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
A Hollywood film star and animal rights activist has urged Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to ban the import of Canadian seal fur and leather into Russia, in the wake of similar bans imposed by the United States and the European Union nations.
Vladimir Putin congratulates Alexander Zhukov on his birthday at a meeting with Russian trade union activists.
Yesterday Prime Minister Vladimir Putin taught industrialists a lesson in math and management. He explained to metals industry management, who decided to raise prices by 30% in one go, where their desire for wealth could lead to and how the government could keep prices in check.
United Russia is girding itself for the presidential election. The working scenario is a victory for Putin.
AvtoVAZ agrees to a 22% steel cost increase. The steel industry has scored its first victory in the price war with consumers. AvtoVAZ agreed to a 22% price hike by Severstal on Friday. But the price war is not over. On Friday Russian Railways (RZhD) announced that steelmakers wanted to raise prices but that RZhD disagreed. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will meet with big steel today.
The prime minister visited Izhevsk, a city of weapons manufacturers, last week. Among the designers’ achievements, he was shown a weapon which has exercised the minds of many Russian citizens for four years now, the DUM fighting robot.
Vladimir Putin met with the participants and organisers at charitable literary-musical evening “The Little Prince” on Saturday. In the opinion of our special correspondent Andrei Kolesnikov, Yury Shevchuk stole the thunder from Vladimir Putin by asking him a lot of uncomfortable questions. One had the impression, though, that the prime minister wanted to hear these questions.
Russia and Kazakhstan will form a common customs territory without Belarus.
There are not too many journalists in this country who were on familiar terms with all our presidents - from Gorbachev to Medvedev.
Most Russians are still content with the way President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin rule the country. The ruling tandem became even more popular this May, according to a survey conducted by internationally respected pollster the Levada Centre.
