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
Economic reforms will have to be resumed with or without Putin as Prime Minister.
The Pension Fund of Russia (PFR) will start collecting insurance premiums that replace the abolished Unified Social Tax as of February 15, 2010. During a meeting with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, the head of the PFR, Anton Drozdov, reported that preparation for taking over some powers of the tax agencies have been completed.
Dmitry Medvedev becomes a highly paid photographer.
In 2010, Russia is sure to get new ministers and governors, new laws, and presidential decrees that improve people’s lives or make them more difficult. But what will remain unchanged, in the opinion of our observer Dmitry Kamyshev, is the tandemocracy regime established in the spring of 2008.
The Federal Drug Control Service will make sure that recently banned narcotics such as datura are not disguised for retail as innocuous goods, chief Viktor Ivanov assured Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
Alcohol importers ask Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to postpone by six months the introduction of Customs Union regulations that would make it impossible to import wine into Russia. Otherwise, they warn, Russia may face a repeat of the 2006 wine crisis.
From now on, the chief of the Interior Ministry’s Investigative Committee will be appointed by the President, but the candidate will be proposed by the Prime Minister.
Two months ahead of the March regional elections, United Russia is way ahead of the three opposition parties.
After three months of operating at a profit, VTB moved into the red as it reported 3.8bn roubles in losses before consolidation eliminations in December, prompting the bank to boost its reserves.
Russian consumer watchdog Rospotrebnadzor (Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Protection and Welfare) has received top-level support in its efforts to combat high chlorine content in imported poultry.
