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
Having concluded his visit to Mongolia, the Prime Minister reviewed his year in power at the Government House.
Vladimir Putin himself admits that he has got to grips with his prime ministerial duties.
The venue of the meeting between Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and the winners of the 4th Winter Spartakiad of Russian school students was Olympic Reserve School No.2 on Malaya Filevskaya Street.
Alexander Budberg’s article “Jamming-Proof” (MK, May 6) timed for the anniversary of Dmitry Medvedev’s inauguration had every chance of providing a model of a jubilee article. Alas, it was not.
The Russian Prime Minister has completed his three-day trip to Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Tokyo and Ulan-Bator.
On the eve of the crisis Russian foreign policy changed dramatically. The phrase “Russia has got up from its knees” lost any shade of irony and became an unassailable truth. Moscow was demonstrating that it was ready to spend any amount of money to look like a superpower. The crisis had a cooling effect, but it turned out that the Russian Government was prepared to save on anything but not on foreign policy ambitions.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited Mongolia yesterday. During the visit a $7 billion contract to develop Mongolian railways was signed. However, as he confided to our special correspondent, ANDREI KOLESNIKOV, he would have preferred to return to Russia not by train or even by plane, but riding a horse or a camel across Altai and Kalmykia.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin paid a working visit to Mongolia yesterday. In Ulan-Bator he had talks with all the country’s key leaders, visited an exhibition of agricultural machinery and, bumping in the street into Russian explorer Fyodor Konyukhov, immediately dispatched him on another expedition in the company of horses and camels, promising to join him later.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin spent the whole of yesterday in Mongolia. Ulan Bator gave him a royal welcome. The 15-km road from the airport to the state palace was lined with Mongolian soldiers.
Vladimir Putin invites Japanese businessmen to invest in Russian economy.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin offered Japan to cooperate more closely in oil and gas projects. Specifically, Japanese companies will be able to participate in the construction of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant and a gas chemical facility in the Primorye Territory.
What will follow the final ban on importing right-hand drive cars?
Russian businessmen arrested in Spain on charges of operating a criminal organisation have connections with Russian government officials, politicians, heads of state-owned companies and friends of Vladimir Putin.
During Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s visit to Japan yesterday, the two countries signed an agreement on the peaceful use of nuclear energy, as well as other bilateral agreements. These agreements pave the way for the exchange of Russian energy resources for the latest Japanese technologies, and for the further development of bilateral trade. The political nature of the discussions demonstrated that Mr Putin is making the broadest possible use of the 2008 provision extending the Prime Minister’s authority in implementing Russia’s foreign policy.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin responded to Japan’s proposal to give half of the islands with neither a “yes” nor a “no”.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin hopes to develop Sochi and the Russian Far East with the help of Japanese technologies.
Yesterday, during a working visit in Tokyo, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin took part in a dozen meetings. Throughout the visit, he tried to deal exclusively with the economic issues within his competence, but on a couple of occasions he could not help but go beyond. This was the case primarily because the Japanese couldn’t pretend the whole time that there are issues in relations with Russia, which worry them more than the territorial issue. However, this did not prevent Putin from consolidating bilateral economic cooperation by signing an important agreement in the nuclear energy field, and making a contribution to humanitarian contacts by presenting his book about Judo to the Japanese public. But a bad aftertaste lingered…
The visit by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to Japan was devoted to the development of bilateral economic cooperation, but avoiding the territorial issue over the South Kuril Islands is practically impossible at any bilateral summit. Moscow is convinced that territorial issues are no obstacle to economic cooperation, whereas Tokyo warns that this is an impediment, and the problems must be resolved as soon as possible. Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso reminded Putin about Japan’s position. “If we can remove this bone of contention, we will build relations of true partnership,” Aso declared.
AFK Sistema’s owner Vladimir Yevtushenkov offered Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to transfer to the Government 25% plus one share of Svyazinvest in exchange for writing off a Sistema affiliate’s 26-billion roubles debt to Sberbank and a controlling stake in MGTS.
The Prime Minister has inspected the leading enterprises in the Far East. After watching a Russia-Canada hockey match, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin set off for the East: he will spend the whole of today in Japan, will be in Mongolia tomorrow, and he stopped over in Komsomolsk-on-Amur yesterday.
The Government has decided to admit private foreign investors to the Russian civil shipbuilding industry. A leading Singaporean shipyard is ready to invest up to $5 billion in the building of a new shipyard in the Far East, the president of the United Shipbuilding Corporation, Vladimir Pakhomov, announced to a conference on the development of the Far Eastern shipbuilding industry, which was held in Komsomolsk-on-Amur and was chaired by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
