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
Nizhny Novgorod Region Governor Valery Shantsev will be inaugurated on Sunday. This event coincides with growing discontent with the region's head. People accuse the governor of inaction during the devastating fires in Vyksa.
How Russian officials follow Vladimir Putin’s orders.
Russia's Ministry of Regional Development has held an emergency conference call with officials from the regions hit by wildfires to announce that construction of new homes for fire victims will begin as early as Saturday August 7. The Ministry was spurred on by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin who set the deadline for completing the construction by the end of October. People who lost their summer cottages (dachas) will also receive compensation, although those who lost out-of-town luxury property are unlikely to be happy with the amount.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin made personal contact with a blogger for the first time. Mr Putin responded to the diatribe made by a dacha owner from the Tver Region, who used coarse language on the website of the radio station Echo of Moscow regarding the authorities’ carelessness toward fire safety.
People who lost their homes in the wildfires want more and more new houses from the prime minister.
New houses will be built for those who lost their homes in the wildfires; they will be equal in area to those burnt down. Special government commissions will be sent to each region to supervise the progress of relief efforts. Vladimir Putin issued such orders during his working visit to Voronezh.
The next interregional conference of United Russia, which Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will attend, is to be held in the Volga Federal District in September. It will be held shortly before regional elections, which the party thinks it must win even though they will be the most difficult elections for the party.
The prime minister called for accelerating reconstruction of housing lost to wildfires.
The government promises to fulfill social commitments.
The Kremlin has not yet made any decision on the future of Georgy Boos, the governor of the Kaliningrad Region. Two sources in the president’s administration confirmed to RBC Daily that statements about United Russia’s decision to nominate Boos for a new term are unfounded. One of them added: “Gryzlov made a premature statement.”
Yesterday Prime Minister Vladimir Putin arrived in Novgorod to inspect the archaeological excavation project there.
Vladimir Putin was in good condition during his Crimean visit.
During his visit to Chelyabinsk, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin praised the efforts of Mechel head Igor Zyuzin, a man to whom he once promised to “send a doctor” to straighten out what ailed him. This time, Putin only pressed ceremonial buttons to start up a new steel line.
The United Russia (UR) party continues consolidating the drive for supporters. Earlier, it invited top-ranking politicians, as well as sports and show business celebrities to join its ranks whereas now they are offered the opportunity to support it. UR officials told NG that talks are underway to win over a large group of VIPs. Analysts believe that the institute of supporters may be transformed into some other organization, perhaps, a new modernization party to prop up United Russia that is losing its popularity.
Prosecutor’s Office to investigate Volgograd city authorities.
Yesterday, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with veteran cosmonauts and astronauts involved in the July 1975 Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) in Korolev, near Moscow.
Sistema lobbies for import ban on devices that don’t support GLONASS.
Cinema is the most important form of art, filmmaker Nikita Mikhalkov tried to convince Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, and, moreover, electronic ticketing must be introduced and a lot of new movie theatres constructed for the Russian film industry to satisfy its viewers.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin attended the Mixed Fight European Championship accompanied by Jean-Claude Van Damme and Fedor Emelianenko.
Prime minister suggests checking legitimacy of land allocation.
Vladimir Putin shows the Volgograd mayor who’s the boss.
A cutting edge potash fertilizer plant will soon be built in the Volgograd Region, in the midst of a newly developed area including residential buildings and an ideal infrastructure. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who inspected the project site on July 15, rebuked construction officials for their lack of effort in encouraging other similar projects. The ensuing changes are bound to make developers’ lives easier.
Yesterday Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited Sochi’s Olympic construction sites, including the Grand Arena in the Imereti Valley, where he was met by members of student construction teams. There, Putin started talking to them and appraised them of a few interesting facts from his biography.
Joachim Ritu Cabi Crima or (Vassily Ivanovich Crima), the well-known United Russia party member of African origin who lives in Volgograd, is ready to meet Prime Minister Vladimir Putin after repairing a road in the Srednyaya Akhtuba district centre.
The Volga’s car plant has made money on the used car scrappage programme.
During yesterday's working meeting with Vladimir Kirillov, the head of the Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resources, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin asked how the environmental situation was being monitored at the Sochi Olympics venues, construction sites for the APEC summit, and the Baikal pulp and paper mill.
Speaking in Kislovodsk last week, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said that unemployment was the main problem in the Caucasus. Kommersant’s special correspondent Olga Allenova disagrees.
Aeroflot Airlines is set on becoming a monopoly air carrier. However, the words of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin had a chilling effect on the carrier: there will be no domination by a Russian carrier who uses foreign-made aircraft. Meanwhile there are almost no Russian planes left in Aeroflot’s fleet.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin expressed support for the idea of creating a special national programme for training specialists from CIS countries for work in Russia. Farit Mukhametshin, head of the Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States, Compatriots Living Abroad and International Cultural Cooperation, told the prime minister:
And it suddenly became clear who is failing to fulfil such orders.
Officials in Tbilisi believe that Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s words are a signal to Washington.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s visit to the new federal district was accompanied by unprecedented security measures. As United Russia leader, he charged his party with an important assignment – establishing dialogue with civil society groups across the Caucasus and launching an ideological campaign to win over local residents’ hearts and minds.
Vladimir Putin considers the development prospects for the North Caucasus
Vladimir Putin became one of the first members of the congregation in the new church in Usovo, Moscow Region.
Kommersant-Vlast presents these Russian ratings, based on how often the various individuals’ names were mentioned in the foreign media during the second quarter of 2010.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited the Tambov Region for a conference on implementing four priority national projects. But before delving into theory together with local officials, he decided to see how it worked in practice. In one day, Putin learned to drive a new tractor, tasted local milk, inspected dilapidated buildings and new affordable housing and provided a pig breeder with 50 million roubles for a new farm.
A new law on education needs to be adjusted so that the libraries become an indispensable part of schools and so that conditions for school librarians are improved. The Russian prime minister’s wife, Lyudmila Putinf, intends to achieve this goal. She attended a forum of school librarians called Mikhailovskoye 2010, hosted at Pushkinskiye Gory in the Pskov Region yesterday.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is attempting to peddle AvtoVAZ to France, but so far the French seem unresponsive.
Economic modernisation depends on modern technology, which is one of Russia’s weak points and an advantage in the West. “We are ready to buy [technology] for good money,” Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said yesterday at the international forum “Engineering Technologies 2010,” held in Zhukovsky outside Moscow.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin discussed important issues in the agricultural and fishing industries with ministers yesterday.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met his old friend, former US President Bill Clinton in Novo-Ogarevo yesterday. Although Clinton was two hours late, the prime minister excused his unpunctuality. Indeed, his guest arrived in Russia not as a tourist, but rather as a leading expert in the world economy, and was late because he had attended an international conference for investors.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin dedicated his day to sports yesterday. He first toured the new Ozero Krugloye training centre at Lobnya in the Moscow Region, and then listened to a report on how funds had been spent to prepare Russian athletes for the Vancouver Olympic Games. In conclusion, he made several suggestions for youth sports development.
Twenty five thousand young Russians were included in the national register for talent.
The cost of rebuilding the Raspadskaya coal mine in the Kemerovo Region is growing by the minute. The mine was severely damaged by several methane blasts in May. While two weeks ago the estimate was 6 billion roubles, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin put the figure at 10 billion roubles yesterday. The mine's owners will have to shoulder the bulk of the expenses, while the government has promised to help by providing loans and tax breaks.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin arrived in Novokuznetsk on Thursday to once again discuss the reasons behind the dreadful tragedy at the Raspadskaya coal mine that claimed the lives of dozens of miners and rescuers, and ways to prevent similar accidents in the future. He also met with miners and the families of the blast victims.
Kibovsky: some governors will not care about monuments.
At the meeting with head of the Federal Service on State Statistics, Alexander Surinov, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said: “The census is important both economically and socially. Based on the results, we will build our plans in defence, industry and some sectors of the economy. When is the last time we conducted a census?”
By mid 2009 Tom football club, which lost its major sponsor Tomskneft in 2006, was on the verge of bankruptcy. On July 16, 2009 Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin held a meeting on the club’s problems in Moscow, with Tomsk Region Governor Viktor Kress in attendance.
Out of the 40 bylaws that should have been adopted by June 1, 2010 and become the basis for implementing the energy efficiency law, less than half have been passed thus far, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said yesterday at a government Presidium meeting.
Over the next two years, the government will spend 460 billion roubles on healthcare.
