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 arrived in Naberezhnye Chelny on Thursday. Visiting the Sollers Plant which produces Italian Fiats, the Prime Minister was shown a spic-and-span new workshop in which the plant’s products were displayed: they included the main commercial Fiat Albea model, the Fiat Panorama which is assembled here and the future Linea model for which the production line is being installed.
Vladimir Putin visits Helsinki to mark Nord Stream’s victory over ecologists.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will arrive in Helsinki today to take part in the summit on Baltic ecology. Apart from Finnish and Russian leaders, the event will bring together King Carl Gustaf of Sweden, the presidents of Lithuania and Latvia, the prime ministers of Denmark, Norway and Estonia, ministers from Poland and Germany, and numerous business representatives. The main goal of the meeting is to jointly protect the Baltic Sea from pollution and the depletion of fish stocks. Mr Putin will describe measures taken by Russia to protect the sea in connection with the construction of the Nord Stream gas pipeline.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin demanded that his ministers put budget funds to better use.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, set to visit Bashkortostan on February 8, will negotiate with 76-year-old Bashkir President Murtaza Rakhimov, raising the issue of his early resignation. Nine “old-timer” regional leaders who have already served three to four terms in office might also have to step down in March-October 2010.
Yesterday, Prime Minister and United Russia (UR) leader Vladimir Putin met with other executives from his party – Duma Speaker Boris Gryzlov, Secretary of the UR General Council Presidium Vyacheslav Volodin, and First Deputy Duma Speaker Oleg Morozov.
Vladimir Putin will visit the Republic of Bashkortostan for the first time in the past three years. Kremlin officials hope that he will manage to persuade Murtaza Rakhimov, the oldest among the governors, not to put off his retirement.
“No serious problems have arisen?” Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin asked CEO of Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin with regard to the Sapsan high-speed train. ‘No serious problems have arisen,” Mr. Yakunin replied. Their meeting was held immediately following the announcement that the term of ticket sales for Sapsan trains would be reduced from 45 to 15 days, thus making it impossible to book the tickets after March 13. Unofficial sources claimed that the chance was caused by technical malfunctions, citing photos of a wheel set with 6mm cracks (quite some wear and tear after only a month of operation!).
A modern computer class was opened in the village of Starodubka of the Omsk Region. Now a school with only 62 students has equipment that would make even Moscow schools green with envy.
At a meeting on state services in the sphere of education, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin demanded an early elimination of mechanisms for corruption in licensing educational institutions.
In the middle of January, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin held a meeting at his residence in Novo-Ogaryovo that was historical in its own right. The meeting was devoted to the future of the Russian science. The well-known Kurchatov Institute, or, to be more precise, the establishment of Russia’s first national research centre to be based upon it, topped the agenda. But in fact, no one apart from those who hold special interest in this project understood that the meeting was groundbreaking.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has recently been interested in the problems of Russian theatres. Quite recently, he took a most active part in the destiny of St Petersburg’s Georgy Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theatre. The famous Mariinsky Theatre is next on the list.
Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus Kirill celebrated the first anniversary of his ordination. The celebrations in honour of the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church lasted for two days straight and were held on Monday and Tuesday.
Yesterday, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with Artistic Director of the Mariinsky Theatre Valery Gergiev. From the very beginning, Vladimir Putin assured the master that “support for music will always be one of the government's top priorities in culture,” which is why “the government will allocate a total of 6.4 billion roubles ($218.6mln) from the federal budget for supporting musicians in 2010.” Vladimir Putin also promised to support touring musicians to prevent “people living in remote Russian regions from feeling alienated from the country's cultural life.”
The Customs Union that has united Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan since January 1, 2010, must be transformed into a unified economic space in two years. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin believes that the new union has the potential to turn into a global centre attracting capital and high technology. However, experts believe that this is just wishful thinking.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin instructed financiers to write off fines and penalties levied against in-debt fishing companies.
The Customs Union of Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan should not create favourable conditions for illicit dealings through various “grey schemes”. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin issued this directive to his subordinates yesterday at a government meeting on customs regulation.
As promised, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin got down to revising Russia’s bureaucratic system, inspecting one ministry after another. In January, he deprived the Agriculture Ministry and the Emergency Situations Ministry of their excessive administrative functions. In February, the time came for the Education and Science Ministry.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has found a way to optimize state services provided by the Ministry of Education and Science. He proposed at the government meeting yesterday that higher education institutions should be issued free and permanent licenses while a great number of firms which are now issuing them should be abolished. Mr Putin is sure that this will help combat corruption in the sphere of education and make the whole system more logical and transparent.
Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour hosted a sermon to celebrate the first anniversary of the ordination of Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia. President Dmitry Medvedev and his wife Svetlana attended the sermon. Later that day, the Patriarch met with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in the Throne Room of his suite.
