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
On November 10, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin attended an extraordinary congress of the Russian Geographical Society and became chairman of its Council of Trustees. Kommersant.ru special correspondent Andrei KOLESNIKOV reports that Society members had the impression that they were involved in drafting the Society's new budget and formulating the new national idea.
The Prime Minister gave his forecast of the outcome of the football match of the year during his trip to Tatarstan where oil and gas issues were discussed.
Russia and the EU have chosen peaceful coexistence over confrontation. Moscow has softened its tone with regard to some opponents in Europe and Brussels has shifted its position on last year’s war in the Caucasus. The two sides seem to be ready to back their words with deeds. Guide has learned that Moscow and Brussels may sign a partnership and cooperation agreement as early as 2010. If that happens, their relations will be at least as cloudless as before the Caucasus War.
This winter may be the first in recent years when Russia and the EU won’t be involved in another “gas war” in Ukraine. However, the rivalry between Moscow and Brussels in the energy sphere continues and there is no sign that the gap between their positions is being closed either in theory or in practice. Russia and the European Union are still unable to agree on the fate of the Energy Charter Treaty, with each side promoting competing plans for the Nord Stream, South Stream and Nabucco gas pipelines.
Valentina Matviyenko will add land to her city.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin yesterday threw his weight behind the idea of expanding the boundaries of the northern capital (St Petersburg) to include part of the Gulf of Finland. Instead of the seawater that today washes the shores of the Kurortny District but is outside the city limits, about 400 hectares of dry land will appear, with up-market residential houses and business offices. The Federation Council is to approve the new city boundaries before the end of November.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin yesterday visited Tatarstan. In Naberezhnye Chelny he said that the Kamaz bailout programme had been successful, and to underscore his point, he launched an assembly line that will produce diesel engines. In Nizhnekamsk he conducted a conference on the petrochemical industry. Yet in spite of the tight schedule, Putin found the time to discuss the upcoming football match between Russia and Slovenia.
The prime minister inaugurates Russian-American production of diesel engines.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin yesterday clinched the argument between Kazanorgsintez (KOS) and Gazprom, which agreed the terms of ethane supplies to the Kazan plant.
Yesterday Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico promised his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to think about the introduction of visa-free travel for Russian citizens. In turn, Putin told him about the forthcoming visit of President Dmitry Medvedev.
A third of Ukraine's residents cannot decide who to vote for in the presidential elections.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin held talks on November 16 with his Slovak counterpart Robert Fico who arrived in Moscow on a working visit. Moscow and Bratislava, which prioritise their energy dialogue, focused on this issue once again. Fico displayed a loyal attitude towards Russia, saying Ukraine was mostly responsible for previous and future crises regarding delivery of Russian gas to Europe.
KIT film observer has interviewed Russia's leading culture sociologist, member of the Presidential Council for Cinema and Art and editor-in-chief of Iskusstvo Kino (Art of Cinema) magazine Daniil Dondurei.
In late September, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin organised a presentation ceremony for global oil and gas majors in Salekhard, North-West Siberia, acquainting them with gas projects on the local Yamal Peninsula. Still this was not the most important thing. It appears that the event was organised in order to proclaim a new line in the sphere of exploitation of natural resources.
In his address to the Federal Assembly President Dmitry Medvedev declared the need to modernise and reform Russian schools. The government immediately got down to business. Yesterday Prime Minister Vladimir Putin proposed revising the system of teachers' personnel appraisal, raising salaries for junior school teachers and giving young teachers grants up to 250,000 roubles per year.
Judging by Dmitry Medvedev’s addresses to the Federal Assembly, he formally passed the halfway pointof his presidential term last Thursday. Maybe he has even covered its bigger part. Medvedev established the practice of making these addresses in November, and for this reason in 2011 he will make his address at the peak of parliamentary elections and at the beginning of the presidential campaign. In the circumstances, he may either sum up the results of his presidency if he decides to leave, or make an election speech if he dares compete for the next term. It is during his speech in the Kremlin’s Georgiyevsky Hall in two years that Medvedev will announce to the entire nation what deal he reached with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who will sit in the first row to support him.
The state corporations (GK) that operate in a competitive environment must change their legal form. All the other GKs should eventually be closed and until that happens they should be under strict control. President Dmitry Medvedev has instructed Prime Minister Vladimir Putin until March 1 to prepare proposals for the reform of state corporations.
The United Russia party will hold its regular congress in St Petersburg on November 21. The Congress will answer the question of who its leaders will be and what its platform will be when it enters the next “grand” elections.
We will know how serious the President’s intentions are on March 14.
Veterans ask Putin and Gryzlov to save Dalzavod.
