During the single day that Prime Minister Vladimir Putin spent in his native St Petersburg, he managed to launch a new supertanker intended for the Far North, to discuss the situation in the defence industry, find money to rescue the building of the Bolshoi Drama Theatre (BDT) and floor several judo masters.
The US Congress does not believe that Russia needs the modern helicopter carriers that the OPK is planning to build at its shipyards.
The Federal Antimonopoly Service responds to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's statement Thursday.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin calls for the development of a long-term programme to transform the shipbuilding industry.
Vladimir Putin began his visit to his native St Petersburg at the Admiralty Shipyards, the oldest in the country. The Prime Minister was invited to launch a new tanker.
The book launching of Without Putin... by Mikhail Kasyanov, leader of the Popular Democratic Union, was disrupted in Kiev on Thursday evening.
A new scientific institution – a nuclear physics academy – is being established Carte Blanche.
Alexei Venediktov, “This is a small world and we all live here together.”
Vladimir Putin confident that electronic trading will eliminate bribe-taking.
Vnesheconombank has helped oil companies and aircraft manufacturers and is now dealing with Sviazbank.