Yesterday, United Russia (UR) held a meeting in Moscow to pick up investment projects for the development of the Far Eastern Federal District. The best of these will be presented to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at an inter-regional conference in Khabarovsk in early December.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin took the wheel again. This time, it was a Formula One racecar rather than the Lada Kalina sport car he bought not so long ago, but the color was the same – yellow.
Yesterday in Ivanovo, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced the government's decision to double the funding of healthcare. Kommersant special correspondent Andrei Kolesnikov describes how the prime minister watched a 38- year-old patient with circulation failure undergo treatment. Doctors were trying to avoid craniotomy.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is now ahead of Pope Benedict XVI.
Renault and Nissan cars will soon feature the Lada Kalina wheelbase.
Residents of the village Verkhnyaya Vereya are already used to visits form high-ranking officials. The wildfires that raged through the forest canopy on July 29 burnt down several hundred houses in a matter of minutes.
Vladimir Putin opens the heating season in Verkhnyaya Vereya.
Russian Airborne Troops Commander Lt. Gen. Vladimir Shamanov recently survived a terrible car accident. Shamanov's BMW crashed into a MAZ truck that veered into the oncoming lane. The general's driver was killed, and the commander himself was badly injured and taken to hospital. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited Shamanov at the hospital and urged him to keep positive in spite of everything.
On Wednesday Prime Minister Vladimir Putin made a one-day trip to Kiev to hold talks with Ukrainian leaders and to conduct a meeting of the economic cooperation committee of the Russian-Ukrainian Intergovernmental Commission.
Russia should maintain its current rate of oil production at about 500 million tons a year. The conversion rate should be increased substantially from the current average of 70% for the industry as a whole.