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
Yesterday, United Russia (UR) held a meeting in Moscow to pick up investment projects for the development of the Far Eastern Federal District. The best of these will be presented to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at an inter-regional conference in Khabarovsk in early December.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin took the wheel again. This time, it was a Formula One racecar rather than the Lada Kalina sport car he bought not so long ago, but the color was the same – yellow.
Yesterday in Ivanovo, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced the government's decision to double the funding of healthcare. Kommersant special correspondent Andrei Kolesnikov describes how the prime minister watched a 38- year-old patient with circulation failure undergo treatment. Doctors were trying to avoid craniotomy.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is now ahead of Pope Benedict XVI.
Renault and Nissan cars will soon feature the Lada Kalina wheelbase.
Residents of the village Verkhnyaya Vereya are already used to visits form high-ranking officials. The wildfires that raged through the forest canopy on July 29 burnt down several hundred houses in a matter of minutes.
Vladimir Putin opens the heating season in Verkhnyaya Vereya.
Russian Airborne Troops Commander Lt. Gen. Vladimir Shamanov recently survived a terrible car accident. Shamanov's BMW crashed into a MAZ truck that veered into the oncoming lane. The general's driver was killed, and the commander himself was badly injured and taken to hospital. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited Shamanov at the hospital and urged him to keep positive in spite of everything.
On Wednesday Prime Minister Vladimir Putin made a one-day trip to Kiev to hold talks with Ukrainian leaders and to conduct a meeting of the economic cooperation committee of the Russian-Ukrainian Intergovernmental Commission.
Russia should maintain its current rate of oil production at about 500 million tons a year. The conversion rate should be increased substantially from the current average of 70% for the industry as a whole.
Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin arrived in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, for talks with President Viktor Yanukovych.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin described the release of a school-adapted version of Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago as a landmark event at a meeting on Tuesday with the author’s widow, Natalia.
Yesterday at a special government meeting, ministers and regional leaders as well as the heads of Russia’s largest industrial companies working in the region - Vladimir Potanin, Oleg Deripaska, Alexander Abramov and others - convened to discuss the implementation of priority investment projects in Siberia.
Government determined to change Siberia’s grim image by 2020.
The committee on economic cooperation, to meet in Kiev tomorrow, will be co-chaired by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart, Mykola Azarov. Eleven documents are to be signed in Kiev, but as of yesterday, their list and contents were still being coordinated in Moscow with a Ukrainian delegation led by First Deputy Prime Minister Andriy Klyuev.
The economy has recovered from the problems created by last summer’s wildfires and resumed growth, medicine prices are going down, and the IMF has redistributed quotas in favour of developing countries, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was told during a meeting of the government presidium.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin began yesterday’s government meeting by congratulating Sergei Sobyanin, who was appointed mayor of Moscow.
Russia has decided to take part in another sports competition – this time for the right to host the world hockey championship in 2016. The government has supported the Ice Hockey Federation's initiative.
MTS, MegaFon and VimpelCom have decided not to wait for sanctions imposed by the Federal Antimonopoly Service and have cut prices for international roaming.
This is what the Prime Minister said at yesterday’s meeting.
