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 and trade unions come together to change the situation in the labour market.
In 2009, President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin were the main stars of live political broadcasts.
The agency called upon to wean generals off the budget enters the third year of its existence.
A look at the businesses of Vladimir Putin’s friends, colleagues, neighbours, and acquaintances.
The 2000s in review: from boundless freedom to irresponsible pseudo-stability.
Only this time, it will be in Moscow.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin intends to restore a monument to the victims of the Second World War that was recently demolished in Georgia — but this time, in Moscow.
Vladimir Putin's proposal will be partially financed by the Georgian diaspora in Moscow.
In anticipation of the holiday, the prime minister approves new regulations on fireworks and other pyrotechnics.
The monument to the victims of the Second World War recently demolished in Kutaisi, Georgia will be restored in Moscow. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin yesterday called on his fellow citizens to support the decision.
The Russian Technologies state corporation, a minority shareholder of Avtodiesel (Yaroslavl Diesel Engine Plant), is blocking the plant's planned 5.8 billion rouble loan agreement with VEB. The plant expected to use the loan for a new truck engine project.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) plans to invest some 4.6 billion roubles in a Russian commercial bank, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin told a government commission on foreign investment on December 21.
When a person passes away, the overall tone of his reception is often an indicator of his place in history, even allowing for an inevitable degree of social hypocrisy. But if he receives equally warm and emotional tributes from people as different as Vladimir Putin and Mikhail Khorodkovsky – and this is what happened on the day of Yegor Gaidar’s death – one might reconsider either one’s disingenuousness; indeed, it follows from their messages of condolence that the personality of the deceased loomed so large that even people who cannot agree on anything speak with one voice.
Expert’s Man of the Year for 2009 is President of Ingushetia, Yunus-bek Yevkurov. We believe that he has launched a new trend in politics in the North Caucasus and, by extension, in the whole country.
The Bolshoi Drama Theatre to receive 200 million roubles for restoration.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visits the School of Higher Sports in St Petersburg, where he used to practice judo wrestling.
This week, Vlast offers a world popularity rating of Russians in the media based on exposure in foreign sources over the fourth quarter of 2009.
The keynote of 2009 in Russia was, predictably, the fight against the economic crisis. The fight still continues, but this has hardly made any difference in the strength of the ruling tandem created a year ago, writes our observer, Dmitry Kamyshev.
As usual, the staff of Kommersant-Vlast has selected ten criminal cases from 2009 with precedents for years to come.
The administrative tsunami that swept up the owners of clubs and cafes in the wake of the fire in Perm has reached the top echelons of power, and this time, it may not only touch regional scapegoats (as has already happened in Perm, where leading government officials have resigned), but also Moscow bosses, including some high-ranking government officials. Perhaps for the first time in the last eight years, Russia is on the brink of a major government shakeup.
During the single day that Prime Minister Vladimir Putin spent in his native St Petersburg, he managed to launch a new supertanker intended for the Far North, to discuss the situation in the defence industry, find money to rescue the building of the Bolshoi Drama Theatre (BDT) and floor several judo masters.
The US Congress does not believe that Russia needs the modern helicopter carriers that the OPK is planning to build at its shipyards.
The Federal Antimonopoly Service responds to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's statement Thursday.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin calls for the development of a long-term programme to transform the shipbuilding industry.
Vladimir Putin began his visit to his native St Petersburg at the Admiralty Shipyards, the oldest in the country. The Prime Minister was invited to launch a new tanker.
The book launching of Without Putin... by Mikhail Kasyanov, leader of the Popular Democratic Union, was disrupted in Kiev on Thursday evening.
A new scientific institution – a nuclear physics academy – is being established Carte Blanche.
Alexei Venediktov, “This is a small world and we all live here together.”
Vladimir Putin confident that electronic trading will eliminate bribe-taking.
Vnesheconombank has helped oil companies and aircraft manufacturers and is now dealing with Sviazbank.
The Russian Prime Minister has demanded that growth in prices for public utility services be economically substantiated. As of now utility rated are often raised at random.
South Ossetia is at risk of social disruptions.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is expected to pay a visit to the Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theatre in St Petersburg (BDT) today. The renovation of the run down theatre is finally underway, after Putin intervened. Izvestia stopped by the theatre to assess the scale of the project.
The adjustment of prices for light, heat and water inevitably tops the agenda every December. The government has been trying to find the perfect balance between the interests of suppliers and the interests of consumers for many years now. Power engineering specialists are still under the impression that our houses are heated for free, but citizens, on the contrary, consider these prices to be mind-bogglingly high. Yesterday, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin called on ministers to put an end to the long-running argument and charge only the amounts called for by special electric metres.
The federal ministries have received a list of goods that they must now buy only through virtual tenders.
Members of United Russia examined the work of Vladimir Putin’s public reception rooms.
Yesterday, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin gave the green light to a massive new construction project in Mordovia, where it is badly needed.
… and Gennady Kurzenkov to Federal Service for the Supervision of Transport.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was in St Petersburg last week, where he wished actress Alisa Freindlich a happy 75th birthday. Apart from hosting a traditional birthday tea party, she used the opportunity to complain that the Georgy Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theatre (GABDT), where she works, was horribly dilapidated. A source informed the newspaper that while the prime minister was aware that the theatre had problems, he was shocked to hear from Ms Freindlich that there were "cracks in the walls and stains on the ceiling from past leaks."
In 2012, Russia will celebrate a thousand years of unity between the Mordovian and Russian peoples. "A government organising committee has already started preparations for a festival to celebrate the anniversary," Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced. "Yet the colourful show is only a pleasant bonus," he added.
Politically speaking, Mikhail Gorbachev has suffered a defeat. The “democratic reforms” that he tried to carry out in the Soviet Union ended in its disintegration. But that’s not the only result of his six and a half years of leadership, a period in which he made two unprecedented achievements.
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung paid a visit to Moscow.
It would be impossible to get by without the Sayano-Shushenskaya power plant. Megawatts of energy are unaccounted for. Hydrologists are predicting disastrous floods down the river from the plant unless there is a dam to stop it. Yet, the arguments made by residents of Cheryomushki and Sayanogorsk are much simpler: these settlements were set up around the plant, and as soon as the plant goes, the villages go with it. Izvestiya reporter Andrei Krasikov visited the power plant and quickly learned that not only would the dam stand strong, but so would the people.
Living under Medvedev does not necessarily mean living after Putin.
Croatian President Stepan Mesic has visited Moscow and negotiated Zagreb’s possible involvement in the planned South Stream gas pipeline with Russian leaders. The relevant inter-governmental agreement is currently being drafted, a senior Government official told the paper.
It is not absolutely clear whether it is possible or impossible to live the way we do.
The government has doubled one-time assistance to those who want to start up a business to 100,000 roubles.
Heads of the CIS countries are looking for new forms of integration.
In his first reaction to the tragedy in Perm, President Dmitry Medvedev clearly specified the guilty and the innocent: “Ordinances were issued but they did not react to them… They have neither brains, nor conscience… And on top of all that they went into hiding… A failure to observe ordinances must involve stricter punishment. It’s no use blaming fire-fighters for everything.” Such an assessment can only be explained by a lack of practical experience.
On December 11 Prime Minister Vladimir Putin attended the 2nd Russian Innovation Convention in St Petersburg.
