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
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin instructs the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) to improve the law on foreign investment.
President Dmitry Medvedev is changing the vector of Russian foreign policy with the START Treaty (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) in the hope that the United States and Europe will invest in Russia.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin wants to unite the Kremlin's elite cadres with the ruling party.
After the Tu-154 crash, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev held a working meeting with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Following the meeting, Putin left for Smolensk.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was appointed as the head of the government commission tasked with investigating the causes of the Tu-154 plane crash near Smolensk, which killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski, and taking care of its consequences. He spent Saturday night at the crash site. Kommersant special correspondent Andrei Kolesniov describes how Putin met with his Polish counterpart Donald Tusk, how he didn't meet Jaroslaw Kaczynski, and how the commission investigated the causes of the crash and took care of its consequences.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has asked Russia to lop $4 billion off its payments for Russian gas supplies in 2010. In exchange, Russia could take part in building two units of the Khmelnitsky nuclear power plant, which will subsequently sell electricity to Ukraine and the EU market, and also integrate Ukrainian aerospace companies into Russia’s state-run United Aircraft Building Corporation (UABC). The establishment of a gas pipeline consortium with Gazprom’s participation is no longer the main subject of talks for the Russian side.
Metallurgical companies have been offered large coal deposits with big railway problems.
Immediately after the tragedy near Smolensk, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev instructed Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to head the government commission on investigating the circumstances of the crash. In a matter of hours, Putin was at the site of the accident.
Venezuela will buy $5 billion worth of arms from Russia
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his Polish counterpart Donald Tusk took part in a commemorative ceremoney in Katyn yesterday.
Putin discusses Star City’s problems with cosmonauts.
Russia is continuing to expand its GLONASS navigation system in the near-earth orbit, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced yesterday. The system will have 27 or 28 satellites, or “eyes”, by the end of the year. Their current number is 21.
The process of establishing a retail mail bank that would provide financial services to the most distant corners of Russia has entered a decisive stage. Yesterday, a short list of candidates for participation in this ambitious project, supervised by Vnesheconombank, was made public.
Today, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will go on a one-day visit to Venezuela. In Caracas, he will meet with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, take part in signing about a dozen documents and meet with Bolivia’s President Evo Morales.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is exceptional, if only because he has remained a major factor in Russian politics for the ten years since his election as president. From a top manager hired by the nation, he became a national leader by the middle of his second presidential term. He still retains this status, which does not require any formalisation because it hinges on unprecedented trust. During these ten years, Putin has met three public requirements – order, stabilisation and development.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin hosted his Ukrainian counterpart Mykola Azarov in Moscow for the first time yesterday. From the start, Azarov said his goal was to build Russian-Ukrainian relations from scratch for many years to come. However, Putin refused to revise the gas agreements during the meeting.
Nikolai Azarov calls on Vladimir Putin to turn over a new leaf.
Representatives of small and medium-sized Russian businesses held an innovation forum yesterday. They discussed how business could become the driver of growth by adopting high technology. However, it was left to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to dot all the i’s and cross all the t’s.
Economic Development Ministry proposes to bring back export duties on potassium.
Relations with Russia are China’s foreign policy priority, Vice-President of the People’s Republic of China, Xi Jinping, assured Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin yesterday. Putin assured Xi of full Russian support for China over the Taiwan issue (mainland China regards the Taiwan government as separatist.) Xi Jinping’s first visit to Russia was at the invitation of the prime minister.
