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
Book shops in Saratov turned down an ideological book for kids.
Moscow has not made up its mind about what candidate to support in the Ukrainian presidential election.
The government is cutting the bank bailout programme by 60%.
In spite of the tough rhetoric President Medvedev used against state corporations in his address to the Federal Assembly, their abolition or transformation seems to be only a remote possibility. And perhaps this is not such a bad thing.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin warned the European Union yesterday about possible problems with gas transit through Ukrainian territory resulting from payment issues. He mentioned the matter in a telephone conversation with Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, the current chairman of the EU. The issue was also the first thing that Mr Putin brought up at a meeting with the United Russia Party leaders earlier. He had discussed the situation with Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko over the telephone just before the meeting. The matter is a serious cause for concern in Moscow, lest things deteriorate so much that Gazprom is forced to shut off gas supplies again in early January. By all appearances, Kiev has the money to pay, but not the political will.
Russia is set to join trade in greenhouse gas emissions. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has approved a new procedure for endorsing companies’ projects, and government officials all promise that the mechanism is about to be launched.
The crisis will in no way hinder the renewal of data on the Russian population: Rosstat will be given back the money taken from its 2010 budget and compensated for the shortfalls in its budgeting in 2009.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin pledged to provide housing for all Great Patriotic War veterans in 2010, including those who were not put on the waiting list before March 1, 2005.
This is not the first time that Alexander Chernoshchekov from St Petersburg, an animalist who retrained as a sculptor, has cast a bust of a Russian leader for the personal collection of Californian Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. He already has busts of Lenin and Stalin, and now wants a bust of Putin.
On Wednesday the Council of Ministers of the Union State convened for a meeting chaired by Russian and Belarusian Prime Ministers Vladimir Putin and Sergei Sidorsky respectively. Both parties committed to make their planned contributions to the budget of the Union State in full despite the recession.
On December 8, 1999, almost exactly 10 years ago, Russia and Belarus signed an agreement to enter into the Union State. At the meeting of the Council of Ministers of the Union State yesterday, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin called for an appropriate celebration of this date.
The Yury Levada Analytical Centre published on its site the results of the public opinion poll where our compatriots were asked to say whose interests are expressed by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and President Dmitry Medvedev.
On Sunday, November 8, the Russian television channel NTV will show The Wall, a documentary dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The one-hour documentary was directed by NTV political correspondent and well-known journalist Vladimir Kondratyev, who is the only journalist who is called by the traditional, respectful Russian patronymic form of address on live news.
Employees at KD Avia airlines are preparing to protest their unpaid wages in the run-up to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s visit to Kaliningrad, the Russian exclave on the Baltic.
Vladimir Putin visits one of Russia’s oldest orthopedic centres.
The Kaliningrad Region authorities are through with their hurried preparations for Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s visit.
Yesterday Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited a new building of the Turner Children’s Orthopedic Research Institute in the city of Pushkin, near St Petersburg.
Regional officials have begun implementing Vladimir Putin’s instruction to ban representatives of pharmaceutical companies from hospitals and out-patient clinics. Without waiting for the requirement to be legalized, they tell pharmaceutical agents not to appear while physicians receive patients or just send them directly to the management.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin told the third Russian-Finnish Forest Summit that Moscow would not raise round timber export duties in 2010. The decision not to charge prohibitive export duties is linked with plunging demand for timber. The prime minister said current duties could be retained throughout 2011, unless the global-market situation improved.
German businessmen promise Vladimir Putin to boost the Russian economy.
