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
United Russia branch in Siberia to present a dazzling array of large-scale projects to Vladimir Putin.
Vladimir Putin will meet with Hu Jintao’s successor.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin told his deputy Dmitry Kozak to fire the bureaucrats who have failed to cut the cost of construction in Russia. Punishment should be administered at once, he said, which means someone would have been dealt a blow yesterday. As this issue went to press, the names of those punished were not yet known. The representatives of the agencies Izvestia has approached had the same answer: there was nothing to punish them for.
Prime Minister Putin inaugurated a new sea shipping route in St Petersburg on Monday. The new transoceanic line will bring bananas from far-away Ecuador to Russia. Deputy Transport Minister Viktor Olersky told Gazeta that bananas on the Russian market will be cheaper and fresher thanks to the new route.
Brandishing a fake bomb, the criminal demanded a meeting with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
Yesterday Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin looked on as the second reactor at the Rostov (Volgodonsk) Nuclear Power Plant was launched into full operation. Praising the work of the builders and engineers, the prime minister reminded them that under near-term plans, as many new reactors are to be built as had been in the USSR over the years of its existence.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin officially launched the second unit of the Volgodonskaya nuclear power plant in Volgodonsk, Rostov Region, on Thursday. True, he didn’t get to press the start button.
Addressing a meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Russian Geographical Society, Vladimir Putin spoke about the future of Lake Baikal and the town of Baikalsk.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin told his cabinet yesterday that Russia is attempting to host the world football championship in 2018. Competition will naturally be tough. But the CSKA victory over Spanish Sevilla is just more proof that nothing is impossible.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has authorized amendments submitted to the State Duma that will allow citizens to declare bankruptcy and seek to restructure their debt in a court of law. After two years in limbo, the draft has been included in the list of anti-crisis measures.
Vladimir Putin takes the side of Baikal Pulp and Paper Plant.
The first meeting this year of the Council of Ministers of the Union State of Russia and Belarus was held in Brest yesterday. As usual, the prime ministers of the two nations were at pains to demonstrate how close they had become. However, Russia did not budge from its contentious terms on oil duties. It agreed to rescind the duties only on 6.3 million tons for internal consumption, a clause openly opposed by Alexander Lukashenko, while Minsk again kept silent on the recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia – an issue of high priority for Russia.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Belarusian counterpart Sergey Sidorsky conducted a meeting of the Council of Ministers of the Union State of Russia and Belarus in Brest yesterday. The Russian prime minister criticized Minsk for being slow to recognize Abkhazia and South Ossetia, then called for the introduction of a common currency and promised that customs duties between the two countries will be abolished starting in 2012.
As Vladimir Putin set foot on the soil of Brest, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko was negotiating the supply of Venezuelan oil with Hugo Chavez in Caracas. The Russian prime minister’s press service denied rumours that Lukashenko had simply “fled” in order not to discuss the sensitive issue of Russian energy supplies. Putin arrived in Brest rather than Minsk for scheduled meetings with the Belarusian number two, Sergey Sidorsky.
Vladimir Putin inspects the last outpost between the Atlantic and Kamchatka.
Vladimir Putin continues revising the system of state supervision, this time in the construction industry.
Vladimir Putin, who had already established his credentials as a defender of tigers and leopards, yesterday turned his attention to polar bears. "They must survive not only in the zoo, but also in the wild," the prime minister said, setting a new goal for the protection of the species. The Board of Trustees of the Russian Geographical Society earmarked 4 million roubles for saving the population of polar bears. Another 46 million was divided up among other fields of research, including the programme to preserve the Lake Baikal ecosystem.
The RGO meeting yesterday was opened by its President Sergei Shoigu, who gave the floor to the head of the RGO Board of Trustees Vladimir Putin. The prime minister began his speech by congratulating Komsomolskaya Pravda columnist Vasily Peskov.
An enlarged meeting of the board of the Russian Geographical Society (RGO) was held in Moscow yesterday. Our special correspondent ANDREI KOLESNIKOV saw it as the birth of a heady new national idea whose realization Vladimir Putin will oversee personally.
In India, Putin may not have had any new insight on Mohandas Gandhi, but he brought back a fat stack of contracts for Russia.
During his one-day stay in India today, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin plans to meet the country’s leaders, hold business talks on over a dozen contracts, open two exhibitions, and hold an Internet conference with the greater Indian public.
President Dmitry Medvedev received King Abdullah II of Jordan, yesterday, who is arguably Russia’s greatest ally in the Middle East. True, warm relations with the Arab monarch are taking time to be translated into major economic projects, but the kingdom plays an important role in the Middle East peace process, and it is important for Russia to hear out King Abdullah before the ministerial meeting of the Quartet.
The head of Rosaviatsia, Alexander Neradko, yesterday reported to Prime Minister Putin on air traffic. He said the country’s air space would be divided into three classes. In the first two classes, above 8100 m, reserved for large planes, permits will still be required for flights. In the third class, reserved for helicopters and small aircraft, one would need only to provide notification, as before.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin arrived in India yesterday, where contracts worth $10 billion, including the supply of arms and nuclear plant construction, are expected to be signed.
Inexplicably, only the ruling party decided to use the president’s name in its March election campaign.
On Wednesday, the government discussed ways to augment the budget without capsizing business.
This evening, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is en route to India. The official portion of his visit will start on Friday, whereupon he will meet with the Indian president and prime minister, hold a web conference with local residents, and sign a dozen contracts and agreements amounting to almost $10 billion.
In 2011, the government will raise taxes; however, it is ready to offer tangible benefits to innovative companies and to some medical, educational, and scientific institutions.
The government will not raise wage taxes from the present 26% to 34% in 2011 as projected, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said at a meeting on Wednesday, outlining major tax policies for the next year and the scheduled period from 2012 through 2013.
The meeting will serve as the initial step in planning next year's budget, Putin said, noting that the economic situation has stabilized and now there is every opportunity to arrange the 2011 budget according to traditional methods.
The Russian prime minister, a renowned lover of extreme sports, twice ascended the mountains of Tyva together with Minister of Civil Defence, Emergencies, and Disaster Relief, Sergei Shoigu, a native to the region. Putin slept in a tent, sat by the fire, and ate porridge and ukha from the cauldron.
Yesterday evening, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin chaired his first cabinet meeting on federal targeted programmes (FTPs) in the 2011 budget.
United Russia (UR) has set up a working group to prepare an interregional party conference in Krasnoyarsk on March 30. The party members expect their leader Vladimir Putin to speak to them. This time, the format implies a question-and-answer session rather than a unilateral communication with regional activists in the style of a party congress.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin invites Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych to join the Customs Union.
If the Ukrainian President intended to stun Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at a recent get-together, he certainly succeeded.
Vladimir Putin gives instructions to sports officials for Sochi-2014.
The Russian aircraft engine manufacturer NPO Saturn Research and Production Association is requesting additional federal funding for its Sukhoi Superjet (SSJ) 100 medium-haul airliner project, the most sensational in Russia's civilian aircraft industry,The 8.4 billion roubles to be allocated over three years will be used toward the development of the PowerJet SaM146 turbofan engine, currently underway in a joint venture with France's Snecma.
In the next two years, United Russia (UR) leader Vladimir Putin is more likely to behave as a party member in order to enhance UR prestige on the road to the presidential elections.
Yesterday Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with Nino Burdjanadze, a leader of the Georgian opposition. She can now easily claim to be the only Georgian negotiator feted by Moscow, but special correspondent Andrei Kolesnikov thinks that her position is extremely shaky.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met yesterday with Nino Burjanadze, leader of the Georgian opposition party, Democratic Movement – United Georgia.
Russian automakers have prepared special offers within the programme for scrapping old cars. AvtoVAZ will sell its classic Lada models and Lada Kalina at a discount of several thousand roubles.
Putin and Burdjanadze agree on the need to normalize bilateral relations.
Putin speaks out for effective investment in innovation.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced yesterday that 1.1 trillion roubles, or roughly one tenth of Russia's annual budget, will be spent on fundamental and applied science in 2010. In order to make this figure more impressive, Putin had to identify innovations in nearly every item of the budget.
On his visit to India, Vladimir Putin is to conclude three weapons contracts totaling $4 billion, including one that at last draws a line under the Admiral Gorshkov’s final price.
The Ministry of Justice has finalized amendments to the federal law “On the Russian Federation’s Military-Technical Cooperation With Foreign States,” and from now on, the federal government will protect intellectual property on all weapons being sold abroad.
Vladimir Putin inspects the new fifth-generation T-50 fighter plane.
A week after the memorable meeting at which Prime Minister Vladimir Putin gave a dressing-down to the power industry for failing to implement investment programmes, TGK-11 announced that it was cutting investments by more than three times. The company will concentrate on modernisation and abandon plans to build new facilities.
On December 3rd of last year, the nephew of World War II veteran Nina Demidenko got through to Vladimir Putin during his regular television phone-in programme and complained about the Azov bureaucrats who refused to give a flat to his aunt.
In synch with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's tour of the North Caucasus republics, the Interior Ministry of the Russian Federation under the command of Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev launched an operational-strategic exercise that became unexpectedly real. Troops in Ingushetia carried out their counterterrorist operation against a band of militants discovered shortly after the prime minister's departure.
