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’s latest live phone-in programme when he answered questions from callers, SMS messages and questions sent through the Internet was true to form: every next session has lasted longer than the previous one. Vladimir Putin’s first TV live linkup in 2001 lasted two and half hours, the 2005 programme lasted 2 hours and 53 minutes.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin used his live phone-in television programme to tout the government’s economic achievements and did not rule out that he would take part in 2012 elections.
Journalists are no longer allowed to cover both the president and the prime minister.
At the previous live television broadcast, Roman Grebennikov, the mayor of Volgograd, complained that he did not have enough funds to complete the construction of the bypass, which the city badly needs.
Rosneft will save $6 billion through oil export tax exemptions.
Jacques Rogge, President of the International Olympic Committee, has visited Russia. He came to see the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics logo and make sure Sochi is ready to host the event.
Tomorrow at noon the Rossiya and Vesti television networks as well as radio stations Mayak and Radio Rossii will broadcast live the special programme “A conversation with Vladimir Putin Continued.” Experts and potential participants in the annual live broadcast think people expect Putin to give a signal to bureaucrats, compel them to do something or pound a fist on the table depending on how urgent a problem is.
The Russian armed forces will be restructured starting December 1.
The future of the Russian automotive sector may be decided in Paris.
Today, Russian carmaker AvtoVAZ and Renault will sign a partnership agreement during Vladimir Putin's visit to France, which will also see the French company EDF sign an agreement to join the South Stream project. These are agreements of intent and their details are not disclosed. Kommersant has learned that the parties are discussing an increase in Renault's share in AvtoVAZ in exchange for an equity stake in the French company being transferred to the Russian carmaker. While Russia could only acquire up to 1.5% of Renault's stock on a competitive basis, the value of the deal may increase, however, through a promise to give France access to Russian energy resources.
When Mikhail Gorbachev launched his reforms in the middle of the 1980s, he did not have any models to follow. No one before him had been faced with the task of overcoming an economic crisis in a country where free market and open society were non-existent for three generations. There was no one to learn from, and Gorbachev had to tread an unknown path.
During a visit to France, Prime Minister Putin will discuss a rescue plan for AvtoVAZ, a package of energy projects, including the South Stream pipeline, and the potential purchase of a Mistral amphibious assault ship.
After the United Russia Congress the president and the prime minister had lunch at a Petersburg restaurant.
The Primorye Territory is preparing to play host to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who will inspect the facilities being built for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in 2012 and launch the Sollers car assembly plant. Some experts in Primorye do not rule out the possibility that the Putin visit may cut the ground from beneath the feet of Primorye governor Sergey Darkin, who is seeking another term in office.
The state must jump over its own head to provide decent pensions while not burdening business with more tax. This is how Vladimir Putin commented on the changes in the social and tax systems planned for the next two years.
The Government is preparing a new administrative reform. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin told a Cabinet meeting yesterday that this reform is designed to curb the sway of the bureaucracy and make the work of the bureaucrats more transparent. Most importantly, the reform is meant to change the life of each and every one of us. The times when one had to take on a quest through countless offices to collect dozens of documents will soon become history. Intermediary firms attached to government agencies are banned as of today. To prevent administrative reform being quietly sabotaged, the proposals of the ad hoc commission on administrative reform will be the subject of a fast-track procedure that excludes cumbersome interagency approvals.
The coming month will see the second substantial increase of the pension within a year. It will benefit all pensioners. The basic state retirement pension will increase by more than 31%, bringing the average retirement pension to 6,617 roubles, while the average social pension will rise to 4,268 roubles, to be above the official subsistence minimum for the first time. The next pension increase is scheduled to take place a month later, on January 1, 2010. And there will be more increases next year. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has stressed that this would eliminate poverty among pensioners.
Opening the annual Russian Pension Forum, Vladimir Putin reaffirmed the government’s commitment to implementing pension reform. The prime minister admitted that the tax burden remains the main problem for business in the course of pension reform. “We must move towards easing the fiscal load, but do it carefully,” Putin said.
Vneshekonombank (VEB) has been rewarded for its bailout operations. Ever since the crisis erupted, the Government has been turning this bank, commonly referred to as the Russian Development Bank, into a universal instrument for delivering anti-crisis assistance, including targeted assistance. So universal has VEB become to date, that it has complained more than once that it does not have enough funds to develop (its core activity) and to put up bailout money.
Gazprom will invest 33 billion roubles in 2010 in a railway on the Yamal Peninsula, for which it will expect compensation from Russian Railways (RZhD). But the latter, in turn, expects Gazprom to pay for future losses on that railway branch.
A clear answer must be given to the question of what prevents pension assets from being invested effectively, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said yesterday.
Leonid Fedun, co-owner of Lukoil, will fill in the Prime Minister on future pensions.
Vladimir Putin eliminates middleman firms.
Vladimir Putin’s annual live video link with the nation has been postponed by a week and will take place on December 4, according to our information. Just like last year, the “Conversation with Vladimir Putin” will be conducted by Rossiya TV Channel. Live links will be established with eight communities. Particular attention will be paid to the single-industry cities of Pikalyovo and Togliatti. The prime minister will also talk with the people of Sayanogorsk. One of the key topics will be the development of the Russian automotive industry.
Vladimir Putin served a stern reminder on ministers that it is high time for them to deliver on their promises, at a government meeting yesterday.
In line with Vladimir Putin's instructions, Naftogaz Ukrainy and Gazprom signed documents in Moscow yesterday to seal the agreement between the Russian and Ukrainian Prime Ministers on the volumes of Russian gas supplies next year and dropping of fines for failure to take all the contracted fuel this year. The agreements were reached on Friday. Because the order to solve all the problems had come from Putin personally, the success of the talks was a foregone conclusion. It is equally clear that Moscow is using concessions in the gas sphere to help Yulia Tymoshenko to displace Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko.
This market is to be cut by half to get rid of middlemen and unnecessary paperwork.
“The warriors recalled bygone days and the battles they lost together”. Vladimir Putin, Russian Prime Minister.
Ukrainian and Russian government working groups are preparing a package of documents on deepening economic cooperation to be signed before the New Year. The main cooperation projects are in aviation, engineering and the nuclear industry, Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said after talks with her Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, on Friday. Economists note that plans for cooperation in these areas have been in preparation from the spring of 2008, but pending the presidential election in Ukraine they can only be signed in the form of declarations of intent.
Republican senator thinks America should be tough on Moscow.
A popular jazz musician joins United Russia’s Supreme Council.
Although Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has appreciated Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s jokes about Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, her ability to negotiate gas prices with Putin is more important for Ukraine.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin took the floor after President Dmitry Medvedev. In the beginning of his address he recalled the speech he prepared for the past year's United Russia (UR) congress.
After the United Russia congress, President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin decided to have dinner together.
The government is going to pay 50,000 roubles toward the purchase of a new car to anyone who brings a used car older than 10 years to the junkyard. This is only one of the many initiatives announced by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at the United Russia (UR) congress.
Yesterday Ukraine celebrated the anniversary of the Orange Revolution, but it would be wrong to say "celebrated" because every relatively decent person felt ashamed or offended. There was nothing to celebrate.
President Dmitry Medvedev urges United Russia to bring itself up to date.
Ukraine has managed to alter the gas contract with Russia in its favor.
Transdnestr settlement to create new dynamic in the old format.
Gazprom will review its gas supply contract with Ukraine in order to allow for the purchase of less gas without Ukraine fearing penalties. Ukraine's Naftogaz expects to receive up to $1 billion in loans from Russian banks.
Dmitry Medvedev encouraged United Russia to promote modernisation in general and to reform the party itself. The party's leaders refused to develop the president's ideas.
Lukoil and Rosneft ask the prime minister to sort out licencing issues The heads of Russia’s oil majors, Lukoil and Rosneft, have sent a letter to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin requesting a rule clarification in issuing licences for exploiting hydrocarbon deposits on the continental shelf, in domestic oceans and inland seas.
How Moscow and Brussels regarded Kiev’s warnings.
Mortgage loan rates will be reduced at the expense of would-be pensioners.
In his open letter to President Medvedev, Viktor Yushchenko could not remain silent. While his main election rival Yulia Tymoshenko set off to Yalta for gas talks with Prime Minister Putin, he found a way to draw attention to himself. On the night from Wednesday to Thursday a wordy letter to Dmitry Medvedev was posted on the Ukrainian president’s website. Viktor Yushchenko suggested that the Russian president changes the gas contracts.
Vladimir Putin and Yulia Tymoshenko promised to rule out the gas issue.
Russian leaders, President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, have steadily maintained high popularity ratings for several months in a row.
The Pikalyovo plant, which resumed operation in June following Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s intervention, is again under the threat of stoppage.
The President's Address has left a very strange impression. A jumble of men and horses on the battlefield, as they say. He gives a rather negative appraisal of the heritage received from his predecessor and vaguely dreams of smart technologies, even interplanetary travel. He speaks about the ridiculous issue of time zones in Russia and promises long-awaited tax relief for charity organisations. He claims that, despite the real situation, we have an absolutely full-fledged political system and even more... It seems the text was automatically compiled from the pieces of different subjects.
The prime minister has found a sector that can do without state support.
