Russian automakers have prepared special offers within the programme for scrapping old cars. AvtoVAZ will sell its classic Lada models and Lada Kalina at a discount of several thousand roubles.
Putin and Burdjanadze agree on the need to normalize bilateral relations.
Putin speaks out for effective investment in innovation.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced yesterday that 1.1 trillion roubles, or roughly one tenth of Russia's annual budget, will be spent on fundamental and applied science in 2010. In order to make this figure more impressive, Putin had to identify innovations in nearly every item of the budget.
On his visit to India, Vladimir Putin is to conclude three weapons contracts totaling $4 billion, including one that at last draws a line under the Admiral Gorshkov’s final price.
The Ministry of Justice has finalized amendments to the federal law “On the Russian Federation’s Military-Technical Cooperation With Foreign States,” and from now on, the federal government will protect intellectual property on all weapons being sold abroad.
Vladimir Putin inspects the new fifth-generation T-50 fighter plane.
A week after the memorable meeting at which Prime Minister Vladimir Putin gave a dressing-down to the power industry for failing to implement investment programmes, TGK-11 announced that it was cutting investments by more than three times. The company will concentrate on modernisation and abandon plans to build new facilities.
On December 3rd of last year, the nephew of World War II veteran Nina Demidenko got through to Vladimir Putin during his regular television phone-in programme and complained about the Azov bureaucrats who refused to give a flat to his aunt.
In synch with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's tour of the North Caucasus republics, the Interior Ministry of the Russian Federation under the command of Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev launched an operational-strategic exercise that became unexpectedly real. Troops in Ingushetia carried out their counterterrorist operation against a band of militants discovered shortly after the prime minister's departure.