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
Politically speaking, Mikhail Gorbachev has suffered a defeat. The “democratic reforms” that he tried to carry out in the Soviet Union ended in its disintegration. But that’s not the only result of his six and a half years of leadership, a period in which he made two unprecedented achievements.
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung paid a visit to Moscow.
It would be impossible to get by without the Sayano-Shushenskaya power plant. Megawatts of energy are unaccounted for. Hydrologists are predicting disastrous floods down the river from the plant unless there is a dam to stop it. Yet, the arguments made by residents of Cheryomushki and Sayanogorsk are much simpler: these settlements were set up around the plant, and as soon as the plant goes, the villages go with it. Izvestiya reporter Andrei Krasikov visited the power plant and quickly learned that not only would the dam stand strong, but so would the people.
Living under Medvedev does not necessarily mean living after Putin.
Croatian President Stepan Mesic has visited Moscow and negotiated Zagreb’s possible involvement in the planned South Stream gas pipeline with Russian leaders. The relevant inter-governmental agreement is currently being drafted, a senior Government official told the paper.
It is not absolutely clear whether it is possible or impossible to live the way we do.
The government has doubled one-time assistance to those who want to start up a business to 100,000 roubles.
Heads of the CIS countries are looking for new forms of integration.
In his first reaction to the tragedy in Perm, President Dmitry Medvedev clearly specified the guilty and the innocent: “Ordinances were issued but they did not react to them… They have neither brains, nor conscience… And on top of all that they went into hiding… A failure to observe ordinances must involve stricter punishment. It’s no use blaming fire-fighters for everything.” Such an assessment can only be explained by a lack of practical experience.
On December 11 Prime Minister Vladimir Putin attended the 2nd Russian Innovation Convention in St Petersburg.
