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
The live broadcast of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s question-&-answer session has determined the prospects of the next presidential campaign.
Russia’s Ministry of Natural Resources is still trying to get customs clearance for two Caucasian/Persian leopards delivered by air from Turkmenistan. The cats have been living in Russia’s first leopard breeding and rehabilitation centre for nearly six months now.
The prime minister sums up the government’s efforts in 2009.
In response to US ballistic missile shield plans, Russia will focus on the development of offensive weapons systems, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said in Vladivostok. "If we do not develop a missile defence system, the risk arises that our partners will feel entirely secure and protected against our offensive weapons systems," the Prime Minister said. "They will feel able to act with impunity, increasing the level of aggression in politics and, incidentally, in the economy."
The two leaders’ linguistic achievements of the year.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin yesterday unveiled Russia’s first automobile plant in the Far East, to be built by Sollers. He drove the first UAZ all-terrain car that rolled off the conveyor, which he had promised to sell to Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
The United States should consider Russia’s interests without sacrificing Eastern Europe’s independence.
Vladimir Putin arrived for his New Year’s Eve visit to Vladivostok yesterday and is due back in Moscow just before the New Year. He stoically withstood the frost that met him there.
One of the oil and gas industry’s most noticeable events this year was the commissioning of the Vankorskoye field in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. Rosneft oil company commenced industrial hydrocarbons production there.
In its December poll, the Levada Analytical Centre called Prime Minister Vladimir Putin “the man of the year.” Medvedev was runner-up. Some groups put Medvedev ahead of Putin, but on the whole this is a picture we’ve gotten used to.
