On a visit to the Chelyabinsk Region, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was shown a dilapidated residential building with open cracks in the walls.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin held a meeting of the supervisory board of the Strategic Initiatives Agency (SIA).
Putin instructed VTB Bank to put up enough money to fly stranded Russian vacationers home.
The government continues winning political points with the public at the expense of the oil companies. Yesterday Prime Minister Vladimir Putin promised the agricultural industry that this year they will be able buy fuel and lubricants at 30% off instead of the 10% discount of last year. Overall, the oil companies could lose as much as $1 billion dollars as a result.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is using a new approach to lay out his election programme – a series of articles in various newspapers. These articles are like chapters from a larger single document. This is logical since, clearly, few people are capable or willing to read the entire programme from beginning to end. In addition, any attempted discussion of all the issues in his programme would inevitably degrade into a confusing crossfire of opinion. So Mr Putin has outlined his presidential programme in a tabloid-like format.
This is what Prime Minister Vladimir Putin told skiers with disabilities. Shortly before his trip to Tambov, Putin saw a televised report about a unique specialised adaptive school for children and teenagers, which has existed in the city for several years. Its initiators – Raisa and Mikhail Oleinikovs – have almost done the impossible – they have trained the blind for downhill skiing.
I don’t know whether Prime Minister Vladimir Putin had lunch before his trip to Tambov. I didn’t, but we were both stunned by the mouth-watering aromas at the food exhibit with its not-so-tasty but matter-of-fact title – Turning Agrarian Regions into Food Security Centres.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin instructs VTB to pay the debts of the bankrupt travel agency.
The organisers of the campaign team for the presidential candidate, which has been set up in Moscow, are confident of this.
Vladimir Putin is organising state-owned companies into a modernising vertical