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
Sochi will become the first Russian city with access for disabled people, Vladimir Putin promised at a meeting with the employees of the Moscow Business Centre for Disabled last Saturday. But it will not be the only one.
The Russian Government Presidium discusses geological exploration and oil export duties.
The Russian budget will receive an additional 353 billion roubles within three years from a new taxation system for East Siberian oil fields, Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin told Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at yesterday’s Government Presidium meeting. The ministers did not take a final decision on the new tax schedule, but they decided how to proceed with natural resources’ restoration. The state will finance the early stages of exploration.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko dropped in on the Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin Friday night, arriving at his Novoye Ogaryovo residence right after a meeting with President Dmitry Medvedev.
Russian National Exhibition opened in Paris.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin may or may not have decided whether he will run for reelection in Russia’s 2012 presidential elections, but he clearly is reluctant to make his plans public at this point.
And Israel heard about its deed in passing.
Russia’s democracy had distinct liberal leanings in the 1990s. It seemed in those days that the individual liberties the public came to enjoy would inevitably lead to a triumph of freedom and justice in society as a whole and that it would result in the establishment of popular rule. Then democracy was also looked on as a system that provided support for minority groups, whether political, economic, ethnic, religious, or cultural. It was then believed that the more freedoms and opportunities these minorities enjoy, the higher the level of democratic development of a society.
Yesterday in Istanbul high-ranking officials from 20 countries held emotional discussions on Iran, Afghan drug trafficking and the conflict in the Middle East. Apart from international politics, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin had been strictly involved in economic problems and was late for the summit just as was its host and his counterpart Recep Tayiip Erdogan.
Vladimir Putin showed Interros construction sites to IOC chairman.
Two French political leaders are looking forward to Vladimir Putin's visit in Paris.
The St Petersburg acquaintances of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin figure more and more prominently as owners of various businesses, especially in the oil and gas sector. Thus, RBC daily has been informed that Nikolai Egorov, Putin’s former classmate, now professor of St Petersburg State University, is a shareholder in the New Stream group which owns the Antipino oil refinery. With such politically strong ties, the enterprise is likely to become the largest oil refinery in the Urals Federal District.
Russia has earned the gold medal in Olympic spending, with the projected costs of the 2014 Winter Games adding up to ten times as much as the amounts spent for the recent Winter Games in Turin, Salt Lake City and Vancouver.
The prime minister is getting in touch with his animal side, meeting tigers, polar bears... and now elk. Last Saturday, in the run-up to World Environment Day, Putin visited the Losiny Ostrov (Elk Island) national park in Moscow and met with a female elk named Lusha.
The presidium of the general council of the ruling United Russia party appointed Alexei Chadayev as acting deputy head of the party’s central executive committee and head of its political department. Chadayev, who worked for some time at the Presidential Executive Office, is author of the book, “Putin and His Ideology.” The party has no reason to conceal that it will strengthen its propaganda work before the elections.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited Losiny Ostrov National Park on Ecologist Day. While there, he fed elk carrots and found out about the financial difficulties that the reserve, one of the oldest in Russia, was going through.
At a round table in Moscow yesterday, experts spent a long time debating who likes United Russia (UR) more – President Dmitry Medvedev or Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
Democrats, conservatives and liberals all claim Putin and Medvedev are their own.
This unpleasant incident with the Russian Prime Minister's limo happened by chance, the Federal Protection Service reported.
Russia’s regions seem to be short of qualified personnel for gubernatorial posts. At least, one can be excused for thinking so following President Dmitri Medvedev’s decision to reappoint several long-serving regional heads for yet another term in office.
