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
Today Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will report to the Duma deputies on the work done for the third time. Izvestia found out what questions deputies have prepared and recalled what they discussed during Putin’s previous two visits.
In May Russia will mark the 1000-day point on the road to the 2014 Olympics in Sochi. Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak reported to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin that Russia has traversed the bigger part of the road.
Putin promised to discuss the social issues with working people’s associations.
The Russian government is becoming more and more devoted to hockey. It’s obvious that hockey is steadily elbowing out tennis, downhill skiing, and judo from the list of most popular sports among high officials. Last weekend, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin followed suit and took to the ice.
The Russian Academy of Sciences’ new Snow Leopard project got into the media spotlight after a recent visit by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to a nature reserve in South Siberia.
Kiev wants cheap gas and long-term gas transit contracts.
Retirement pensions will be indexed starting August 1 if inflation exceeds 6% in January-June.
The government will oversee the spending of maternity capital assets more closely. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin noted that it is inadmissible to misuse maternity capital. The Healthcare and Social Development Ministry and the Pension Fund have drafted proposals to deal with confidence tricksters.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited a Mother and Child center in order to assess the work of clinics nationwide.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin held a meeting in St Petersburg on Friday on the development of Russia’s power equipment sector. He said the government should create conditions that support production of national power equipment, because “if we import everything, we would all quickly degrade here.”
Russia's car scrappage programme will be extended through the end of 2011, announced Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, towards which the government will allocate another five billion rubles.
Russian prime minister thanks visiting Jordanian leader for project support.
Russian professionals will soon launch half of all international space flights. But the country would not limit itself to the role of an international space ferryman, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said at a meeting on the development of the Russian space industry.
President Dmitry Medvedev has ordered the government to ensure that people have free access to bodies of water where they can fish. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has instructed Andrei Krainy, the head of the Federal Agency for Fisheries, to extend a moratorium on distributing water areas for commercial fishing.
The State Duma Council has decided on the format of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s report on the government’s performance in 2010.
On Wednesday, Vladimir Putin chaired a meeting to prepare for the world championships, which Russia will host in 2018.
The frequency of adverse weather conditions is increasing 6%-8% from year to year, with economic damages for Russia estimated at 40 to 60 billion roubles annually.
Russia’s weather forecasting services are testing new equipment worth billions of roubles and will be able to forecast weather accurately in a few years, scientists told Vladimir Putin on Tuesday. However, weather forecasting will only see a leap in accuracy if they have satellites. The prime minister promised to allocate the necessary funds.
Yesterday Prime Minister Vladimir Putin dotted the “i’s” and crossed the “t’s” on the introduction of a new anti-corruption measure – a declaration of expenses by State Duma deputies and government officials. Having recalled that he made this proposal at United Russia’s inter-regional conference in Bryansk, Putin declared that his idea enjoyed the support of the people: “It is clear that society welcomes this anti-corruption move.” Analysts believe he made this proposal in view of the forthcoming elections.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin finds more money for education.
