Putin meets with parliamentary parties before government report.
Putin names development milestones for hybrid automobile industry.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has urged ministers to avoid simple straightforward solutions and criticised the Finance Ministry’s proposal to sharply raise alcohol and tobacco excise tax.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin held a meeting on Russia’s socio-economic strategy until 2020 in his residence in Novo Ogaryovo yesterday. He discussed new tactics as opposed to adjustments for the crisis. A decision had to be reached concerning the national budget for the next few years.
The Sheremetyevo and Vnukovo airports will become an integral whole – for now only on paper – as the federal government purchases a large chunk of the Moscow city government’s shares in Vnukovo. The airports will later be connected via express trains.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has criticised the international coalition’s policy on Libya.
The Russian Figure Skating Federation yesterday sent its official bid to the International Skating Union (ISU) to hold the World Figure Skating Championships in Moscow instead of Tokyo.
The South Stream gas pipeline project will proceed according to the original plan, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin assured his Slovenian counterpart, Borut Pahor.
The tragedy in Japan has prompted Russia to return to its shelved projects to supply Japan with electricity. It may take two years to carry them out. Electricity capacity would amount to about six gigawatts.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will head the supervisory board of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Organising Committee.