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
President Dmitry Medvedev’s interview with French magazine Paris Match appeared yesterday on the Kremlin’s site. The interview was timed to coincide with his visit to France. Medvedev spoke, in particular, about future presidential elections. NG experts have different interpretations of his words. Some of them believe that he was addressing the faction of the elite that may become his supporters in the 2012 campaign.
The Samara-based Krylia Sovetov football club has obtained a licence to remain in the Russian Premier League.
On February 20, President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin took an active part in the memorial events devoted to the 10th anniversary of the death of Anatoly Sobchak, the first mayor of St Petersburg. Both Medvedev and Putin called Sobchak a true free thinker and admitted that his seat on the political Olympus has since remained vacant.
St Petersburg held memorable events that were attended, among others, by President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
Vladimir Putin’s schedule prevented him from attending the opening ceremony for the 2010 Olympic Games, but the day before the start of the Olympics he came to Sochi and had a video link with the “Russian House” in Vancouver, the biggest Olympic residence in Russia’s history. Even erratic communications did not prevent him from inspiring the Russian team and IOC members.
The Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited two automotive enterprises in Naberezhnye Chelny yesterday: KamAZ and the Fiat assembly plant. The difference between the old and the new plants was striking.
Vladimir Putin told the Lithuanian President.
The prime minister launches new car-making project in Naberezhnye Chelny.
Vladimir Putin launches new small car production enterprise.
Fiat comes back after an unsuccessful attempt two years ago to buy a blocking share in AvtoVAZ. Seven years from now it will have a similar enterprise, with money for its construction to be put up by VEB.
