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
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will hold his annual live question and answer session today. At noon, all of Russia’s central TV channels will start broadcasting the videoconference, which may last for hours.
Russia and Mongolia have agreed on cooperation expansion.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is confident that the automotive industry in Russia's Far East has a future.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, leader of the pro-Kremlin United Russia party, talked to journalists at a news conference in Khabarovsk.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin addressed a regional conference of the pro-Kremlin United Russia party in Khabarovsk and said that the government will continue to subsidise flights from Russia’s Far East, leaving the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Transport to deal with those companies still unscrupulously hiking their fares. He also explained why inhabitants of the region have been suffering from the scarcity of Japanese cars.
Addressing a regular meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation's Heads of Government, Vladimir Putin proposed creating three inter-state security belts against terrorism, the illegal drug trade, and illegal financial activity. This system could also encompass new SCO members. An Iranian spokesperson said that his country would apply for SCO membership at the next summit.
Today, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will address the fourth annual economic forum of CEOs and top managers of leading German companies in Berlin. In an article published in yesterday’s issue of Die Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Putin proposed a large-scale economic partnership with the European Union. The proposal includes visa-free Russian-EU traffic and the creation of a joint energy complex.
In a private conversation, the actor admitted to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin that he is half Russian
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin took part in the groundbreaking of a new terminal at Pulkovo Airport that will eventually handle 22 million passengers each year.
Russians have enthusiastically responded to their prime minister’s request to think up a name for his new puppy. Vladimir Putin received over 1,000 letters in a few days, all containing very creative proposals.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin participated in the opening ceremony of a stamping plant that is now part of the Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) in Kolpino, the Leningrad Region. Kommersant correspondent Andrei Kolesnikov attended a symphony concert staged on the plant’s main floor to mark the event.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is to meet with Wen Jiabao, Premier of the State Council of China, today. Izvestia discovered that the two heads of government plan to sign more than ten agreements following their meeting. The talks will probably focus on the price of Russian natural gas to be supplied to China after 2015.
As for Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, he is planning to hold another live Q&A session on TV in December.
Meeting in St Petersburg with heads of government from the former Soviet Union, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin suggested that the National Exhibition of Economic Achievement be revived. These national exhibition halls, most of which are currently closed or used by small resellers, can be rented by CIS countries for one rouble per year over the long-term. Ukraine, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, and Armenia have already agreed.
On Wednesday, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, where he examined a display of paintings by Pyotr Konchalovsky, pioneer of Russian avant-garde, in the company of the painter’s grandsons, film directors Nikita Mikhalkov and Andrei Konchalovsky.
On November 18, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin arrived in the Sverdlovsk Region of the Urals. There a helicopter flew him to several industrial plants spread across three local cities. Andrei Kolesnikov, special correspondent of Kommersant, who accompanied Putin to the titanium smelter VSMPO Avisma, reports that the “Titanium Valley” project the prime minister announced thus far remains a “Titanium Depression.”
Yesterday Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with Yury Chikhanchin, chief of Rosfinmonitoring (the Federal Financial Monitoring Service), who reported that following inspections conducted by his agency this year, about 2,000 criminal cases have been brought before the court.
Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri recently arrived in Russia in the hope to step up bilateral economic cooperation, while his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin agreed that present situation allows for a multitude of opportunities. He urged Mr Hariri to support Russian companies willing to take part in major tenders in Lebanon.
In the wake of wildfire disasters, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin inspects rescue equipment being used by the Ministry of Civil Defence, Emergencies, and Disaster Relief.
Thousands of young patients whose diagnoses sounded like death sentences may soon get a second chance to enjoy life. On June 1, 2011 the Federal Clinical and Research Centre for Pediatric Hematology, Oncology, and Immunology is to open in Moscow. It will be able to treat 400 patients at a time and carry out rare and complex operations like bone marrow transplantation. This cutting-edge, high-tech hospital, the largest in Europe and unparalleled in Russia in terms of equipment installed, even has an air factory of its own. Vladimir Putin inspected the construction yesterday.
