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
Yesterday, Alexander Shokhin, President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP), received unprecedented permission from Prime Minister Vladimir Putin for representatives of big business to officially take part in government meetings on a more or less regular basis. Previously, representatives of big business -- usually members of the RSPP Board – could merely be invited to attend, but only government officials had the right to take part in meetings of the government or its presidium.
The first car disposal facilities will open on March 8, International Women’s Day.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has invited members of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP) to take part in government meetings.
Airzena Georgian Airways operated direct charter flights from Tbilisi to Moscow.
A printed version of the January 8, 2010 programme.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has instructed the government to transfer the state-owned Novodevichy Convent, currently housing a subsidiary of the State Historical Museum, to the Russian Orthodox Church. Church representatives promise that the principle of collaboration enabling museum experts to monitor the state of the unique premises and iconostases will be implemented at the Convent. However, top Historical Museum officials remain concerned about the future of this historical monument.
The new energy conflict between Moscow and Minsk follows a certain logic. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, who, unlike his Russian counterparts, has long renounced his desire for a union state, is again displaying his talent as an ingenious political player.
A special “operation” aimed at saving Russia’s largest automaker, AvtoVAZ, was conducted over the whole of last year. Its first stage was launched in January, when the government sharply raised import duties on foreign-made cars. This measure was taken to help AvtoVAZ, whose assembly lines had been standing still since December 2008. The plant immediately reacted by raising car prices.
Moscow and Minsk have entered the new year without having come to terms on oil prices. Russia has not terminated oil supplies, but oil traders, including MSP-Oil, owned by Vladimir Bryntsalov, a well-known businessman in the 1990s, may suffer losses.
The Russian prime minister is borrowing the American experience of the 1930s whereas the president is warning that everything could come back.
