Today Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will report to the Duma deputies on the work done for the third time. Izvestia found out what questions deputies have prepared and recalled what they discussed during Putin’s previous two visits.
In May Russia will mark the 1000-day point on the road to the 2014 Olympics in Sochi. Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak reported to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin that Russia has traversed the bigger part of the road.
Putin promised to discuss the social issues with working people’s associations.
The Russian government is becoming more and more devoted to hockey. It’s obvious that hockey is steadily elbowing out tennis, downhill skiing, and judo from the list of most popular sports among high officials. Last weekend, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin followed suit and took to the ice.
The Russian Academy of Sciences’ new Snow Leopard project got into the media spotlight after a recent visit by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to a nature reserve in South Siberia.
Kiev wants cheap gas and long-term gas transit contracts.
Retirement pensions will be indexed starting August 1 if inflation exceeds 6% in January-June.
The government will oversee the spending of maternity capital assets more closely. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin noted that it is inadmissible to misuse maternity capital. The Healthcare and Social Development Ministry and the Pension Fund have drafted proposals to deal with confidence tricksters.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited a Mother and Child center in order to assess the work of clinics nationwide.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin held a meeting in St Petersburg on Friday on the development of Russia’s power equipment sector. He said the government should create conditions that support production of national power equipment, because “if we import everything, we would all quickly degrade here.”