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
It will now be easier to assess the investment climate in Russia's regions. The Government has expanded the number of criteria making it possible to assess regional business climates.
Norilsk Nickel is seeking to purchase two nickel deposits in Voronezh. At a meeting with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Friday, Norilsk Nickel's General Director and Board Chairman Vladimir Strzhalkovsky reported that the company's financial results in 2010 were above their own forecasts, with revenue of about $15 billion. Strzhalkovsky appealed to the prime minister to hold a competition for control of two promising deposits in the Voronezh Region, pledging to invest 1.2 billion roubles in them if Norilsk Nickel were to win. Putin agreed to look into the initiative.
United Russia, with the participation of its leader, Vladimir Putin, will hold a regional conference in the Central Federal District on the threshold of the spring legislative assemblies elections, where deputies in several regions will be elected. Party leaders head to problematic (for their Party) regions this week, and dozens of State Duma deputies will be starting to work in the regions as well with a view to the State Duma campaign, United Russia told Ъ.
Vladimir Putin has signed a resolution to cut 5% of the government executive office’s personnel as per with the presidential decree on optimizing the incredibly large number of government officials. Starting on March 31st of this year, therefore, only 1,453 people will be going to work at the Russian White House. But this is only the first stage of reductions, which will continue into the future.
A snow cyclone, which left 4,400 Russian villages without electricity, is moving towards the North Western regions, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said at a meeting of the Government Presidium held on January 13, 2011. He said local authorities must be prepared “to respond properly if anything like what we have seen in Central Russia happens there.”
The Parliament of Kyrgyzstan is considering a legal motion to rename a 4,446-metre Tien Shan peak after Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. However, the relevant legislation needs to be amended in order to make it a reality.
Today’s 11.4% loan rates should not hamper economic development. The Central Bank of Russia and the Government will continue to reduce loan rates, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin promised on December 28, after visiting the new Vneshtorgbank (VTB) head office at the Moscow City business centre.
Kyrgyzstan plans to resume joint energy projects with Russia and is also inclined to join the Customs Union currently comprised of Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his newly-appointed Kyrgyz counterpart Almazbek Atambayev discussed this possibility at their first face-to-face meeting.
Over 2,000 of Moscow’s 15,000 “non-stationary shops” – better known as street kiosks – have been demolished. Employers’ associations are now appealing to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to preserve at least small pavilions in the regions.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin meets with sport fans, scoring an overwhelming victory.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin have unveiled a new monument in Victory Park on Moscow’s Poklonnaya Gora (Hill). The monument is a direct replica of the Military Glory Memorial that was demolished on orders from the Georgian government in Kutaisi last year.
The prime minister received the No 7 hockey jersey from the Latvian president.
A smaller Russian TV audience watches the prime minister's televised Q&A session.
Latvia backs scrapping visas between Russia and the European Union.
State-run science and research support funds will receive 11 billion roubles in 2011. At a meeting of the Government Commission on High Technology and Innovation in Zelenograd, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin explained what this money will be spent on.
There is very little time left until the next cycle of federal election campaigns, and Vladimir Putin is now making certain cautious predictions and conjectures regarding his return to the presidency. However, even that mild display of political intent has sent shockwaves of enthusiasm through his party.
The government decided to reopen the Izhavto automotive plant in Izhevsk, Udmurtia, which had become defunct as a result of the crisis. AvtoVAZ will purchase its main assets, and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said within four years, the company would employ almost 7,000 workers.
During his Q&A session this year, Russians told Prime Minister Vladimir Putin that his initiatives are placed on the back-burner and that he is not shown the situation in the regions as it truly is. The prime minister said he would analyse the problem.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with the activists of the Women’s Union of Russia on the day of its 20th anniversary. After exchanging greetings and congratulations, he discussed a number of important mutual concerns.
Some Russians are happily moving into new houses built to replace those destroyed by the summer's wildfires, while others will have to wait past the construction deadline.Overall, wildfires destroyed 3,200 homes across Russia. The government ordered the construction of new houses for all those who lost their homes. Although the plan was to complete construction before December 1, Izvestia correspondents discovered that two weeks past that date, some houses were still not ready.
