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 kremlin.ru site was active during Putin's presidency. Last spring, it was "inherited" by the new head of state, Dmitry Medvedev, while Putin moved to the www.government.ru site. By clicking "government chairman", visitors to the site can read the Prime Minister's biography and his speeches.
The Prime Minister is known to be allergic to the word "crisis." In fact, he admitted that much the other day: "We must get our terminology straight. I would like to say that many use the word ‘crisis' very loosely. It has affected the world financial system, while Russia is experiencing its consequences. The source of the problem should be traced to the US, where the collapsed system was born. The waves of that collapse are reaching us."
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin presided over a meeting on economic matters at Novo-Ogaryovo yesterday. He reiterated that the Government was not going to use the current crisis to expand its presence in the economy. Paradoxically, businessmen are asking for the opposite. A letter from the Russian Engineering Union to Mr Putin was unveiled yesterday, in which machine-builders suggest 14 measures of assistance to the sector, including the purchase of the securities of problem enterprises as well as preferential treatment in awarding state orders and a raise of import duties.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will launch his own site to provide web users with information on his activities. The web resource, developed by the Government's press service, will be launched soon as part of the official government website www.government.ru and will receive its own web address in 2008, likely to be premier.gov.ru.
The classified strategic document was approved by the Government behind closed doors. Not surprisingly, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin confined himself to conceptual remarks, though these remarks nonetheless gave an idea of what is in store for Russia in the coming decades. Under the strategy, the share of raw materials production in the economy should diminish, while the manufacture of machines should increase from 6% (today) to 14%.
Although Russia and China are both committed to expanding bilateral cooperation, they are having trouble negotiating key economic issues. This was confirmed by the October 28 Russian-Chinese inter-governmental talks in Moscow. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Wen Jiabao, Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China, spent virtually the entire day together.
The fourth meeting of the Gazprom board of directors, chaired by First Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov, faced a tough task. Leaders of oil and gas companies and senior officials of specialised departments that do not have representatives on Gazprom's board (the Energy Ministry and Federal Anti-Monopoly Service), were invited to discuss providing independent gas producers with non-discriminatory access to Russia's unified gas supply system.
Representatives from many sectors of the economy are asking for government money to help them through the financial crisis. Who are the recipients of this money? Will it happen that government support will go not to those who need it most but rather to those who are pushy and active in seeking out assistance from the government?
It is said that Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will keep up the tradition of annual televised question-and-answer sessions. AIF's commentary: Actually, Prime Minister Putin plans to reserve the right to hold presidential online sessions. Our source in the Kremlin said that, on the one hand, President Dmitry Medvedev has his own style of public speaking, a new topic of discussion.
First of all, a great amount of foreign exchange reserves and a small state debt. Due to the well-conceived ideas that were timely proposed by former Presidential Advisor Andrei Illarionov, Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin's untiring efforts, and ex-President Vladimir Putin's political support, the state debt has been repaid and foreign exchange reserves accumulated despite lobbying within the elite groups and pressure from public opinion.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin topped the monthly list after analysis of publications in federal print media and leading TV channels. The Prime Minister's information frame was largely shaped by the financial crisis. He scored more points with each material in central print media on bailout measures taken by the Government. In late September, Putin said that any bank or company could apply to Vnesheconombank for a loan to refinance prior foreign loans. His next statement that the country's long-term development programmes won't be cut or suspended brought him additional points.
Having occupied key power posts, Vladimir Putin has stayed active in Russian politics. His strategy appeared to be sound, well thought-out and guaranteed to ward off any dissatisfaction or deviations from the "Putin course". It was assumed that the only threat to the said "course" could come from people who wanted to do things differently or in a new way.
According to Kommersant's information, the most frequent complaints people file with Vladimir Putin's public reception offices are connected with housing and utilities, social problems and poor performance of judiciary and law enforcement bodies. No significant numbers of complaints about the crisis and its consequences have yet been registered.
Oliver Stone's new film interests the public on both sides of the Atlantic. Without going into its merits, MK wonders why Russians don't make movies about presidents.
Whatever bad things I know about the United States, I know from Americans-reporters, writers and cinematographers. I don't know anything from American politicians-they are as full of deceit as their Russian counterparts.
It is crazy to have a tiger at home. I can imagine the Prime Minister walking it on a leash, playing with it, and petting its whiskered cheeks-felines do like it. At any rate, cats do. If you pet them the right way, they purr.
"We have no crisis," Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has continually repeated as his mantra lately. Yet emergency measures in the budget policy for some reason are needed... Yesterday, the Duma debated a bill that would deprive Parliament of its only significant constitutional right - control over budget spending.
The daily Kommersant has learned that Delovaya Rossiya has asked Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to support the processing sector. Delovaya Rossiya's requests are clear: a two-year tax credit instalment payment for the value added tax and the income tax, one-year state guarantee for half the credits requested from the banks, and to make the Central Bank begin a staged reduction of the refinancing rate.
The word "agent", which has many positive and negative connotations, usually implies some notable plot twists.
Not Your Usual Art Show. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin featured in 69 informal portraits. Visitors are flocking to this unusual merry exhibition. All smile at the sight of Mr Putin kissing a horse on the nose in one photograph, walking through a wheat field with an angry face in another, dancing in a circle with old ladies in ethnic costumes in a third, and playing a ball game in a formal suit in a fourth.
