A Hollywood film star and animal rights activist has urged Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to ban the import of Canadian seal fur and leather into Russia, in the wake of similar bans imposed by the United States and the European Union nations.
Vladimir Putin congratulates Alexander Zhukov on his birthday at a meeting with Russian trade union activists.
Yesterday Prime Minister Vladimir Putin taught industrialists a lesson in math and management. He explained to metals industry management, who decided to raise prices by 30% in one go, where their desire for wealth could lead to and how the government could keep prices in check.
United Russia is girding itself for the presidential election. The working scenario is a victory for Putin.
AvtoVAZ agrees to a 22% steel cost increase. The steel industry has scored its first victory in the price war with consumers. AvtoVAZ agreed to a 22% price hike by Severstal on Friday. But the price war is not over. On Friday Russian Railways (RZhD) announced that steelmakers wanted to raise prices but that RZhD disagreed. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will meet with big steel today.
The prime minister visited Izhevsk, a city of weapons manufacturers, last week. Among the designers’ achievements, he was shown a weapon which has exercised the minds of many Russian citizens for four years now, the DUM fighting robot.
Vladimir Putin met with the participants and organisers at charitable literary-musical evening “The Little Prince” on Saturday. In the opinion of our special correspondent Andrei Kolesnikov, Yury Shevchuk stole the thunder from Vladimir Putin by asking him a lot of uncomfortable questions. One had the impression, though, that the prime minister wanted to hear these questions.
Russia and Kazakhstan will form a common customs territory without Belarus.
There are not too many journalists in this country who were on familiar terms with all our presidents - from Gorbachev to Medvedev.
Most Russians are still content with the way President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin rule the country. The ruling tandem became even more popular this May, according to a survey conducted by internationally respected pollster the Levada Centre.
On May 27, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin flew to Finland to hold brief, cordial talks with his Finnish counterpart and an uneasy joint news conference.
Yesterday, Vneshekonombank’s (VEB) supervisory board selected investment projects for financing this year. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said the resources should be disbursed for projects that will bring broad technological innovation to Russian industry. The first 500 million euro have been earmarked for shipbuilding and timber-processing.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin congratulated the head of the Russian Orthodox Church on his name day.
The spotlight was on Russian science last week. Although the country’s scientists have yet to uncover a new particle or nano-particle, things have been busy. Addressing the events in order of importance, the Russian Academy of Sciences’ (RAS) General Meeting on Tuesday was the highlight of the week. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin graced the event.
Mir broadcasting interviews Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
How Moscow authorities will address the shortage of kindergarten openings.
The Cabinet discussed highway construction yesterday.
Director of Raspadskaya coal pit caves in to Putin.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin participated in the annual meeting of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) in Moscow yesterday.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was urging scientists to do more to introduce innovations in the economy yesterday.