publications in federal print media and leading TV channels. The Prime Minister's information frame was largely shaped by the financial crisis. He scored more points with each material in central print media on bailout measures taken by the Government. In late September, Putin said that any bank or company could apply to Vnesheconombank for a loan to refinance prior foreign loans. His next statement that the country's long-term development programmes won't be cut or suspended brought him additional points.
Having occupied key power posts, Vladimir Putin has stayed active in Russian politics. His strategy appeared to be sound, well thought-out and guaranteed to ward off any dissatisfaction or deviations from the "Putin course". It was assumed that the only threat to the said "course" could come from people who wanted to do things differently or in a new way.
According to Kommersant's information, the most frequent complaints people file with Vladimir Putin's public reception offices are connected with housing and utilities, social problems and poor performance of judiciary and law enforcement bodies. No significant numbers of complaints about the crisis and its consequences have yet been registered.
Oliver Stone's new film interests the public on both sides of the Atlantic. Without going into its merits, MK wonders why Russians don't make movies about presidents.
Whatever bad things I know about the United States, I know from Americans-reporters, writers and cinematographers. I don't know anything from American politicians-they are as full of deceit as their Russian counterparts.
It is crazy to have a tiger at home. I can imagine the Prime Minister walking it on a leash, playing with it, and petting its whiskered cheeks-felines do like it. At any rate, cats do. If you pet them the right way, they purr.
"We have no crisis," Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has continually repeated as his mantra lately. Yet emergency measures in the budget policy for some reason are needed... Yesterday, the Duma debated a bill that would deprive Parliament of its only significant constitutional right - control over budget spending.
The daily Kommersant has learned that Delovaya Rossiya has asked Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to support the processing sector. Delovaya Rossiya's requests are clear: a two-year tax credit instalment payment for the value added tax and the income tax, one-year state guarantee for half the credits requested from the banks, and to make the Central Bank begin a staged reduction of the refinancing rate.
The word "agent", which has many positive and negative connotations, usually implies some notable plot twists.
Not Your Usual Art Show. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin featured in 69 informal portraits. Visitors are flocking to this unusual merry exhibition. All smile at the sight of Mr Putin kissing a horse on the nose in one photograph, walking through a wheat field with an angry face in another, dancing in a circle with old ladies in ethnic costumes in a third, and playing a ball game in a formal suit in a fourth.
