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
The Valdai Discussion Club unites political scientists, journalists and historians with an interest in Russia. It has gathered for its seventh meeting this year. The club members come from more than a dozen countries: interesting people who visit interesting places and discuss problems in an interesting format. Each time the club holds its meetings in different places around Russia, many of them such unusual destinations that not even many Russians know them.
United Russia leader Vladimir Putin admitted that he was not quite satisfied with the party’s activities.
Wildfire victims in the Vladimir Region have refused to move into the “shacks” which were built for them.
In Khabarovsk Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited an unusual cardio-vascular centre: it’s new and has everything it needs.
Dilapidated housing is an urgent issue for the Kamchatka Territory.
The prime minister has reprimanded the governor of the Kamchatka Territory for his failure to spend the budget money.
The current customs duty is to be repealed for fish harvested in Russian waters.
Yesterday Prime Minister Vladimir Putin made a contribution to scientific research. He assisted biologists in their study of gray whales in Kamchatka. On his fourth try the prime minister managed to hit a gray whale with a syringe shot from a crossbow in order to conduct a biopsy – to take a sample of skin. Scientists can use the sample to determine which group the whale belongs to.
On September 20, Vladimir Putin will hold a meeting on measures to support the Russian microelectronics market.
During his visit to Kamchatka, Vladimir Putin had an early rendezvous with bears and a late meeting with fishermen.
Boris Minayev’s book about the first Russian president, Boris Yeltsin, with a foreword by Vladimir Putin is to be brought out by the Molodaya Gvardiya Publishers at the end of August. Some time before that, the magazine Ogonyok published excerpts from the book and Putin’s address to readers. Here is what the prime minister wrote about the first president of Russia.
The prime minister has visited the island of Samoilovksy near Tiksi, where a Russian-German expedition has been working for more than 12 years.
The number of victims from the mine has increased to 68. Another wounded miner died yesterday in the hospital in Mezhdurechensk.
Russia has been experiencing an unprecedented drought, the most serious one in 130 years of weather observations. The Volga Region and Central Russia have been the hardest hit. The main grain producing areas in the south and in Siberia have been mostly spared by the drought, although the harvest there is lower than in the previous year.
The ineffectiveness of budget spending doubled last year, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said at a meeting of the Government Presidium.
President Dmitry Medvedev has lifted the state of emergency declaration in Mordovia and the Moscow and Nizhni Novgorod Regions, while Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has summed up the regional administrations’ efforts in responding to the wildfires. The head of the Federal Agency for Forestry Alexei Savinov has been fired.
Russian flagship carrier Aeroflot yesterday announced plans to buy 126 Russian airliners before 2020. As of today, the company has only six Il-96 jets in its fleet and a contract for 30 Sukhoi Superjets. However, the delivery dates under that contract have been moved several times. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin insisted recently that Aeroflot buy Russian-made equipment.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin explains to developers what economy housing is all about.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin instructed the governors to take measures in view of the powerful cyclone approaching the European part of Russia.
In four years, every fourth family will be able to afford a comfortable flat in Russia.
