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 Valdai Discussion Club unites political scientists, journalists and historians with an interest in Russia. It has gathered for its seventh meeting this year. The club members come from more than a dozen countries: interesting people who visit interesting places and discuss problems in an interesting format. Each time the club holds its meetings in different places around Russia, many of them such unusual destinations that not even many Russians know them.
United Russia leader Vladimir Putin admitted that he was not quite satisfied with the party’s activities.
Wildfire victims in the Vladimir Region have refused to move into the “shacks” which were built for them.
In Khabarovsk Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited an unusual cardio-vascular centre: it’s new and has everything it needs.
Dilapidated housing is an urgent issue for the Kamchatka Territory.
The prime minister has reprimanded the governor of the Kamchatka Territory for his failure to spend the budget money.
The current customs duty is to be repealed for fish harvested in Russian waters.
Yesterday Prime Minister Vladimir Putin made a contribution to scientific research. He assisted biologists in their study of gray whales in Kamchatka. On his fourth try the prime minister managed to hit a gray whale with a syringe shot from a crossbow in order to conduct a biopsy – to take a sample of skin. Scientists can use the sample to determine which group the whale belongs to.
On September 20, Vladimir Putin will hold a meeting on measures to support the Russian microelectronics market.
During his visit to Kamchatka, Vladimir Putin had an early rendezvous with bears and a late meeting with fishermen.
