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
Officials in Tbilisi believe that Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s words are a signal to Washington.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s visit to the new federal district was accompanied by unprecedented security measures. As United Russia leader, he charged his party with an important assignment – establishing dialogue with civil society groups across the Caucasus and launching an ideological campaign to win over local residents’ hearts and minds.
Vladimir Putin considers the development prospects for the North Caucasus
Vladimir Putin became one of the first members of the congregation in the new church in Usovo, Moscow Region.
Kommersant-Vlast presents these Russian ratings, based on how often the various individuals’ names were mentioned in the foreign media during the second quarter of 2010.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited the Tambov Region for a conference on implementing four priority national projects. But before delving into theory together with local officials, he decided to see how it worked in practice. In one day, Putin learned to drive a new tractor, tasted local milk, inspected dilapidated buildings and new affordable housing and provided a pig breeder with 50 million roubles for a new farm.
A new law on education needs to be adjusted so that the libraries become an indispensable part of schools and so that conditions for school librarians are improved. The Russian prime minister’s wife, Lyudmila Putinf, intends to achieve this goal. She attended a forum of school librarians called Mikhailovskoye 2010, hosted at Pushkinskiye Gory in the Pskov Region yesterday.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is attempting to peddle AvtoVAZ to France, but so far the French seem unresponsive.
Economic modernisation depends on modern technology, which is one of Russia’s weak points and an advantage in the West. “We are ready to buy [technology] for good money,” Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said yesterday at the international forum “Engineering Technologies 2010,” held in Zhukovsky outside Moscow.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin discussed important issues in the agricultural and fishing industries with ministers yesterday.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met his old friend, former US President Bill Clinton in Novo-Ogarevo yesterday. Although Clinton was two hours late, the prime minister excused his unpunctuality. Indeed, his guest arrived in Russia not as a tourist, but rather as a leading expert in the world economy, and was late because he had attended an international conference for investors.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin dedicated his day to sports yesterday. He first toured the new Ozero Krugloye training centre at Lobnya in the Moscow Region, and then listened to a report on how funds had been spent to prepare Russian athletes for the Vancouver Olympic Games. In conclusion, he made several suggestions for youth sports development.
Twenty five thousand young Russians were included in the national register for talent.
The cost of rebuilding the Raspadskaya coal mine in the Kemerovo Region is growing by the minute. The mine was severely damaged by several methane blasts in May. While two weeks ago the estimate was 6 billion roubles, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin put the figure at 10 billion roubles yesterday. The mine's owners will have to shoulder the bulk of the expenses, while the government has promised to help by providing loans and tax breaks.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin arrived in Novokuznetsk on Thursday to once again discuss the reasons behind the dreadful tragedy at the Raspadskaya coal mine that claimed the lives of dozens of miners and rescuers, and ways to prevent similar accidents in the future. He also met with miners and the families of the blast victims.
Kibovsky: some governors will not care about monuments.
At the meeting with head of the Federal Service on State Statistics, Alexander Surinov, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said: “The census is important both economically and socially. Based on the results, we will build our plans in defence, industry and some sectors of the economy. When is the last time we conducted a census?”
By mid 2009 Tom football club, which lost its major sponsor Tomskneft in 2006, was on the verge of bankruptcy. On July 16, 2009 Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin held a meeting on the club’s problems in Moscow, with Tomsk Region Governor Viktor Kress in attendance.
Out of the 40 bylaws that should have been adopted by June 1, 2010 and become the basis for implementing the energy efficiency law, less than half have been passed thus far, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said yesterday at a government Presidium meeting.
Over the next two years, the government will spend 460 billion roubles on healthcare.
