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
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin began a three-day working tour of the Far East (in and outside Russia). He visited Komsomolsk-on-Amur on Monday, will spend today in Tokyo and tomorrow in Ulan-Bator. In Komsomolsk-on-Amur the Prime Minister focused on ship-building and the new Russian plane Sukhoi Superjet-100.
On the eve of his visit to Japan, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin granted an interview to Japanese journalists. He was asked about the Kuril Islands, import duties on used cars, and his relations with President Dmitry Medvedev.
A surprise visit by Vladimir Putin’s motorcade after May 9th’s Victory Parade caused a commotion behind the scenes at the Olimpiisky Complex. Within half an hour, an urgent press release from the Azeri delegation announcing that the Russian Prime Minister had attended one of the Aisel and Arash duet’s rehearsals had landed in front of all the computers at the press centre and on all the chairs in the press conference room.
The Russian Prime Minister has begun his two-day visit to Japan. He is to meet with Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso, members of the business community, and politicians. Ten agreements are expected to emerge from the visit, most notably concerning cooperation between banks, as well as a memorandum on the construction of the Nizhnebureiskaya Hydroelectric Power Plant and the Far Eastern wind farm on Russky Island.
After arriving at Komsomolsk-on-Amur yesterday, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin inspected at the Sukhoi Holding Company’s flagship plant, which will produce the Superjet-100 plane, and promised to provide more money to increase the authorised capital of the Russian-Italian joint venture and speed up the plane’s deployment. During a conference, at which the fate of the shipbuilding industry in the Far East was discussed, he promised more money to the most underdeveloped enterprise in the sector, the Amur Shipbuilding Plant, and stunned everyone by announcing that the plant would be deprivatised, because, as he said, its current owners could not manage it properly. Our special correspondent ANDREI KOLESNIKOV reports on the details from Komsomolsk-on-Amur.
Foreigners arriving in Russia by ferry will be allowed to stay in Russia for 72 hours without a visa.
The Russian Government does not intend to lift the restrictions on the import of foreign cars, and regards the support of producers and not dealers as a priority, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said in an interview with the Japanese media ahead of his visit to Japan. The new custom duties on the import of foreign cars to Russia came into force as of January 12, 2009 in accordance with Government resolutions. RIA Novosti
Not all the countries that took part in the energy summit signed its declaration.
On May 9, Victory Day, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited the Olimpiisky Sports Complex, where preparation for the Eurovision song contest was in full swing. Kommersant’s ANDREI KOLESNIKOV was following the Prime Minister as he checked the preparations for the contest.
Sberbank received yet another bad asset – Amur Shipbuilding Plant (ASP). The bank will transfer the company to the state owned United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) and allocate additional $400 million to restructure the facility.
I have always believed that a double-headed vertical power structure is the best of all possible options for Russia, if only because this model lends a new quality to political life.
What does the “Medvedev-Putin tandem” mean? Who of them is the boss? In general, what do you think about these two people?” We have asked students in grades nine to eleven at a Moscow school these questions.
The political tandem is a year old: Dmitry Medvedev was inaugurated as President and Vladimir Putin became the head of Government in May of last year. Ever since then, the future of the tandem has been a key issue. Some believe that it is about to collapse, some think that such a collapse could never happen…
Looking back on President Medvedev’s and Prime Minister Putin’s first year at their respective jobs, Deputy Speaker of the State Duma Oleg Morozov said on Tuesday: “This tandem works, and it is quite a unique phenomenon in politics. The former President, an extremely popular politician, has agreed to become the head of the executive branch under a new President, and thus to assume responsibility for the country not during the best of times, but during a crisis”.
Dmitry Medvedev assumed his presidential duties a year ago. Vlast has asked its readers to reflect on his first year as President.
Vladimir Putin will mark his first year since becoming Russia’s Prime Minister, for the second time. For any other politician a step down the official career ladder would have meant a corresponding loss in power. But the past year has shown that in today’s Russia Putin is more than his job. Putin the Premier wields as much influence as Putin the President. However, the number of problems facing him has increased many times.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with the medal winners of the national Spartakiad for school students yesterday. He promised to preserve the CSKA sports club and answered the question about the relative difficulty of being President of Russia versus being the Prime Minister. With the details of the visit to the Olympic Reserve School is our correspondent ANDRE KOLESNIKOV.
Japan will no longer torment the Russian Prime Minister with talk of the Southern Kuriles.
With five years to go to the Sochi Winter Olympics this is an auspicious time to assess our potential. The country’s leaders regularly inspect the progress of the Olympic infrastructure construction. However, it is still unknown who will represent Russia at the 2014 Olympics.
It was a year ago today that Dmitry Medvedev came into “possession” of three regalia of presidential power – a special copy of the Constitution, the presidential banner, and the presidential badge. These seemingly ordinary and unshakeable symbols appear to have interesting stories behind them: the closest cousin of the presidential banner – the state flag – was first hoisted over the Kremlin upside down, while the Constitution, it now emerges, is no longer an official symbol of the head of state. On the other hand, Mr Medvedev has made the Internet and latest technology a new kind of presidential symbol.
