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
Government to work out a complex of measures to support high technologies.
After a meeting with President Dmitry Medvedev, the Turkish Prime Minister headed for the Russian government Reception House for talks with Vladimir Putin. This, their tenth meeting in the last five years, was, as usual, marked by an atmosphere of mutual trust, as Mr. Putin noted.
After a meeting with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin proposed deepening cooperation in the energy field by swapping assets. The assets he was referring to are access to the Black and Caspian Sea resources and to the Turkish gas and transportation system. Ankara has also promised to issue all the permits for the building of the South Stream gas pipeline before November. Gazprom says Turkey is thus joining its other strategic partners, Germany and Italy.
Vladimir Putin gives a boost to church property restitution.
President Dmitry Medvedev and later Prime Minister Vladimir Putin yesterday received Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on his visit to Moscow.
At the first Cabinet meeting this year, Vladimir Putin outlined five key tasks the government should solve in the next 12 months.
Moscow hopes Ankara will agree to the building of the South Stream gas pipeline on its territory while promising to support Turkey’s bid to become the largest energy transit country between Europe and Asia. The two countries yesterday also agreed to swap energy assets.
As distinct from other countries Russia learned little from the past year.
What is happening in the country? Sociologists asked Russians to answer this question on the eve of the New Year. Considering the ongoing debates, they asked them to choose between the prospects of democracy and the authoritarian rule.
Russian-Belarusian negotiations reach a dead end.
