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 and Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin have unveiled a new monument in Victory Park on Moscow’s Poklonnaya Gora (Hill). The monument is a direct replica of the Military Glory Memorial that was demolished on orders from the Georgian government in Kutaisi last year.
The prime minister received the No 7 hockey jersey from the Latvian president.
A smaller Russian TV audience watches the prime minister's televised Q&A session.
Latvia backs scrapping visas between Russia and the European Union.
State-run science and research support funds will receive 11 billion roubles in 2011. At a meeting of the Government Commission on High Technology and Innovation in Zelenograd, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin explained what this money will be spent on.
There is very little time left until the next cycle of federal election campaigns, and Vladimir Putin is now making certain cautious predictions and conjectures regarding his return to the presidency. However, even that mild display of political intent has sent shockwaves of enthusiasm through his party.
The government decided to reopen the Izhavto automotive plant in Izhevsk, Udmurtia, which had become defunct as a result of the crisis. AvtoVAZ will purchase its main assets, and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said within four years, the company would employ almost 7,000 workers.
During his Q&A session this year, Russians told Prime Minister Vladimir Putin that his initiatives are placed on the back-burner and that he is not shown the situation in the regions as it truly is. The prime minister said he would analyse the problem.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with the activists of the Women’s Union of Russia on the day of its 20th anniversary. After exchanging greetings and congratulations, he discussed a number of important mutual concerns.
Some Russians are happily moving into new houses built to replace those destroyed by the summer's wildfires, while others will have to wait past the construction deadline.Overall, wildfires destroyed 3,200 homes across Russia. The government ordered the construction of new houses for all those who lost their homes. Although the plan was to complete construction before December 1, Izvestia correspondents discovered that two weeks past that date, some houses were still not ready.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will hold his annual live question and answer session today. At noon, all of Russia’s central TV channels will start broadcasting the videoconference, which may last for hours.
Russia and Mongolia have agreed on cooperation expansion.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is confident that the automotive industry in Russia's Far East has a future.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, leader of the pro-Kremlin United Russia party, talked to journalists at a news conference in Khabarovsk.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin addressed a regional conference of the pro-Kremlin United Russia party in Khabarovsk and said that the government will continue to subsidise flights from Russia’s Far East, leaving the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Transport to deal with those companies still unscrupulously hiking their fares. He also explained why inhabitants of the region have been suffering from the scarcity of Japanese cars.
Addressing a regular meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation's Heads of Government, Vladimir Putin proposed creating three inter-state security belts against terrorism, the illegal drug trade, and illegal financial activity. This system could also encompass new SCO members. An Iranian spokesperson said that his country would apply for SCO membership at the next summit.
Today, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will address the fourth annual economic forum of CEOs and top managers of leading German companies in Berlin. In an article published in yesterday’s issue of Die Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Putin proposed a large-scale economic partnership with the European Union. The proposal includes visa-free Russian-EU traffic and the creation of a joint energy complex.
In a private conversation, the actor admitted to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin that he is half Russian
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin took part in the groundbreaking of a new terminal at Pulkovo Airport that will eventually handle 22 million passengers each year.
Russians have enthusiastically responded to their prime minister’s request to think up a name for his new puppy. Vladimir Putin received over 1,000 letters in a few days, all containing very creative proposals.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin participated in the opening ceremony of a stamping plant that is now part of the Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) in Kolpino, the Leningrad Region. Kommersant correspondent Andrei Kolesnikov attended a symphony concert staged on the plant’s main floor to mark the event.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is to meet with Wen Jiabao, Premier of the State Council of China, today. Izvestia discovered that the two heads of government plan to sign more than ten agreements following their meeting. The talks will probably focus on the price of Russian natural gas to be supplied to China after 2015.
As for Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, he is planning to hold another live Q&A session on TV in December.
Meeting in St Petersburg with heads of government from the former Soviet Union, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin suggested that the National Exhibition of Economic Achievement be revived. These national exhibition halls, most of which are currently closed or used by small resellers, can be rented by CIS countries for one rouble per year over the long-term. Ukraine, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, and Armenia have already agreed.
On Wednesday, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, where he examined a display of paintings by Pyotr Konchalovsky, pioneer of Russian avant-garde, in the company of the painter’s grandsons, film directors Nikita Mikhalkov and Andrei Konchalovsky.
On November 18, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin arrived in the Sverdlovsk Region of the Urals. There a helicopter flew him to several industrial plants spread across three local cities. Andrei Kolesnikov, special correspondent of Kommersant, who accompanied Putin to the titanium smelter VSMPO Avisma, reports that the “Titanium Valley” project the prime minister announced thus far remains a “Titanium Depression.”
Yesterday Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with Yury Chikhanchin, chief of Rosfinmonitoring (the Federal Financial Monitoring Service), who reported that following inspections conducted by his agency this year, about 2,000 criminal cases have been brought before the court.
Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri recently arrived in Russia in the hope to step up bilateral economic cooperation, while his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin agreed that present situation allows for a multitude of opportunities. He urged Mr Hariri to support Russian companies willing to take part in major tenders in Lebanon.
In the wake of wildfire disasters, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin inspects rescue equipment being used by the Ministry of Civil Defence, Emergencies, and Disaster Relief.
Thousands of young patients whose diagnoses sounded like death sentences may soon get a second chance to enjoy life. On June 1, 2011 the Federal Clinical and Research Centre for Pediatric Hematology, Oncology, and Immunology is to open in Moscow. It will be able to treat 400 patients at a time and carry out rare and complex operations like bone marrow transplantation. This cutting-edge, high-tech hospital, the largest in Europe and unparalleled in Russia in terms of equipment installed, even has an air factory of its own. Vladimir Putin inspected the construction yesterday.
Yesterday, United Russia (UR) held a meeting in Moscow to pick up investment projects for the development of the Far Eastern Federal District. The best of these will be presented to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at an inter-regional conference in Khabarovsk in early December.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin took the wheel again. This time, it was a Formula One racecar rather than the Lada Kalina sport car he bought not so long ago, but the color was the same – yellow.
Yesterday in Ivanovo, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced the government's decision to double the funding of healthcare. Kommersant special correspondent Andrei Kolesnikov describes how the prime minister watched a 38- year-old patient with circulation failure undergo treatment. Doctors were trying to avoid craniotomy.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is now ahead of Pope Benedict XVI.
Renault and Nissan cars will soon feature the Lada Kalina wheelbase.
Residents of the village Verkhnyaya Vereya are already used to visits form high-ranking officials. The wildfires that raged through the forest canopy on July 29 burnt down several hundred houses in a matter of minutes.
Vladimir Putin opens the heating season in Verkhnyaya Vereya.
Russian Airborne Troops Commander Lt. Gen. Vladimir Shamanov recently survived a terrible car accident. Shamanov's BMW crashed into a MAZ truck that veered into the oncoming lane. The general's driver was killed, and the commander himself was badly injured and taken to hospital. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited Shamanov at the hospital and urged him to keep positive in spite of everything.
On Wednesday Prime Minister Vladimir Putin made a one-day trip to Kiev to hold talks with Ukrainian leaders and to conduct a meeting of the economic cooperation committee of the Russian-Ukrainian Intergovernmental Commission.
Russia should maintain its current rate of oil production at about 500 million tons a year. The conversion rate should be increased substantially from the current average of 70% for the industry as a whole.
Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin arrived in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, for talks with President Viktor Yanukovych.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin described the release of a school-adapted version of Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago as a landmark event at a meeting on Tuesday with the author’s widow, Natalia.
Yesterday at a special government meeting, ministers and regional leaders as well as the heads of Russia’s largest industrial companies working in the region - Vladimir Potanin, Oleg Deripaska, Alexander Abramov and others - convened to discuss the implementation of priority investment projects in Siberia.
Government determined to change Siberia’s grim image by 2020.
The committee on economic cooperation, to meet in Kiev tomorrow, will be co-chaired by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart, Mykola Azarov. Eleven documents are to be signed in Kiev, but as of yesterday, their list and contents were still being coordinated in Moscow with a Ukrainian delegation led by First Deputy Prime Minister Andriy Klyuev.
The economy has recovered from the problems created by last summer’s wildfires and resumed growth, medicine prices are going down, and the IMF has redistributed quotas in favour of developing countries, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was told during a meeting of the government presidium.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin began yesterday’s government meeting by congratulating Sergei Sobyanin, who was appointed mayor of Moscow.
Russia has decided to take part in another sports competition – this time for the right to host the world hockey championship in 2016. The government has supported the Ice Hockey Federation's initiative.
MTS, MegaFon and VimpelCom have decided not to wait for sanctions imposed by the Federal Antimonopoly Service and have cut prices for international roaming.
This is what the Prime Minister said at yesterday’s meeting.
