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
Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin arrived in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, for talks with President Viktor Yanukovych.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin described the release of a school-adapted version of Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago as a landmark event at a meeting on Tuesday with the author’s widow, Natalia.
Yesterday at a special government meeting, ministers and regional leaders as well as the heads of Russia’s largest industrial companies working in the region - Vladimir Potanin, Oleg Deripaska, Alexander Abramov and others - convened to discuss the implementation of priority investment projects in Siberia.
Government determined to change Siberia’s grim image by 2020.
The committee on economic cooperation, to meet in Kiev tomorrow, will be co-chaired by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart, Mykola Azarov. Eleven documents are to be signed in Kiev, but as of yesterday, their list and contents were still being coordinated in Moscow with a Ukrainian delegation led by First Deputy Prime Minister Andriy Klyuev.
The economy has recovered from the problems created by last summer’s wildfires and resumed growth, medicine prices are going down, and the IMF has redistributed quotas in favour of developing countries, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was told during a meeting of the government presidium.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin began yesterday’s government meeting by congratulating Sergei Sobyanin, who was appointed mayor of Moscow.
Russia has decided to take part in another sports competition – this time for the right to host the world hockey championship in 2016. The government has supported the Ice Hockey Federation's initiative.
MTS, MegaFon and VimpelCom have decided not to wait for sanctions imposed by the Federal Antimonopoly Service and have cut prices for international roaming.
This is what the Prime Minister said at yesterday’s meeting.
