The government has instructed domestic oil companies to speed up the development of their projects in the Far East. Rosneft will start to develop Sakhalin-5 in six years. It plans to build the first stage of the Primorsky petrochemical plant, at an estimated $6 billion, within six years as well.
During his visit to Sakhalin Prime Minister Vladimir Putin saw for himself that radiation background was normal and he instructed all services to stay on high alert in case the Japanese Fukushima-1 Nuclear Power Station (NPS) got out of control.
The prime minister learned a secret about American pigs from the Voronezh regional governor.
On March 15, Vladimir Putin demanded a complete report on the Russian nuclear sector from the Energy Ministry, Rosatom, and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.
Specific projects are United Russia’s main election technology, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, leader of the pro-Kremlin United Russia party, told partisan activists at his Novo-Ogaryovo residence near Moscow.
A new nuclear power plant, due to be built by Russian specialists in Belarus, will be absolutely safe, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin assured Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and Prime Minister Mikhail Myasnikovich during their negotiations in Minsk.
Special economic zones must continue granting privileges and benefits, and foreign companies must be encouraged to become residents there, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said at a meeting on incentives for regional innovation in Tomsk.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin commented on the results of the March 13 regional elections during his visit to Tomsk. He spoke as the United Russia party leader.
The government decided to offer increased liquefied gas and coal supplies to Japan at a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
Governors across Russia have failed to open planned perinatal centres and revise the healthcare modernisation programmes in their regions. During a recent meeting in Ryazan, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said he will not tolerate this kind of attitude.