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
VTB was the first Russian bank to announce its performance results for 2009. The bank received a net profit of 28 billion roubles under the Russian Accounting Standards (RAS), exceeding the level of 2008, the bank’s President, Andrei Kostin, reported to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. However, experts believe that the findings are not indicative and expect the bank to report losses under international accounting standards.
Yesterday, cabinet of ministers and directors of the leading research institutions spoke about innovations and high technologies once again.
California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will soon receive a parcel from Russia. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s bust for his collection is almost ready in a workroom on Vassiliyevsky Island in St Petersburg.
In 2008 and 2009, Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev signed decrees that were further supported by government resolutions on establishing a new National Research Centre, the “Kurchatov Institute.” The first Russian National Research Centre’s structure, staff, and financing have been constantly discussed. However, it has already become clear that the centre will be subordinate neither to the Ministry of Education and Science, nor the Russian Academy of Sciences, nor Rosatom, but exclusively to the government. This fact illustrates the special role that the centre will have to play in modernization and the development of an innovation economy.
The State Duma drops its conditions on Protocol No. 14.
Modernization in the epoch of binary democracy is reminiscent of a can with the 2018 expiration date. The next President, who will start working on his agenda this year, will sit in the Kremlin at least until 2018. This reminder was given by Dmitry Badovsky, Mikhail Vinogradov, and Dmitry Orlov in their report titled "Conservative Modernization." This modernization will be sooner "conserved" than conservative. The authors hope for the preservation of Vladimir Putin's majority as a mainstay of government stability and simultaneous evolutionary modernization. If their hopes are justified, we are bound to enter into another stagnation era. We will get almost the same 18 years of Putin's rule as we did under Leonid Brezhnev's. In Brezhnev's time, many also feared to do anything with Brezhnev's majority alongside sluggish attempts to modernize-e.g., the 1979 resolution or the 1982 comprehensive programme for the development of scientific and technical progress.
This year, the Russian Orthodox Church will re-establish control over the Moscow based Novodevichy Convent and its rich collection of icons and jewelry.
Moscow and Washington split on relationship between START and missile defence systems.
Ross Cameron, a former Australian MP, has published an article in The Sydney Morning Herald on the 10-year anniversary of the day Boris Yeltsin handed the reins of Russia to Vladimir Putin.
The Ministry of Industry and Trade promises to start paying car disposal bonuses in March. The bonus amounting to 50,000 roubles will be paid to car owners with cars older than ten years if they agree to buy a new car in exchange for the old one.
Yesterday, Alexander Shokhin, President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP), received unprecedented permission from Prime Minister Vladimir Putin for representatives of big business to officially take part in government meetings on a more or less regular basis. Previously, representatives of big business -- usually members of the RSPP Board – could merely be invited to attend, but only government officials had the right to take part in meetings of the government or its presidium.
The first car disposal facilities will open on March 8, International Women’s Day.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has invited members of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP) to take part in government meetings.
Airzena Georgian Airways operated direct charter flights from Tbilisi to Moscow.
A printed version of the January 8, 2010 programme.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has instructed the government to transfer the state-owned Novodevichy Convent, currently housing a subsidiary of the State Historical Museum, to the Russian Orthodox Church. Church representatives promise that the principle of collaboration enabling museum experts to monitor the state of the unique premises and iconostases will be implemented at the Convent. However, top Historical Museum officials remain concerned about the future of this historical monument.
The new energy conflict between Moscow and Minsk follows a certain logic. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, who, unlike his Russian counterparts, has long renounced his desire for a union state, is again displaying his talent as an ingenious political player.
A special “operation” aimed at saving Russia’s largest automaker, AvtoVAZ, was conducted over the whole of last year. Its first stage was launched in January, when the government sharply raised import duties on foreign-made cars. This measure was taken to help AvtoVAZ, whose assembly lines had been standing still since December 2008. The plant immediately reacted by raising car prices.
Moscow and Minsk have entered the new year without having come to terms on oil prices. Russia has not terminated oil supplies, but oil traders, including MSP-Oil, owned by Vladimir Bryntsalov, a well-known businessman in the 1990s, may suffer losses.
The Russian prime minister is borrowing the American experience of the 1930s whereas the president is warning that everything could come back.
The Russians will have an opportunity to talk with their prime minister in the next couple of days. Strictly speaking, this applies only to the lucky ones who will manage to get through to the anchors of the live broadcast "Conversation with Vladimir Putin" at noon on December 3. MK has found out the details of the preparations for the event.
“We need to substantially improve the quality of our rocket and space products,” Vladimir Putin said at a meeting on the modernisation of Russia’s defence industry hosted by the Energomash Research and Production Centre in Khimki, Moscow Region.
The Russian government will pay compensation of one million roubles to families of the victims of the Nevsky Express derailment, First Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov announced to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Each family will receive 300,000 roubles from the federal budget, with the remaining 700,000 roubles to be paid by regional authorities and rail transport company Russian Railways.
The Independent, London, UK
The Western world might not like the way he got his job - on a nod from Vladimir Putin, endorsed by a highly managed, if not actually rigged, election.
Yesterday, the government summed up the results of the outgoing year. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin drew one main conclusion – the crisis has been overcome owing to anti-crisis measures, but the ministers should not rest on their laurels. Putin set forth a minimum plan for the next year: support of domestic demand and business, accessibility of loans, diversification of the economy and exports, and reduction of the budget deficit.
You are bound to take this issue with you to 2010. In the morning of the last day of the outgoing year, the readers will look through the newspaper and put it aside. All of us are too busy on December 31.
Yesterday, the government summed up the results of the outgoing year. By tradition, the last meeting of the cabinet of ministers was opened by President Dmitry Medvedev rather than Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. The two leaders arrived together at the main conclusion – the crisis has been overcome owing to anti-crisis measures but the ministers should not rest on their laurels.
Vladimir Putin's tiger will ring in the New Year at the Gelendzhik safari-park.
Alexei Kudrin reported to Vladimir Putin on the compensation payments for Soviet-era deposits, which were frozen in 1991. These include Sberbank deposits and Gosstrakh (currently Rosgosstrakh) insurance policies.
What will Dmitry Medvedev and Vladimir Putin be remembered for in 2009?
The live broadcast of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s question-&-answer session has determined the prospects of the next presidential campaign.
Russia’s Ministry of Natural Resources is still trying to get customs clearance for two Caucasian/Persian leopards delivered by air from Turkmenistan. The cats have been living in Russia’s first leopard breeding and rehabilitation centre for nearly six months now.
The prime minister sums up the government’s efforts in 2009.
In response to US ballistic missile shield plans, Russia will focus on the development of offensive weapons systems, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said in Vladivostok. "If we do not develop a missile defence system, the risk arises that our partners will feel entirely secure and protected against our offensive weapons systems," the Prime Minister said. "They will feel able to act with impunity, increasing the level of aggression in politics and, incidentally, in the economy."
The two leaders’ linguistic achievements of the year.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin yesterday unveiled Russia’s first automobile plant in the Far East, to be built by Sollers. He drove the first UAZ all-terrain car that rolled off the conveyor, which he had promised to sell to Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
The United States should consider Russia’s interests without sacrificing Eastern Europe’s independence.
Vladimir Putin arrived for his New Year’s Eve visit to Vladivostok yesterday and is due back in Moscow just before the New Year. He stoically withstood the frost that met him there.
One of the oil and gas industry’s most noticeable events this year was the commissioning of the Vankorskoye field in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. Rosneft oil company commenced industrial hydrocarbons production there.
In its December poll, the Levada Analytical Centre called Prime Minister Vladimir Putin “the man of the year.” Medvedev was runner-up. Some groups put Medvedev ahead of Putin, but on the whole this is a picture we’ve gotten used to.
The current crisis has revealed that the political system that has taken shape in Russia in the 2000s is impeding and even suppressing the development of other subsystems (including the economy, science, the media, education, civil society, and public life). The interests of the security agencies and state corporations (and also the government-dependent groups of the population) have paralysed the drive for modernisation launched in the 1990s.
The Russian government hopes that the country’s Far East will become a territory with an innovative materials sector and a developed transport infrastructure to grow into an economic centre in the Pacific Rim region by 2015. This, however, will require huge investments, experts warn.
Two events coincided symbolically yesterday: Russia warned Europe of possible oil supply troubles due to a dispute with Ukraine, and the government commissioned a new oil pipeline to China. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin referred to the project as “geopolitical” in nature.
The Boris Yeltsin era ended 10 years ago. The era of his successor, Vladimir Putin, has also ended, regardless of whether he returns to power in 2012.
With the Sochi Winter Olympics in sight, the Ministry of Regional Development has not yet altered its outdated rules and regulations on construction, nor has it established protocols for bringing Russian construction up to modern, European standards.
In his meeting with Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin asked him to address Soviet deposits, frozen since 1991, in a just manner. Mr Kudrin promised to provide those who fell victims to the currency change with ‘necessary aid’ next year amounting to three Russian roubles for each Soviet one. Some experts describe this step as ‘alms-giving’ and suggest that the debt be redeemed by providing the victims with flats, for example.
Yesterday, the Emergency Situations Ministry celebrated its professional holiday, Rescuer Day. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev was meeting with Sergei Shoigu. “I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate all personnel of the Emergency Situations Ministry and those who are engaged in this hard service, who do their jobs with diligence and help the massive population of our country.”
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin inspected the Olympic venues in Sochi on Friday. The impression was mixed: construction had already started on some of the venues whereas some of the other completed venues had already tumbled down.
Become one of the world’s three largest tanker companies and double its earnings – that is what Sovkomflot plans to achieve in the next five years. And next year, the company intends to go public.
He also recommended that local authorities not alter geographical names in the meantime.
