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
Government to work out a complex of measures to support high technologies.
After a meeting with President Dmitry Medvedev, the Turkish Prime Minister headed for the Russian government Reception House for talks with Vladimir Putin. This, their tenth meeting in the last five years, was, as usual, marked by an atmosphere of mutual trust, as Mr. Putin noted.
After a meeting with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin proposed deepening cooperation in the energy field by swapping assets. The assets he was referring to are access to the Black and Caspian Sea resources and to the Turkish gas and transportation system. Ankara has also promised to issue all the permits for the building of the South Stream gas pipeline before November. Gazprom says Turkey is thus joining its other strategic partners, Germany and Italy.
Vladimir Putin gives a boost to church property restitution.
President Dmitry Medvedev and later Prime Minister Vladimir Putin yesterday received Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on his visit to Moscow.
At the first Cabinet meeting this year, Vladimir Putin outlined five key tasks the government should solve in the next 12 months.
Moscow hopes Ankara will agree to the building of the South Stream gas pipeline on its territory while promising to support Turkey’s bid to become the largest energy transit country between Europe and Asia. The two countries yesterday also agreed to swap energy assets.
As distinct from other countries Russia learned little from the past year.
What is happening in the country? Sociologists asked Russians to answer this question on the eve of the New Year. Considering the ongoing debates, they asked them to choose between the prospects of democracy and the authoritarian rule.
Russian-Belarusian negotiations reach a dead end.
VTB was the first Russian bank to announce its performance results for 2009. The bank received a net profit of 28 billion roubles under the Russian Accounting Standards (RAS), exceeding the level of 2008, the bank’s President, Andrei Kostin, reported to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. However, experts believe that the findings are not indicative and expect the bank to report losses under international accounting standards.
Yesterday, cabinet of ministers and directors of the leading research institutions spoke about innovations and high technologies once again.
California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will soon receive a parcel from Russia. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s bust for his collection is almost ready in a workroom on Vassiliyevsky Island in St Petersburg.
In 2008 and 2009, Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev signed decrees that were further supported by government resolutions on establishing a new National Research Centre, the “Kurchatov Institute.” The first Russian National Research Centre’s structure, staff, and financing have been constantly discussed. However, it has already become clear that the centre will be subordinate neither to the Ministry of Education and Science, nor the Russian Academy of Sciences, nor Rosatom, but exclusively to the government. This fact illustrates the special role that the centre will have to play in modernization and the development of an innovation economy.
The State Duma drops its conditions on Protocol No. 14.
Modernization in the epoch of binary democracy is reminiscent of a can with the 2018 expiration date. The next President, who will start working on his agenda this year, will sit in the Kremlin at least until 2018. This reminder was given by Dmitry Badovsky, Mikhail Vinogradov, and Dmitry Orlov in their report titled "Conservative Modernization." This modernization will be sooner "conserved" than conservative. The authors hope for the preservation of Vladimir Putin's majority as a mainstay of government stability and simultaneous evolutionary modernization. If their hopes are justified, we are bound to enter into another stagnation era. We will get almost the same 18 years of Putin's rule as we did under Leonid Brezhnev's. In Brezhnev's time, many also feared to do anything with Brezhnev's majority alongside sluggish attempts to modernize-e.g., the 1979 resolution or the 1982 comprehensive programme for the development of scientific and technical progress.
This year, the Russian Orthodox Church will re-establish control over the Moscow based Novodevichy Convent and its rich collection of icons and jewelry.
Moscow and Washington split on relationship between START and missile defence systems.
Ross Cameron, a former Australian MP, has published an article in The Sydney Morning Herald on the 10-year anniversary of the day Boris Yeltsin handed the reins of Russia to Vladimir Putin.
The Ministry of Industry and Trade promises to start paying car disposal bonuses in March. The bonus amounting to 50,000 roubles will be paid to car owners with cars older than ten years if they agree to buy a new car in exchange for the old one.
