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
Vladimir Yakunin will remain CEO of Russian Railways for four more years, according to the government decree. The Russian government has long kept the public in suspense: the previous announcement of Yakunin’s 3-year reappointment was made on June 12, 2008.
Amendments to the Code of Administrative Offences, under which careless state officials will face harsher penalties, have been approved. Complaints about the official inaction and abuse are rampant and often justified, explained Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at a meeting of the Government Presidium.
It will be easier for Russian companies to work on the global market if Russia accedes to the World Trade Organisation, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said.
The prime minister meets with the Russia’s Transport Workers’ Union.
The prime minister visited Moscow State University of Railway Engineering, where he was shown a multimedia classroom featuring Russia’s largest model of the transport system.
Olympic construction which requires 1,4 trillion roubles of investment has been removed from the list of state programmes.
Russian and Ukrainian prime ministers discuss gas and transit prices.
Vladimir Putin talks with members of the Olympic construction team around a campfire.
Oil will come to Sochi via the Black Sea bed.
The agency has also received several dozen project proposals.
