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 his birthday, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin devoted three hours to literature. His guests were all famous writers and conversation centered on just about everything at once – the affairs of the creative union, the Khodorkovsky case, etc. What didn’t they discuss?
The Russian pharmaceutical industry is not well, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said. He said that half the state budget allocated to medicine should be spent on domestically produced drugs.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has extended higher duties on foreign cars for another nine months. However, next July the government will be able to bring duties on new cars back down to pre-crisis levels.
According to the prime minister, the former Yukos’s CEO should confess his guilt in full.
Yesterday Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with writers and answered what seemed to Kommersant correspondent Andrei Kolesnikov an endless array of questions. Still, Kolesnikov believes that political opinion was expressed whether by those who avoided the meeting or by those who came and asked Putin why publicist Alexander Podrabinek was being harassed.
When Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with Belarusian Prime Minister Sergei Sidorsky yesterday, he didn’t utter a word about Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, who, on the contrary, said quite a bit about him just the other day. Kommersant’s special correspondent Andrei Kolesnikov thinks that the Russian Prime Minister simply decided to look the other way – at least until the Belarusian President comes to his senses.
Vladimir Putin puts it across to his Belarusian counterpart what the benefits are.
But Prime Minister Vladimir Putin went to visit the regions instead.Mr Putin conducted an interactive conference yesterday on preparations for the winter heating season. ANDREI KOLESNIKOV, a special correspondent for this newspaper, said that conference participants, all of whom are fully aware of the rigors of a Russian winter, didn’t expect Putin to be even more rigorous.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin recently met with Renault's Vice President Christian Esteve to discuss the problems of Russia’s ailing auto giant, AvtoVAZ.
The political process in modern Russia has been distinct in its formation of a new elite, which has gathered renowned overachievers from all disciplines. The Soviet model, which provided ladder-climbing opportunity for only the most zealous party activists and bureaucrats, was displaced by a market economy, private property, an embryonic multi-party system, new relationships and big money.
Ahead of the United Russia party Congress in November, its Chairman Vladimir Putin will hold another live question-and-answer TV session. He will also review the results of the work done by the party’s regional public reception offices since their creation last autumn. Nezavisimaya Gazeta has found that the United Russia deputies charged with receiving citizens routinely shirk their duties. The party’s leadership has threatened to impose severe sanctions on these failing officials. Governor Nikita Belykh will set a personal example of party discipline by working at one of these reception offices in October.
During his working visit to the Vladimir Region yesterday Prime Minister Vladimir Putin opened a new bridge across the Oka near the ancient city of Murom, visited a physical culture and sports complex in the regional centre and chaired a conference reviewing the sports facilities’ construction programme in Russia. His final stop was at the local public reception office of the United Russia party.
The Prime Minister dedicated a bridge across the Oka in Vladimir Region, launched the Merry Starts sports festival and held a conference on the building of sports facilities in the country.
Today marks the end of the six weeks Prime Minister Vladimir Putin gave to formulate a plan for the restoration of the Sayano-Shushenskaya Hydroelectric Power Plant. The plan was to take into account the established causes of the accident, but the causes have not been declared. The Energy Ministry acknowledges that the plan is not yet ready and that there is no final agreement on how the station will be rebuilt. However, it has already been determined that the power plant needs ten turbines from Silovye Mashiny totaling 21 billion roubles.
News that VGTRK was closing its Sport Channel to be replaced with a channel tentatively called Rossia-2 has caused a stir in the television community. Most market analysts agree that it leaves many questions unanswered. For example, it is unclear what the legal status of the new channel will be and on what grounds it would be included in the list of generally accessible national TV and radio channels. President Medvedev’s press secretary Natalya Timakova has refused to comment on the appearance of the new VGTRK channel and Vladimir Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov told Kommersant that “Putin has an understanding of the work of the media holding.”
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin flew to Vladimir yesterday. By looking at a local sports facility and spending 40 minutes receiving petitioners at the United Russia Public Reception Office he confirmed his guiding role in the life of United Russia, giving a much needed boost to the image of the party, which faces a regional election on October 11, 2009. This is the opinion of our special correspondent Andrei Kolesnikov.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited the Vladimir Region yesterday. After dedicating a bridge across the Oka River in the city of Murom, he headed for the city of Vladimir where he inspected a new fitness centre and chaired a video conference on the construction of sports facilities. The highlight of the trip was a visit to the Public Reception Office by the Chairman of United Russia Party, Vladimir Putin. Vladimir Putin has visited many sports facilities, both as president and prime minister.
Vladimir Putin calls on ministries to set an example in introducing austerity measures. As it happened, the measures started with Dmitry Medvedev.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and the other participants in the investment forum called Russia Is Calling officially declared that the Russian economy was recovering from the crisis. However, the forum decided that it was premature to curtail the costly anti-crisis programme, and said that the main priority was moving on from "manual control" of the economy to systemic decisions.
Addressing the VTB forum “Russia Calling!” yesterday, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said domestic gas prices will be liberalised soon, but the state will retain its monopoly on the export of gas. Kommersant’s special correspondent ANDREI KOLESNIKOV draws some consolation, however, from the prime minister’s remark that “this is not forever.”
