Putin meets with parliamentary parties before government report.
Putin names development milestones for hybrid automobile industry.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has urged ministers to avoid simple straightforward solutions and criticised the Finance Ministry’s proposal to sharply raise alcohol and tobacco excise tax.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin held a meeting on Russia’s socio-economic strategy until 2020 in his residence in Novo Ogaryovo yesterday. He discussed new tactics as opposed to adjustments for the crisis. A decision had to be reached concerning the national budget for the next few years.
The Sheremetyevo and Vnukovo airports will become an integral whole – for now only on paper – as the federal government purchases a large chunk of the Moscow city government’s shares in Vnukovo. The airports will later be connected via express trains.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has criticised the international coalition’s policy on Libya.
The Russian Figure Skating Federation yesterday sent its official bid to the International Skating Union (ISU) to hold the World Figure Skating Championships in Moscow instead of Tokyo.
The South Stream gas pipeline project will proceed according to the original plan, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin assured his Slovenian counterpart, Borut Pahor.
The tragedy in Japan has prompted Russia to return to its shelved projects to supply Japan with electricity. It may take two years to carry them out. Electricity capacity would amount to about six gigawatts.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will head the supervisory board of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Organising Committee.
The government has instructed domestic oil companies to speed up the development of their projects in the Far East. Rosneft will start to develop Sakhalin-5 in six years. It plans to build the first stage of the Primorsky petrochemical plant, at an estimated $6 billion, within six years as well.
During his visit to Sakhalin Prime Minister Vladimir Putin saw for himself that radiation background was normal and he instructed all services to stay on high alert in case the Japanese Fukushima-1 Nuclear Power Station (NPS) got out of control.
The prime minister learned a secret about American pigs from the Voronezh regional governor.
On March 15, Vladimir Putin demanded a complete report on the Russian nuclear sector from the Energy Ministry, Rosatom, and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.
Specific projects are United Russia’s main election technology, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, leader of the pro-Kremlin United Russia party, told partisan activists at his Novo-Ogaryovo residence near Moscow.
A new nuclear power plant, due to be built by Russian specialists in Belarus, will be absolutely safe, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin assured Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and Prime Minister Mikhail Myasnikovich during their negotiations in Minsk.
Special economic zones must continue granting privileges and benefits, and foreign companies must be encouraged to become residents there, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said at a meeting on incentives for regional innovation in Tomsk.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin commented on the results of the March 13 regional elections during his visit to Tomsk. He spoke as the United Russia party leader.
The government decided to offer increased liquefied gas and coal supplies to Japan at a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
Governors across Russia have failed to open planned perinatal centres and revise the healthcare modernisation programmes in their regions. During a recent meeting in Ryazan, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said he will not tolerate this kind of attitude.