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
Boris Minayev’s book about the first Russian president, Boris Yeltsin, with a foreword by Vladimir Putin is to be brought out by the Molodaya Gvardiya Publishers at the end of August. Some time before that, the magazine Ogonyok published excerpts from the book and Putin’s address to readers. Here is what the prime minister wrote about the first president of Russia.
The prime minister has visited the island of Samoilovksy near Tiksi, where a Russian-German expedition has been working for more than 12 years.
The number of victims from the mine has increased to 68. Another wounded miner died yesterday in the hospital in Mezhdurechensk.
Russia has been experiencing an unprecedented drought, the most serious one in 130 years of weather observations. The Volga Region and Central Russia have been the hardest hit. The main grain producing areas in the south and in Siberia have been mostly spared by the drought, although the harvest there is lower than in the previous year.
The ineffectiveness of budget spending doubled last year, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said at a meeting of the Government Presidium.
President Dmitry Medvedev has lifted the state of emergency declaration in Mordovia and the Moscow and Nizhni Novgorod Regions, while Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has summed up the regional administrations’ efforts in responding to the wildfires. The head of the Federal Agency for Forestry Alexei Savinov has been fired.
Russian flagship carrier Aeroflot yesterday announced plans to buy 126 Russian airliners before 2020. As of today, the company has only six Il-96 jets in its fleet and a contract for 30 Sukhoi Superjets. However, the delivery dates under that contract have been moved several times. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin insisted recently that Aeroflot buy Russian-made equipment.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin explains to developers what economy housing is all about.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin instructed the governors to take measures in view of the powerful cyclone approaching the European part of Russia.
In four years, every fourth family will be able to afford a comfortable flat in Russia.
