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Media Review

11 march 2011
Press Russian International

Komsomolskaya Pravda: “Social pensions to be indexed in April”

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.


11 march 2011

Rossiiskaya Gazeta: "Every rouble counts"

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.

10 march 2011

«Izvestia»: «Petrol within reasonable limits»

Russia has the resources to keep prices for fuels reasonable. We must rule out any speculation, the prime minister told Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko.

9 march 2011

Kommersant: “Public officials may be obliged to disclose their expenses”

United Russia will decide which public officials will have to disclose their expenses.

9 march 2011

Izvestia: “Putin urges United Russia to move forward”

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.

9 march 2011

Izvestia: “Russians will not have to purchase fishing licences”

Andrei Krainy, head of the Federal Agency for Fishery, told Prime Minister Vladimir Putin that amateur fishermen will not be charged for fishing.

5 march 2011

Komsomolskaya Pravda: “Putin calls on United Russia members to report their expenses”

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.

4 march 2011

Izvestia: “Three operators, one network”

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.

4 march 2011

Izvestia: “Coal mine managers to go underground”

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.

3 march 2011

Izvestia: "Farmers get discount on land"

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.

2 march 2011

Komsomolskaya Pravda: “Putin wants to develop new relations with Belarus”

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has decided that Russia should review its relations with Belarus within the framework of a common economic space.

2 february 2011

Kommersant: "Celebrating Boris Yeltsin at the Bolshoi"

Yesterday a gala concert to celebrate the 80th birthday of Russia’s first President, Boris Yeltsin, took place at the Bolshoi Theatre.

2 february 2011

Kommersant: "Putin’s plan to be upgraded"

Business Association wants to update Startegy-2020.

31 january 2011

Komsomolskaya Pravda: «Vladimir Putin meets with the public in Orenburg»

Last week, United Russia leader, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with people at his United Russia office in Orenburg.

31 january 2011

Izvestia: «Energy companies estimate ice rain damage»

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.

21 january 2011

RBC Daily: “Putin will ask the Caucasus about money”

Chechnya exceeds its plan for extra-budgetary funds.

21 january 2011

Komsomolskaya Pravda: “The Government to plan the country’s life after 2012”

Small companies will be spared administrative barriers and excessive taxes.

21 january 2011

Izvestia: “Fraternal billions”

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.

20 january 2011

Kommersant: Russia and Belarus will share petrodollars like brother and sister because they can’t make it half and half

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.

20 january 2011

Izvestia: “Putin on the Veterans Council”

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.

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