At a meeting with Valery Ryazansky, leader of the Pensioners’ Union of Russia, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin suggested indexing two social pensions (a disability pension and a pension for people who for some reason do not receive labour pensions) simultaneously this April.
Yesterday Prime Minister Vladimir Putin held a meeting at the Government House on the preparation of long-term programmes that will form the basis of budgetary planning for 2012 – 2014.
Russia has the resources to keep prices for fuels reasonable. We must rule out any speculation, the prime minister told Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko.
United Russia will decide which public officials will have to disclose their expenses.
United Russia must offer society the best solutions to the problems facing the country, the party’s leader, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, said at the party’s interregional conference in Bryansk. Experts say he is increasing the party’s involvement in decision-making.
Andrei Krainy, head of the Federal Agency for Fishery, told Prime Minister Vladimir Putin that amateur fishermen will not be charged for fishing.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has addressed an interregional conference of the pro-Kremlin United Russia party in the Central Federal District and discussed plans for anti-corruption measures and fiscal transparency.
An integral company will expand fourth-generation (4G) communications networks in Russia. The biggest three mobile operators, Rostelekom and Russian Technologies have signed an agreement to purchase the Yota Group in the presence of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin chaired a meeting on the problems of the mining industry. The Federal Service for Supervision of Environment, Technology and Nuclear Management (Rostekhnadzor) plans to overhaul the work safety system at coal mines. Notably, coal mine managers will be required to personally monitor the situation underground.
Prime Minister Putin visited Tambov, where he promised farmers that they would be able to get a discount on land. He also promised that teachers who agree to work in villages would be provided with 500,000 rubles and housing. He also pledged that mothers of large families would get minivans and assistance in repaying their loans.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has decided that Russia should review its relations with Belarus within the framework of a common economic space.
Yesterday a gala concert to celebrate the 80th birthday of Russia’s first President, Boris Yeltsin, took place at the Bolshoi Theatre.
Business Association wants to update Startegy-2020.
Last week, United Russia leader, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with people at his United Russia office in Orenburg.
The New Year’s Eve apocalypse cost Russian power companies 1.77 billion roubles, IDGC Holding (Interregional Distribution Grid Companies) CEO Nikolai Shvets told Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at a meeting.
Chechnya exceeds its plan for extra-budgetary funds.
Small companies will be spared administrative barriers and excessive taxes.
Russia is ready to grant Belarus $4.1 billion worth of subsidies to purchase oil and a loan for the construction of a nuclear power plant. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin made these proposals to his Belarusian counterpart Mikhail Myasnikovich.
Today Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will discuss the terms for oil distribution to Belarusian refineries with his Belarusian counterpart Mikhail Myasnikovich. Russian oil companies want the price of oil to include a share of any sale of redistributed oil products. They also insist on the Minsk-guaranteed freedom of exports of oil products processed from Russian crude oil. Only the Belarusian government can guarantee this.
Speaking at a meeting of the leaders of veteran associations and elderly people’s unions, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said that all military personnel dismissed from service in the 1990s would receive flats (if they didn’t have one) by the end of this year or the beginning of next year. In addition, starting in 2012, the Government will adjust the difference between civil and ex-military pensions. The Government’s Veterans Council will resolve any new issues.