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
Sochi will become the first Russian city with access for disabled people, Vladimir Putin promised at a meeting with the employees of the Moscow Business Centre for Disabled last Saturday. But it will not be the only one.
The Russian Government Presidium discusses geological exploration and oil export duties.
The Russian budget will receive an additional 353 billion roubles within three years from a new taxation system for East Siberian oil fields, Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin told Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at yesterday’s Government Presidium meeting. The ministers did not take a final decision on the new tax schedule, but they decided how to proceed with natural resources’ restoration. The state will finance the early stages of exploration.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko dropped in on the Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin Friday night, arriving at his Novoye Ogaryovo residence right after a meeting with President Dmitry Medvedev.
Russian National Exhibition opened in Paris.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin may or may not have decided whether he will run for reelection in Russia’s 2012 presidential elections, but he clearly is reluctant to make his plans public at this point.
And Israel heard about its deed in passing.
Russia’s democracy had distinct liberal leanings in the 1990s. It seemed in those days that the individual liberties the public came to enjoy would inevitably lead to a triumph of freedom and justice in society as a whole and that it would result in the establishment of popular rule. Then democracy was also looked on as a system that provided support for minority groups, whether political, economic, ethnic, religious, or cultural. It was then believed that the more freedoms and opportunities these minorities enjoy, the higher the level of democratic development of a society.
Yesterday in Istanbul high-ranking officials from 20 countries held emotional discussions on Iran, Afghan drug trafficking and the conflict in the Middle East. Apart from international politics, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin had been strictly involved in economic problems and was late for the summit just as was its host and his counterpart Recep Tayiip Erdogan.
Vladimir Putin showed Interros construction sites to IOC chairman.
Two French political leaders are looking forward to Vladimir Putin's visit in Paris.
The St Petersburg acquaintances of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin figure more and more prominently as owners of various businesses, especially in the oil and gas sector. Thus, RBC daily has been informed that Nikolai Egorov, Putin’s former classmate, now professor of St Petersburg State University, is a shareholder in the New Stream group which owns the Antipino oil refinery. With such politically strong ties, the enterprise is likely to become the largest oil refinery in the Urals Federal District.
Russia has earned the gold medal in Olympic spending, with the projected costs of the 2014 Winter Games adding up to ten times as much as the amounts spent for the recent Winter Games in Turin, Salt Lake City and Vancouver.
The prime minister is getting in touch with his animal side, meeting tigers, polar bears... and now elk. Last Saturday, in the run-up to World Environment Day, Putin visited the Losiny Ostrov (Elk Island) national park in Moscow and met with a female elk named Lusha.
The presidium of the general council of the ruling United Russia party appointed Alexei Chadayev as acting deputy head of the party’s central executive committee and head of its political department. Chadayev, who worked for some time at the Presidential Executive Office, is author of the book, “Putin and His Ideology.” The party has no reason to conceal that it will strengthen its propaganda work before the elections.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited Losiny Ostrov National Park on Ecologist Day. While there, he fed elk carrots and found out about the financial difficulties that the reserve, one of the oldest in Russia, was going through.
At a round table in Moscow yesterday, experts spent a long time debating who likes United Russia (UR) more – President Dmitry Medvedev or Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
Democrats, conservatives and liberals all claim Putin and Medvedev are their own.
This unpleasant incident with the Russian Prime Minister's limo happened by chance, the Federal Protection Service reported.
Russia’s regions seem to be short of qualified personnel for gubernatorial posts. At least, one can be excused for thinking so following President Dmitri Medvedev’s decision to reappoint several long-serving regional heads for yet another term in office.
A Hollywood film star and animal rights activist has urged Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to ban the import of Canadian seal fur and leather into Russia, in the wake of similar bans imposed by the United States and the European Union nations.
Vladimir Putin congratulates Alexander Zhukov on his birthday at a meeting with Russian trade union activists.
Yesterday Prime Minister Vladimir Putin taught industrialists a lesson in math and management. He explained to metals industry management, who decided to raise prices by 30% in one go, where their desire for wealth could lead to and how the government could keep prices in check.
United Russia is girding itself for the presidential election. The working scenario is a victory for Putin.
AvtoVAZ agrees to a 22% steel cost increase. The steel industry has scored its first victory in the price war with consumers. AvtoVAZ agreed to a 22% price hike by Severstal on Friday. But the price war is not over. On Friday Russian Railways (RZhD) announced that steelmakers wanted to raise prices but that RZhD disagreed. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will meet with big steel today.
The prime minister visited Izhevsk, a city of weapons manufacturers, last week. Among the designers’ achievements, he was shown a weapon which has exercised the minds of many Russian citizens for four years now, the DUM fighting robot.
Vladimir Putin met with the participants and organisers at charitable literary-musical evening “The Little Prince” on Saturday. In the opinion of our special correspondent Andrei Kolesnikov, Yury Shevchuk stole the thunder from Vladimir Putin by asking him a lot of uncomfortable questions. One had the impression, though, that the prime minister wanted to hear these questions.
Russia and Kazakhstan will form a common customs territory without Belarus.
There are not too many journalists in this country who were on familiar terms with all our presidents - from Gorbachev to Medvedev.
Most Russians are still content with the way President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin rule the country. The ruling tandem became even more popular this May, according to a survey conducted by internationally respected pollster the Levada Centre.
On May 27, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin flew to Finland to hold brief, cordial talks with his Finnish counterpart and an uneasy joint news conference.
Yesterday, Vneshekonombank’s (VEB) supervisory board selected investment projects for financing this year. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said the resources should be disbursed for projects that will bring broad technological innovation to Russian industry. The first 500 million euro have been earmarked for shipbuilding and timber-processing.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin congratulated the head of the Russian Orthodox Church on his name day.
The spotlight was on Russian science last week. Although the country’s scientists have yet to uncover a new particle or nano-particle, things have been busy. Addressing the events in order of importance, the Russian Academy of Sciences’ (RAS) General Meeting on Tuesday was the highlight of the week. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin graced the event.
Mir broadcasting interviews Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
How Moscow authorities will address the shortage of kindergarten openings.
The Cabinet discussed highway construction yesterday.
Director of Raspadskaya coal pit caves in to Putin.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin participated in the annual meeting of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) in Moscow yesterday.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was urging scientists to do more to introduce innovations in the economy yesterday.
Russia eager to host world football championships.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin asked Samara Region Governor Vladimir Artyakov yesterday how effective the car trade-in programme was for AvtoVaz.
Ukraine’s top energy official has met with counterparts in Moscow to discuss the possibility of a merger between the Russian gas giant Gazprom and the Ukraine’s Naftogaz. Fuel and Energy Minister Yuriy Boiko held the talks in the run-up to Russian President Dmitri Medvedev’s visit to Kiev.
Russia wants to make Brazil its key partner among BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) countries.
Russian Highways needs time not money.
Public Chamber Council asks Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to address the problems of foreign faculty working in Russia.
A Ukrainian delegation is coming to Moscow to discuss Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s proposal.
The improprieties of renaming Grozny’s main street.
Russia has finalised agreements on a gas discount for Ukraine. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed a resolution on April 30 cancelling the export duty on gas supplied to Ukraine. The 30% discount granted to Ukraine on April 1 has since saved the country $250 million. However, the Ukrainian government is insisting on more changes to the contract.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said Vladimir Putin’s proposal to merge Gazprom and Naftogaz was “worth considering”.
