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 current crisis has revealed that the political system that has taken shape in Russia in the 2000s is impeding and even suppressing the development of other subsystems (including the economy, science, the media, education, civil society, and public life). The interests of the security agencies and state corporations (and also the government-dependent groups of the population) have paralysed the drive for modernisation launched in the 1990s.
The Russian government hopes that the country’s Far East will become a territory with an innovative materials sector and a developed transport infrastructure to grow into an economic centre in the Pacific Rim region by 2015. This, however, will require huge investments, experts warn.
Two events coincided symbolically yesterday: Russia warned Europe of possible oil supply troubles due to a dispute with Ukraine, and the government commissioned a new oil pipeline to China. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin referred to the project as “geopolitical” in nature.
The Boris Yeltsin era ended 10 years ago. The era of his successor, Vladimir Putin, has also ended, regardless of whether he returns to power in 2012.
With the Sochi Winter Olympics in sight, the Ministry of Regional Development has not yet altered its outdated rules and regulations on construction, nor has it established protocols for bringing Russian construction up to modern, European standards.
In his meeting with Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin asked him to address Soviet deposits, frozen since 1991, in a just manner. Mr Kudrin promised to provide those who fell victims to the currency change with ‘necessary aid’ next year amounting to three Russian roubles for each Soviet one. Some experts describe this step as ‘alms-giving’ and suggest that the debt be redeemed by providing the victims with flats, for example.
Yesterday, the Emergency Situations Ministry celebrated its professional holiday, Rescuer Day. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev was meeting with Sergei Shoigu. “I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate all personnel of the Emergency Situations Ministry and those who are engaged in this hard service, who do their jobs with diligence and help the massive population of our country.”
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin inspected the Olympic venues in Sochi on Friday. The impression was mixed: construction had already started on some of the venues whereas some of the other completed venues had already tumbled down.
Become one of the world’s three largest tanker companies and double its earnings – that is what Sovkomflot plans to achieve in the next five years. And next year, the company intends to go public.
He also recommended that local authorities not alter geographical names in the meantime.
