The head of United Russia relinquishes the role of supra-party leader to Dmitry Medvedev.
It will be effective starting January 1, 2010
This time around, the government can punish them for burning associated gas.
Major Dymovsky sacked without waiting for inspectors from Moscow.
Vladimir Putin received investors in a somewhat informal setting at the Baltschug Hotel.
The residents of the single-industry town "rescued by Putin" are stocking up on macaroni and threatening the authorities with a revolt.
In the meantime, he has provocations from his local colleagues to fear.
Russia will welcome all new-comers.
There’s an old joke about a guy who goes to see a doctor because he’s been having problems with his eyesight. His problem is that he sees a naked woman everywhere he looks. It turns out that his problem isn’t in his eyes but in his mind (“but I see her all the time”).
Dmitry Medvedev will visit Berlin today to attend celebrations marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. On the eve of his trip he gave an interview to the German magazine Der Spiegel.
233,000 citizens have visited the offices in a little over a year.
After a slight dip in October, approval ratings for Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin have rebounded. This was shown by the latest poll conducted by the Public Opinion Fund (POF) whose results were published on Friday. The President’s approval rating stands at 59% compared with 56% last week and the Prime Minister’s rating is up from 66% to 70%. Along with these changes the number of those who mistrust Medvedev and Putin dropped to 12% and 9% respectively.
The government has provided Rostekhnologii with 1.1 billion roubles in accordance with the executive order issued by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (the document is posted on the government website www.government.ru). This money is intended to reimburse the costs incurred by Air Union Alliance, the Prime Minister’s press spokesman Dmitry Peskov explained to Vedomosti. The total amount earmarked in the budget is 3.5 billion roubles, of which 1.5 billion roubles have already been disbursed.
The television channel NTV is set to broadcast political commentator Vladimir Kondratyev’s documentary film about the fall of the Berlin Wall at 19:25 on Sunday, November 8. Vladimir Kondratyev was chief of the Soviet Radio and Television Office in Bonn in 1989.
The government plans to combat bootleg alcohol by setting the minimum retail price for a bottle of vodka at 90 roubles.
Prime Minister Putin was recently shown cutting-edge Russian 180 nanometre microchips. In just a few years, we'll push the frontier to 90 nanometers. And who cares if the Intel Corporation has already unveiled a new 32 nm microprocessor?
The prime minister is despondent over the collapse of the deal to buy the German car giant.
The government should develop a mechanism for compensating servicemen.
The government fails to find support for plans to reduce aid to the financial sector.
Vladimir Putin proposes drastic changes to the economic model of Russian cinema.