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
The prime minister met with Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov, Liberal Democrat Vladimir Zhirinovsky and Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov. They discussed the budget, the terrorist act in Grozny and US chicken imports.
The government has quickly made good on its promise given at the October 11 meeting to grant privileges to liquefied natural gas projects. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed a draft plan for LNG development at Yamal that stipulates a 12-year tax exemption for Novatek’s South Tambeiskoye LNG project. The respective agencies are to submit, before yearend, a draft resolution which also cancels export duties for all the LNG and gas condensate produced in Yamal.
Russia has long discussed visa-free travel with Europe, albeit with little results. As EU authorities keep stalling, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin decided to try another approach. He asked foreign business leaders – (members of the Foreign Investment Advisory Council, FIAC) – directly, to lobby for this policy in their countries.
The families of those killed in the flood in the Krasnodar Territory will receive 1 million roubles each, and 160,000 roubles each to other families affected by the flood, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin told the leadership of the United Russia party.
The Russian, Belarusian and Kazakh prime ministers discuss the common market.
The prime minister’s family takes part in the census.
Russia has again raised the issue of a common currency with Belarus.
And what Bernie Ecclestone and his companion, Fabiana, could have been thinking.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin attended the signing of a contract that now makes Sochi, the city of the 2014 Winter Olympics, the official host of Formula One racing from 2014 to 2020.
Speaking at the session of the General Council of Deloyaya Rossiya (DR), a public organisation representing medium-sized business, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin urged entrepreneurs to give up shady business practices. In return, the executives promised Putin to work on making their businesses transparent.
With no substitute likely to be found for natural gas any time soon, Russia should work to steadily increase its production levels over the next two decades, argues Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
The car market began to rebound in early fall. Car dealers managed to sell 186,000 vehicles, or 10% more than in August. Surprisingly, Lada Kalina sales jumped 26%. At the same time, the traditional popularity of classic cars waned. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin did a lot to popularise the Lada Kalina when he drove this model along the new Amur highway in late August. His trip received extensive media coverage.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi have discussed issues of gas cooperation.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin turns 58 today. He will spend the day in his native city of St Petersburg, although no party will interfere with his busy working schedule.
Acting mayor of Moscow Vladimir Resin has found himself, rather unexpectedly, a front-runner for the post of Moscow mayor after the president fired Yury Luzhkov citing loss of confidence. NG has learned that the Kremlin does not rule out a situation in which Resin would continue managing the city until the end of the 2011-2012 parliamentary and presidential campaigns. His main mission would be to ensure the elections in Moscow run smoothly.
Speaking at the Forest and Man forum, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin suggested setting up a federal agency that would be responsible for forest management. Rosleskhoz, or the Federal Forestry Agency (FFA), is likely to become its foundation. After the summer wildfires it was put under direct control of the government again. Now the time has come for the next stage of forest management reform.
Prince Albert II of Monaco was given a lecture on hydrocarbons and global warming twice.
The Arctic must become an area of guaranteed peace and cooperation, says Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
The prime minister addressed a conference of United Russia regional branches in the Volga Federal District.
After only one day in Izhevsk, Vladimir Putin managed to launch a new electric steel-making facility at the Izhstal plant and inspect the making of Avtovaz cars at the Izhavto plant. The automobile plant's future will be determined either in Tolyatti or in Korea.
The Valdai Discussion Club unites political scientists, journalists and historians with an interest in Russia. It has gathered for its seventh meeting this year. The club members come from more than a dozen countries: interesting people who visit interesting places and discuss problems in an interesting format. Each time the club holds its meetings in different places around Russia, many of them such unusual destinations that not even many Russians know them.
United Russia leader Vladimir Putin admitted that he was not quite satisfied with the party’s activities.
Wildfire victims in the Vladimir Region have refused to move into the “shacks” which were built for them.
In Khabarovsk Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited an unusual cardio-vascular centre: it’s new and has everything it needs.
Dilapidated housing is an urgent issue for the Kamchatka Territory.
The prime minister has reprimanded the governor of the Kamchatka Territory for his failure to spend the budget money.
The current customs duty is to be repealed for fish harvested in Russian waters.
Yesterday Prime Minister Vladimir Putin made a contribution to scientific research. He assisted biologists in their study of gray whales in Kamchatka. On his fourth try the prime minister managed to hit a gray whale with a syringe shot from a crossbow in order to conduct a biopsy – to take a sample of skin. Scientists can use the sample to determine which group the whale belongs to.
On September 20, Vladimir Putin will hold a meeting on measures to support the Russian microelectronics market.
During his visit to Kamchatka, Vladimir Putin had an early rendezvous with bears and a late meeting with fishermen.
Boris Minayev’s book about the first Russian president, Boris Yeltsin, with a foreword by Vladimir Putin is to be brought out by the Molodaya Gvardiya Publishers at the end of August. Some time before that, the magazine Ogonyok published excerpts from the book and Putin’s address to readers. Here is what the prime minister wrote about the first president of Russia.
The prime minister has visited the island of Samoilovksy near Tiksi, where a Russian-German expedition has been working for more than 12 years.
The number of victims from the mine has increased to 68. Another wounded miner died yesterday in the hospital in Mezhdurechensk.
Russia has been experiencing an unprecedented drought, the most serious one in 130 years of weather observations. The Volga Region and Central Russia have been the hardest hit. The main grain producing areas in the south and in Siberia have been mostly spared by the drought, although the harvest there is lower than in the previous year.
The ineffectiveness of budget spending doubled last year, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said at a meeting of the Government Presidium.
President Dmitry Medvedev has lifted the state of emergency declaration in Mordovia and the Moscow and Nizhni Novgorod Regions, while Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has summed up the regional administrations’ efforts in responding to the wildfires. The head of the Federal Agency for Forestry Alexei Savinov has been fired.
Russian flagship carrier Aeroflot yesterday announced plans to buy 126 Russian airliners before 2020. As of today, the company has only six Il-96 jets in its fleet and a contract for 30 Sukhoi Superjets. However, the delivery dates under that contract have been moved several times. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin insisted recently that Aeroflot buy Russian-made equipment.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin explains to developers what economy housing is all about.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin instructed the governors to take measures in view of the powerful cyclone approaching the European part of Russia.
In four years, every fourth family will be able to afford a comfortable flat in Russia.
The prime minister's rating is bolstered by a lack of alternatives.
After the initial shock of this summer’s wildfires, the Russian authorities are no longer letting emotion set the tone for decisions on relief.
Yesterday Vladimir Putin held a meeting on the cleanup effort in the aftermath of the Raspadskaya coalmine accident. Explosions on May 9 killed 67 people with 23 people still listed as missing.
The government will not restore luxurious mansions to previous dimensions after the fire: the owners should have registered them instead of evading taxes.
Prosecutor-general’s office confirms prime minister’s suspicions.
Yesterday, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin promised wildfire victims that their homes would be rebuilt on the same scale as they were before the fires and adopted additional fire prevention measures. Notably, the Moscow Region will receive an additional 300 million roubles for flooding peat bogs, and the Federal Agency for Forestry will be put under direct government control.
Although the latest opinion polls show that President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin are trusted by fewer respondents than before, analysts are confident that such fluctuations occur seasonally. Moreover, rising confidence in the president and the prime minister will be aided by their active efforts in dealing with the wildfire emergency.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has dumped 24 tonnes of water on forests being ravaged by wildfires.
Vladimir Putin signs decree on Togliatti Special Economic Zone development.
The latest Agriculture Ministry forecasts suggest that the yield will not exceed 65 million tones. Nevertheless, Russia will get passed it using last year's reserves.
