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
During the single day that Prime Minister Vladimir Putin spent in his native St Petersburg, he managed to launch a new supertanker intended for the Far North, to discuss the situation in the defence industry, find money to rescue the building of the Bolshoi Drama Theatre (BDT) and floor several judo masters.
The US Congress does not believe that Russia needs the modern helicopter carriers that the OPK is planning to build at its shipyards.
The Federal Antimonopoly Service responds to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's statement Thursday.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin calls for the development of a long-term programme to transform the shipbuilding industry.
Vladimir Putin began his visit to his native St Petersburg at the Admiralty Shipyards, the oldest in the country. The Prime Minister was invited to launch a new tanker.
The book launching of Without Putin... by Mikhail Kasyanov, leader of the Popular Democratic Union, was disrupted in Kiev on Thursday evening.
A new scientific institution – a nuclear physics academy – is being established Carte Blanche.
Alexei Venediktov, “This is a small world and we all live here together.”
Vladimir Putin confident that electronic trading will eliminate bribe-taking.
Vnesheconombank has helped oil companies and aircraft manufacturers and is now dealing with Sviazbank.
The Russian Prime Minister has demanded that growth in prices for public utility services be economically substantiated. As of now utility rated are often raised at random.
South Ossetia is at risk of social disruptions.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is expected to pay a visit to the Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theatre in St Petersburg (BDT) today. The renovation of the run down theatre is finally underway, after Putin intervened. Izvestia stopped by the theatre to assess the scale of the project.
The adjustment of prices for light, heat and water inevitably tops the agenda every December. The government has been trying to find the perfect balance between the interests of suppliers and the interests of consumers for many years now. Power engineering specialists are still under the impression that our houses are heated for free, but citizens, on the contrary, consider these prices to be mind-bogglingly high. Yesterday, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin called on ministers to put an end to the long-running argument and charge only the amounts called for by special electric metres.
The federal ministries have received a list of goods that they must now buy only through virtual tenders.
Members of United Russia examined the work of Vladimir Putin’s public reception rooms.
Yesterday, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin gave the green light to a massive new construction project in Mordovia, where it is badly needed.
… and Gennady Kurzenkov to Federal Service for the Supervision of Transport.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was in St Petersburg last week, where he wished actress Alisa Freindlich a happy 75th birthday. Apart from hosting a traditional birthday tea party, she used the opportunity to complain that the Georgy Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theatre (GABDT), where she works, was horribly dilapidated. A source informed the newspaper that while the prime minister was aware that the theatre had problems, he was shocked to hear from Ms Freindlich that there were "cracks in the walls and stains on the ceiling from past leaks."
In 2012, Russia will celebrate a thousand years of unity between the Mordovian and Russian peoples. "A government organising committee has already started preparations for a festival to celebrate the anniversary," Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced. "Yet the colourful show is only a pleasant bonus," he added.
