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
The prime minister met with Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov, Liberal Democrat Vladimir Zhirinovsky and Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov. They discussed the budget, the terrorist act in Grozny and US chicken imports.
The government has quickly made good on its promise given at the October 11 meeting to grant privileges to liquefied natural gas projects. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed a draft plan for LNG development at Yamal that stipulates a 12-year tax exemption for Novatek’s South Tambeiskoye LNG project. The respective agencies are to submit, before yearend, a draft resolution which also cancels export duties for all the LNG and gas condensate produced in Yamal.
Russia has long discussed visa-free travel with Europe, albeit with little results. As EU authorities keep stalling, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin decided to try another approach. He asked foreign business leaders – (members of the Foreign Investment Advisory Council, FIAC) – directly, to lobby for this policy in their countries.
The families of those killed in the flood in the Krasnodar Territory will receive 1 million roubles each, and 160,000 roubles each to other families affected by the flood, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin told the leadership of the United Russia party.
The Russian, Belarusian and Kazakh prime ministers discuss the common market.
The prime minister’s family takes part in the census.
Russia has again raised the issue of a common currency with Belarus.
And what Bernie Ecclestone and his companion, Fabiana, could have been thinking.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin attended the signing of a contract that now makes Sochi, the city of the 2014 Winter Olympics, the official host of Formula One racing from 2014 to 2020.
Speaking at the session of the General Council of Deloyaya Rossiya (DR), a public organisation representing medium-sized business, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin urged entrepreneurs to give up shady business practices. In return, the executives promised Putin to work on making their businesses transparent.
