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
Yesterday, Alexander Shokhin, President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP), received unprecedented permission from Prime Minister Vladimir Putin for representatives of big business to officially take part in government meetings on a more or less regular basis. Previously, representatives of big business -- usually members of the RSPP Board – could merely be invited to attend, but only government officials had the right to take part in meetings of the government or its presidium.
The first car disposal facilities will open on March 8, International Women’s Day.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has invited members of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP) to take part in government meetings.
Airzena Georgian Airways operated direct charter flights from Tbilisi to Moscow.
A printed version of the January 8, 2010 programme.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has instructed the government to transfer the state-owned Novodevichy Convent, currently housing a subsidiary of the State Historical Museum, to the Russian Orthodox Church. Church representatives promise that the principle of collaboration enabling museum experts to monitor the state of the unique premises and iconostases will be implemented at the Convent. However, top Historical Museum officials remain concerned about the future of this historical monument.
The new energy conflict between Moscow and Minsk follows a certain logic. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, who, unlike his Russian counterparts, has long renounced his desire for a union state, is again displaying his talent as an ingenious political player.
A special “operation” aimed at saving Russia’s largest automaker, AvtoVAZ, was conducted over the whole of last year. Its first stage was launched in January, when the government sharply raised import duties on foreign-made cars. This measure was taken to help AvtoVAZ, whose assembly lines had been standing still since December 2008. The plant immediately reacted by raising car prices.
Moscow and Minsk have entered the new year without having come to terms on oil prices. Russia has not terminated oil supplies, but oil traders, including MSP-Oil, owned by Vladimir Bryntsalov, a well-known businessman in the 1990s, may suffer losses.
The Russian prime minister is borrowing the American experience of the 1930s whereas the president is warning that everything could come back.
The Russians will have an opportunity to talk with their prime minister in the next couple of days. Strictly speaking, this applies only to the lucky ones who will manage to get through to the anchors of the live broadcast "Conversation with Vladimir Putin" at noon on December 3. MK has found out the details of the preparations for the event.
“We need to substantially improve the quality of our rocket and space products,” Vladimir Putin said at a meeting on the modernisation of Russia’s defence industry hosted by the Energomash Research and Production Centre in Khimki, Moscow Region.
The Russian government will pay compensation of one million roubles to families of the victims of the Nevsky Express derailment, First Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov announced to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Each family will receive 300,000 roubles from the federal budget, with the remaining 700,000 roubles to be paid by regional authorities and rail transport company Russian Railways.
The Independent, London, UK
The Western world might not like the way he got his job - on a nod from Vladimir Putin, endorsed by a highly managed, if not actually rigged, election.
Yesterday, the government summed up the results of the outgoing year. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin drew one main conclusion – the crisis has been overcome owing to anti-crisis measures, but the ministers should not rest on their laurels. Putin set forth a minimum plan for the next year: support of domestic demand and business, accessibility of loans, diversification of the economy and exports, and reduction of the budget deficit.
You are bound to take this issue with you to 2010. In the morning of the last day of the outgoing year, the readers will look through the newspaper and put it aside. All of us are too busy on December 31.
Yesterday, the government summed up the results of the outgoing year. By tradition, the last meeting of the cabinet of ministers was opened by President Dmitry Medvedev rather than Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. The two leaders arrived together at the main conclusion – the crisis has been overcome owing to anti-crisis measures but the ministers should not rest on their laurels.
Vladimir Putin's tiger will ring in the New Year at the Gelendzhik safari-park.
Alexei Kudrin reported to Vladimir Putin on the compensation payments for Soviet-era deposits, which were frozen in 1991. These include Sberbank deposits and Gosstrakh (currently Rosgosstrakh) insurance policies.
What will Dmitry Medvedev and Vladimir Putin be remembered for in 2009?
