Yesterday Prime Minister Vladimir Putin arrived in Novgorod to inspect the archaeological excavation project there.
Vladimir Putin was in good condition during his Crimean visit.
During his visit to Chelyabinsk, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin praised the efforts of Mechel head Igor Zyuzin, a man to whom he once promised to “send a doctor” to straighten out what ailed him. This time, Putin only pressed ceremonial buttons to start up a new steel line.
The United Russia (UR) party continues consolidating the drive for supporters. Earlier, it invited top-ranking politicians, as well as sports and show business celebrities to join its ranks whereas now they are offered the opportunity to support it. UR officials told NG that talks are underway to win over a large group of VIPs. Analysts believe that the institute of supporters may be transformed into some other organization, perhaps, a new modernization party to prop up United Russia that is losing its popularity.
Prosecutor’s Office to investigate Volgograd city authorities.
Yesterday, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with veteran cosmonauts and astronauts involved in the July 1975 Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) in Korolev, near Moscow.
Sistema lobbies for import ban on devices that don’t support GLONASS.
Cinema is the most important form of art, filmmaker Nikita Mikhalkov tried to convince Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, and, moreover, electronic ticketing must be introduced and a lot of new movie theatres constructed for the Russian film industry to satisfy its viewers.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin attended the Mixed Fight European Championship accompanied by Jean-Claude Van Damme and Fedor Emelianenko.
Prime minister suggests checking legitimacy of land allocation.
Vladimir Putin shows the Volgograd mayor who’s the boss.
A cutting edge potash fertilizer plant will soon be built in the Volgograd Region, in the midst of a newly developed area including residential buildings and an ideal infrastructure. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who inspected the project site on July 15, rebuked construction officials for their lack of effort in encouraging other similar projects. The ensuing changes are bound to make developers’ lives easier.
Yesterday Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited Sochi’s Olympic construction sites, including the Grand Arena in the Imereti Valley, where he was met by members of student construction teams. There, Putin started talking to them and appraised them of a few interesting facts from his biography.
Joachim Ritu Cabi Crima or (Vassily Ivanovich Crima), the well-known United Russia party member of African origin who lives in Volgograd, is ready to meet Prime Minister Vladimir Putin after repairing a road in the Srednyaya Akhtuba district centre.
The Volga’s car plant has made money on the used car scrappage programme.
During yesterday's working meeting with Vladimir Kirillov, the head of the Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resources, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin asked how the environmental situation was being monitored at the Sochi Olympics venues, construction sites for the APEC summit, and the Baikal pulp and paper mill.
Speaking in Kislovodsk last week, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said that unemployment was the main problem in the Caucasus. Kommersant’s special correspondent Olga Allenova disagrees.
Aeroflot Airlines is set on becoming a monopoly air carrier. However, the words of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin had a chilling effect on the carrier: there will be no domination by a Russian carrier who uses foreign-made aircraft. Meanwhile there are almost no Russian planes left in Aeroflot’s fleet.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin expressed support for the idea of creating a special national programme for training specialists from CIS countries for work in Russia. Farit Mukhametshin, head of the Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States, Compatriots Living Abroad and International Cultural Cooperation, told the prime minister:
And it suddenly became clear who is failing to fulfil such orders.