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
Vladimir Putin arrived at Sukhoi aircraft design centre on Monday evening in order to see for himself the design of the fifth-generation T-50 fighter, the pride of the Russian military aircraft industry. Unlike the previous versions, the T-50 combines the functions of an assault plane and a fighter and outpaces Western analogues on the "cost/efficiency criterion."
Yesterday, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin held a meeting with public health officials at which it was agreed that the quality control of medical services will be toughened – perhaps by a new government body set up for that purpose.
Yesterday, Vladimir Putin held a government meeting under the somewhat cumbersome title: "Improvement of control and supervisory functions in the fields of healthcare and social security." But in fact, the problems discussed were very real, and amount to the kind of pitfalls Russians face every day with regard to the quality of medical drugs and services.
The main tests of the fifth-generation Russian fighter known as T-50 are due to start in April. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited the Sukhoi design office yesterday to look at the progress in creating the fighter plane. He said that the number of the country's strategic enterprises will be cut by more than half.
Following yesterday’s talks in Moscow, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his Croatian counterpart Jadranka Kosor signed an agreement of cooperation during construction and operation of a gas pipeline on the territory of Croatia. As a result, Croatia will join the South Stream project and take part in the transport of large quantities of Russian gas to Europe.
The government will strip half of the companies it employs in strategic initiatives of their privileges as partners.
The United Russia Party is making a commotion over the water problem, and it wants to do something drastic. The first United Russia member to raise the issue was none other than Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, who famously published a book about reversing the course of rivers. The State Duma Speaker Boris Gryzlov then picked up the slack, proposing a clean water project on behalf of his party. Their efforts were not in vain.On instructions from the party's leader, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade drafted the new Clean Water Programme and submitted it to the government.
The French company Renault is benefiting from its friendship with the Russian authorities. Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov lavished compliments on the company yesterday during the launch of new manufacture at Avtoframos, and later Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, taking time off his schedule, told the head of Renault, Carlos Ghosn, about what had been done to rescue AvtoVAZ. He promised that Russia would sponsor Renault's team in Formula 1 and in return driver Vitaly Petrov's race car would carry the Lada logo.
In the two years preceding the presidential election, Vladimir Putin's party will hold eight mini-congresses in various regions of the country.
Vladimir Putin arrived in Magas yesterday, greeted by the presidential envoy in the North Caucasus Federal District, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Khloponin, the Minister of Regional Development Viktor Basargin and the Director of the Federal Security Service Alexander Bortnikov.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin made a visit yesterday to Ingushetia, one of the most troubled Russian regions. The government will make targeted investments in the social and economic development of the republic beginning in 2010: the prime minister said that the budget will disburse 43 billion roubles before 2016.
Vladimir Putin, who only a couple of months ago warned Renault about the possibility of its share in AvtoVAZ being diluted, has had a change of heart. At a Monday meeting, the prime minister thanked Carlos Ghosn, the head of the Renault-Nissan alliance, for supporting AvtoVAZ and promised to support the parts suppliers. He also invited the Franco-Japanese alliance to participate in the construction of a car plant in the Far East.
The prime minister has visited North Ossetia and Ingushetia.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has promised that the military will receive 1,500 new planes and helicopters and 200 new systems of air defense before 2020.
Today Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with president of Renault Carlos Gohsn, and although their main topic will be AvtoVAZ, RBC sources believe that the two men may also discuss the first ever Russian Formula-1 driver, Vitaly Petrov, who is currently racing for the 2010 Renault team without sponsorship.
Vladimir Putin briefly played the role of a student last Friday when he visited a Tyumen school that turned out to be anything but ordinary.
At the end of his visit to the Tyumen Oil Research Centre, Vladimir Putin made a final conclusion: in order to make Russian business competitive in foreign markets, the country must have a base of highly skilled manpower – training scientists and technicians as well as young workers.
The Government will continue to assist Russian Railways (RZhD), Prime Minister Vladimir Putin promised during a meeting in Sochi. Inspired by these words, Vladimir Yakunin, the head of RZhD, immediately asked the prime minister to fork over federal subsidies for the construction of transport facilities for the Olympic Games, and, for good measure, to increase the company’s investment programme by at least 400 billion roubles.
The Ministry of Industry and Trade will come to the aid of the Russian pharmaceutical industry by distributing budget money to major companies. Yesterday the ministry proposed subsidies to Biokad for developing drugs on the basis of monoclonal antibodies, which are effective in cancer treatment. The total cost of the project is about 600 million roubles, said Biokad CEO Dmitry Morozov, and the government is prepared to shell out 145 million. However, creating conditions for the development of the industry as a whole would be a much more effective approach. The faulty price regulation of critical drugs often forces companies to reduce their range of products or operate at a loss, which is compounded by cumbersome export procedures and the lack of tough quality standards. And this is only the beginning of the problems major Russian pharmaceuticals face.
Not only the children of oligarchs, but also gifted and special needs children now have hope for better private schools.
President Dmitry Medvedev’s interview with French magazine Paris Match appeared yesterday on the Kremlin’s site. The interview was timed to coincide with his visit to France. Medvedev spoke, in particular, about future presidential elections. NG experts have different interpretations of his words. Some of them believe that he was addressing the faction of the elite that may become his supporters in the 2012 campaign.
The Samara-based Krylia Sovetov football club has obtained a licence to remain in the Russian Premier League.
On February 20, President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin took an active part in the memorial events devoted to the 10th anniversary of the death of Anatoly Sobchak, the first mayor of St Petersburg. Both Medvedev and Putin called Sobchak a true free thinker and admitted that his seat on the political Olympus has since remained vacant.
St Petersburg held memorable events that were attended, among others, by President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
Vladimir Putin’s schedule prevented him from attending the opening ceremony for the 2010 Olympic Games, but the day before the start of the Olympics he came to Sochi and had a video link with the “Russian House” in Vancouver, the biggest Olympic residence in Russia’s history. Even erratic communications did not prevent him from inspiring the Russian team and IOC members.
The Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited two automotive enterprises in Naberezhnye Chelny yesterday: KamAZ and the Fiat assembly plant. The difference between the old and the new plants was striking.
Vladimir Putin told the Lithuanian President.
The prime minister launches new car-making project in Naberezhnye Chelny.
Vladimir Putin launches new small car production enterprise.
Fiat comes back after an unsuccessful attempt two years ago to buy a blocking share in AvtoVAZ. Seven years from now it will have a similar enterprise, with money for its construction to be put up by VEB.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin arrived in Naberezhnye Chelny on Thursday. Visiting the Sollers Plant which produces Italian Fiats, the Prime Minister was shown a spic-and-span new workshop in which the plant’s products were displayed: they included the main commercial Fiat Albea model, the Fiat Panorama which is assembled here and the future Linea model for which the production line is being installed.
Vladimir Putin visits Helsinki to mark Nord Stream’s victory over ecologists.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will arrive in Helsinki today to take part in the summit on Baltic ecology. Apart from Finnish and Russian leaders, the event will bring together King Carl Gustaf of Sweden, the presidents of Lithuania and Latvia, the prime ministers of Denmark, Norway and Estonia, ministers from Poland and Germany, and numerous business representatives. The main goal of the meeting is to jointly protect the Baltic Sea from pollution and the depletion of fish stocks. Mr Putin will describe measures taken by Russia to protect the sea in connection with the construction of the Nord Stream gas pipeline.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin demanded that his ministers put budget funds to better use.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, set to visit Bashkortostan on February 8, will negotiate with 76-year-old Bashkir President Murtaza Rakhimov, raising the issue of his early resignation. Nine “old-timer” regional leaders who have already served three to four terms in office might also have to step down in March-October 2010.
Yesterday, Prime Minister and United Russia (UR) leader Vladimir Putin met with other executives from his party – Duma Speaker Boris Gryzlov, Secretary of the UR General Council Presidium Vyacheslav Volodin, and First Deputy Duma Speaker Oleg Morozov.
Vladimir Putin will visit the Republic of Bashkortostan for the first time in the past three years. Kremlin officials hope that he will manage to persuade Murtaza Rakhimov, the oldest among the governors, not to put off his retirement.
“No serious problems have arisen?” Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin asked CEO of Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin with regard to the Sapsan high-speed train. ‘No serious problems have arisen,” Mr. Yakunin replied. Their meeting was held immediately following the announcement that the term of ticket sales for Sapsan trains would be reduced from 45 to 15 days, thus making it impossible to book the tickets after March 13. Unofficial sources claimed that the chance was caused by technical malfunctions, citing photos of a wheel set with 6mm cracks (quite some wear and tear after only a month of operation!).
A modern computer class was opened in the village of Starodubka of the Omsk Region. Now a school with only 62 students has equipment that would make even Moscow schools green with envy.
At a meeting on state services in the sphere of education, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin demanded an early elimination of mechanisms for corruption in licensing educational institutions.
In the middle of January, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin held a meeting at his residence in Novo-Ogaryovo that was historical in its own right. The meeting was devoted to the future of the Russian science. The well-known Kurchatov Institute, or, to be more precise, the establishment of Russia’s first national research centre to be based upon it, topped the agenda. But in fact, no one apart from those who hold special interest in this project understood that the meeting was groundbreaking.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has recently been interested in the problems of Russian theatres. Quite recently, he took a most active part in the destiny of St Petersburg’s Georgy Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theatre. The famous Mariinsky Theatre is next on the list.
Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus Kirill celebrated the first anniversary of his ordination. The celebrations in honour of the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church lasted for two days straight and were held on Monday and Tuesday.
Yesterday, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with Artistic Director of the Mariinsky Theatre Valery Gergiev. From the very beginning, Vladimir Putin assured the master that “support for music will always be one of the government's top priorities in culture,” which is why “the government will allocate a total of 6.4 billion roubles ($218.6mln) from the federal budget for supporting musicians in 2010.” Vladimir Putin also promised to support touring musicians to prevent “people living in remote Russian regions from feeling alienated from the country's cultural life.”
The Customs Union that has united Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan since January 1, 2010, must be transformed into a unified economic space in two years. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin believes that the new union has the potential to turn into a global centre attracting capital and high technology. However, experts believe that this is just wishful thinking.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin instructed financiers to write off fines and penalties levied against in-debt fishing companies.
The Customs Union of Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan should not create favourable conditions for illicit dealings through various “grey schemes”. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin issued this directive to his subordinates yesterday at a government meeting on customs regulation.
As promised, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin got down to revising Russia’s bureaucratic system, inspecting one ministry after another. In January, he deprived the Agriculture Ministry and the Emergency Situations Ministry of their excessive administrative functions. In February, the time came for the Education and Science Ministry.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has found a way to optimize state services provided by the Ministry of Education and Science. He proposed at the government meeting yesterday that higher education institutions should be issued free and permanent licenses while a great number of firms which are now issuing them should be abolished. Mr Putin is sure that this will help combat corruption in the sphere of education and make the whole system more logical and transparent.
Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour hosted a sermon to celebrate the first anniversary of the ordination of Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia. President Dmitry Medvedev and his wife Svetlana attended the sermon. Later that day, the Patriarch met with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in the Throne Room of his suite.
