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
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin instructs the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) to improve the law on foreign investment.
President Dmitry Medvedev is changing the vector of Russian foreign policy with the START Treaty (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) in the hope that the United States and Europe will invest in Russia.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin wants to unite the Kremlin's elite cadres with the ruling party.
After the Tu-154 crash, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev held a working meeting with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Following the meeting, Putin left for Smolensk.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was appointed as the head of the government commission tasked with investigating the causes of the Tu-154 plane crash near Smolensk, which killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski, and taking care of its consequences. He spent Saturday night at the crash site. Kommersant special correspondent Andrei Kolesniov describes how Putin met with his Polish counterpart Donald Tusk, how he didn't meet Jaroslaw Kaczynski, and how the commission investigated the causes of the crash and took care of its consequences.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has asked Russia to lop $4 billion off its payments for Russian gas supplies in 2010. In exchange, Russia could take part in building two units of the Khmelnitsky nuclear power plant, which will subsequently sell electricity to Ukraine and the EU market, and also integrate Ukrainian aerospace companies into Russia’s state-run United Aircraft Building Corporation (UABC). The establishment of a gas pipeline consortium with Gazprom’s participation is no longer the main subject of talks for the Russian side.
Metallurgical companies have been offered large coal deposits with big railway problems.
Immediately after the tragedy near Smolensk, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev instructed Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to head the government commission on investigating the circumstances of the crash. In a matter of hours, Putin was at the site of the accident.
Venezuela will buy $5 billion worth of arms from Russia
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his Polish counterpart Donald Tusk took part in a commemorative ceremoney in Katyn yesterday.
