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
Vladimir Putin arrived at Sukhoi aircraft design centre on Monday evening in order to see for himself the design of the fifth-generation T-50 fighter, the pride of the Russian military aircraft industry. Unlike the previous versions, the T-50 combines the functions of an assault plane and a fighter and outpaces Western analogues on the "cost/efficiency criterion."
Yesterday, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin held a meeting with public health officials at which it was agreed that the quality control of medical services will be toughened – perhaps by a new government body set up for that purpose.
Yesterday, Vladimir Putin held a government meeting under the somewhat cumbersome title: "Improvement of control and supervisory functions in the fields of healthcare and social security." But in fact, the problems discussed were very real, and amount to the kind of pitfalls Russians face every day with regard to the quality of medical drugs and services.
The main tests of the fifth-generation Russian fighter known as T-50 are due to start in April. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited the Sukhoi design office yesterday to look at the progress in creating the fighter plane. He said that the number of the country's strategic enterprises will be cut by more than half.
Following yesterday’s talks in Moscow, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his Croatian counterpart Jadranka Kosor signed an agreement of cooperation during construction and operation of a gas pipeline on the territory of Croatia. As a result, Croatia will join the South Stream project and take part in the transport of large quantities of Russian gas to Europe.
The government will strip half of the companies it employs in strategic initiatives of their privileges as partners.
The United Russia Party is making a commotion over the water problem, and it wants to do something drastic. The first United Russia member to raise the issue was none other than Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, who famously published a book about reversing the course of rivers. The State Duma Speaker Boris Gryzlov then picked up the slack, proposing a clean water project on behalf of his party. Their efforts were not in vain.On instructions from the party's leader, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade drafted the new Clean Water Programme and submitted it to the government.
The French company Renault is benefiting from its friendship with the Russian authorities. Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov lavished compliments on the company yesterday during the launch of new manufacture at Avtoframos, and later Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, taking time off his schedule, told the head of Renault, Carlos Ghosn, about what had been done to rescue AvtoVAZ. He promised that Russia would sponsor Renault's team in Formula 1 and in return driver Vitaly Petrov's race car would carry the Lada logo.
In the two years preceding the presidential election, Vladimir Putin's party will hold eight mini-congresses in various regions of the country.
Vladimir Putin arrived in Magas yesterday, greeted by the presidential envoy in the North Caucasus Federal District, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Khloponin, the Minister of Regional Development Viktor Basargin and the Director of the Federal Security Service Alexander Bortnikov.
