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
Yesterday Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited the Paramonovo training centre in the Moscow Region that will host a European tobogganing championship and tried the sport himself.
Parents in regions with negative demographic trends to receive 7,000 roubles a month.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited the recently constructed Moscow Children’s Oncology Centre.
The government is ready to increase student support from September 1 if additional funds become available.
The solution to the problem is running ahead of the schedule set by the prime minister.
The prime minister suggested that KVN teams record their own programmes and sell them on TV.
On February 8, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin approved a list of candidates for the Rosneftegaz board, which will in turn be approved later at the company's annual shareholders' meeting.
The list of airlines and destinations offering air transport discounts will be expanded. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said that the number of cities and categories of citizens who have a right to airfare discounts will be increased.
Vladimir Putin has told journalists that there will be a big cabinet reshuffle after the election.
Putin explained why there will not be any cut-price petrol in the country.
On a visit to the Chelyabinsk Region, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was shown a dilapidated residential building with open cracks in the walls.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin held a meeting of the supervisory board of the Strategic Initiatives Agency (SIA).
Putin instructed VTB Bank to put up enough money to fly stranded Russian vacationers home.
The government continues winning political points with the public at the expense of the oil companies. Yesterday Prime Minister Vladimir Putin promised the agricultural industry that this year they will be able buy fuel and lubricants at 30% off instead of the 10% discount of last year. Overall, the oil companies could lose as much as $1 billion dollars as a result.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is using a new approach to lay out his election programme – a series of articles in various newspapers. These articles are like chapters from a larger single document. This is logical since, clearly, few people are capable or willing to read the entire programme from beginning to end. In addition, any attempted discussion of all the issues in his programme would inevitably degrade into a confusing crossfire of opinion. So Mr Putin has outlined his presidential programme in a tabloid-like format.
This is what Prime Minister Vladimir Putin told skiers with disabilities. Shortly before his trip to Tambov, Putin saw a televised report about a unique specialised adaptive school for children and teenagers, which has existed in the city for several years. Its initiators – Raisa and Mikhail Oleinikovs – have almost done the impossible – they have trained the blind for downhill skiing.
I don’t know whether Prime Minister Vladimir Putin had lunch before his trip to Tambov. I didn’t, but we were both stunned by the mouth-watering aromas at the food exhibit with its not-so-tasty but matter-of-fact title – Turning Agrarian Regions into Food Security Centres.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin instructs VTB to pay the debts of the bankrupt travel agency.
The organisers of the campaign team for the presidential candidate, which has been set up in Moscow, are confident of this.
Vladimir Putin is organising state-owned companies into a modernising vertical
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced at a government meeting yesterday that retirement pensions will increase by 7% as of February 1.
The prime minister is four times more popular than his closest rival.
Illegal immigrants will be banned from Russia for 10 years.
The prime minister told the teachers, engineers and biologists of tomorrow that money was not the most important thing.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin promised to find sponsors for the Tom Tomsk football club, which finds itself in severe financial straits.
Vladimir Putin presented a development programme for the coal industry at a meeting in Kemerovo.
Presidential candidate Vladimir Putin, as promised, continued presenting the main tenets of his presidential program through a series of written articles. Today's article, the second in the series, is called "Russia: the Ethnicity Issue." You can read the full version on the website kp.ru or Putin's campaign site putin2012.ru.
The government has not decided if it is worth setting up this department.
Putin has advised clubs they must find alternative sources of income.
At a meeting with media representatives, the prime minister spoke about his publications to Izvestia.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with Andrei Krainy, the head of the Federal Agency for Fishery, at his Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow. In a well timed manner, the agency prepared a new version of the Recreational Fishing Law within a week, including amendments that will cancel fees for this activity that is so popular with Russians.
Putin has chosen a new format of interaction with the people and his political rivals, and in doing so has calmed down the elites.
Russia must focus.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has published an article on his site www.putin2012.ru titled, “Russia muscles up: The challenges we must rise to face.” Dmitry Peskov, his press secretary, later said that this is just the introductory segment of Putin’s election programme, which totals 100 pages.
Putin criticises governor for poor knowledge of region’s economic statistics.
…seeking to achieve their goals without United Russia.
This week a regular meeting of the supervisory board of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives (ASI) will take place at the Government House. At this meeting ASI directors will present their project – the Leaders Club – to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. It is aimed at helping business people conduct dialogues with top officials and promote their legislative initiatives. ASI General Director Andrei Nikitin told Izvestia that the club will allow business people from the regions to meet with ministers and governors.
The election headquarters of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has already launched its presidential campaign. Izvestia was told at the headquarters that Putin does not hold election events himself – instead, public and political figures have started touring the regions.
On Thursday evening Vladimir Putin attended a gala evening dedicated to Public Prosecutors Day in Russia (the public prosecutor's office celebrated its 290th anniversary yesterday) and congratulated them on their professional holiday.
The prime minister's spokesperson Dmitry Peskov announced that Putin would not be taking part in election debates.
Cabinet ministers have discussed the financial results for the past year.
The election site for presidential candidate Vladimir Putin was launched on January 12. The website talks about Putin's background and his current activities, but there is no election campaign programme yet.
The story of Nikita Belykh has pushed the prime minister to these strict conclusions.
Public opinion is to play a more important role in assessing the work of the heads of the regional governments than economic indicators.
Vladimir Putin will prepare his own version of the Popular Programme for the upcoming presidential election.
Yesterday Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with the journalists in his press pool as per tradition before the New Year. Availing myself of this opportunity, I decided to ask him some difficult questions – about the relations between the government and the opposition. Putin responded sincerely and never had to search for words.
As per tradition, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin answered questions from government press pool journalists before the New Year. He briefly summed up the results of 2011 and told journalists how to deal with the opposition.
Turkish Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, Taner Yıldız, handed a permit to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin allowing the construction of the South Stream pipeline in Turkey’s territorial waters and signed two long-term contracts with Gazprom for Russian gas purchases up to 2021 and 2025.
Minister of Communications Igor Shchegolev reported to Vladimir Putin on how the video equipment will be installed inside the polling stations.
The new deputy prime minister will revive the defence industry in accordance with the plan outlined in his article in the Izvestia newspaper.
