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
Sochi will become the first Russian city with access for disabled people, Vladimir Putin promised at a meeting with the employees of the Moscow Business Centre for Disabled last Saturday. But it will not be the only one.
The Russian Government Presidium discusses geological exploration and oil export duties.
The Russian budget will receive an additional 353 billion roubles within three years from a new taxation system for East Siberian oil fields, Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin told Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at yesterday’s Government Presidium meeting. The ministers did not take a final decision on the new tax schedule, but they decided how to proceed with natural resources’ restoration. The state will finance the early stages of exploration.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko dropped in on the Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin Friday night, arriving at his Novoye Ogaryovo residence right after a meeting with President Dmitry Medvedev.
Russian National Exhibition opened in Paris.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin may or may not have decided whether he will run for reelection in Russia’s 2012 presidential elections, but he clearly is reluctant to make his plans public at this point.
And Israel heard about its deed in passing.
Russia’s democracy had distinct liberal leanings in the 1990s. It seemed in those days that the individual liberties the public came to enjoy would inevitably lead to a triumph of freedom and justice in society as a whole and that it would result in the establishment of popular rule. Then democracy was also looked on as a system that provided support for minority groups, whether political, economic, ethnic, religious, or cultural. It was then believed that the more freedoms and opportunities these minorities enjoy, the higher the level of democratic development of a society.
Yesterday in Istanbul high-ranking officials from 20 countries held emotional discussions on Iran, Afghan drug trafficking and the conflict in the Middle East. Apart from international politics, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin had been strictly involved in economic problems and was late for the summit just as was its host and his counterpart Recep Tayiip Erdogan.
Vladimir Putin showed Interros construction sites to IOC chairman.
