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
The head of United Russia relinquishes the role of supra-party leader to Dmitry Medvedev.
It will be effective starting January 1, 2010
This time around, the government can punish them for burning associated gas.
Major Dymovsky sacked without waiting for inspectors from Moscow.
Vladimir Putin received investors in a somewhat informal setting at the Baltschug Hotel.
The residents of the single-industry town "rescued by Putin" are stocking up on macaroni and threatening the authorities with a revolt.
In the meantime, he has provocations from his local colleagues to fear.
Russia will welcome all new-comers.
There’s an old joke about a guy who goes to see a doctor because he’s been having problems with his eyesight. His problem is that he sees a naked woman everywhere he looks. It turns out that his problem isn’t in his eyes but in his mind (“but I see her all the time”).
Dmitry Medvedev will visit Berlin today to attend celebrations marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. On the eve of his trip he gave an interview to the German magazine Der Spiegel.
233,000 citizens have visited the offices in a little over a year.
After a slight dip in October, approval ratings for Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin have rebounded. This was shown by the latest poll conducted by the Public Opinion Fund (POF) whose results were published on Friday. The President’s approval rating stands at 59% compared with 56% last week and the Prime Minister’s rating is up from 66% to 70%. Along with these changes the number of those who mistrust Medvedev and Putin dropped to 12% and 9% respectively.
The government has provided Rostekhnologii with 1.1 billion roubles in accordance with the executive order issued by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (the document is posted on the government website www.government.ru). This money is intended to reimburse the costs incurred by Air Union Alliance, the Prime Minister’s press spokesman Dmitry Peskov explained to Vedomosti. The total amount earmarked in the budget is 3.5 billion roubles, of which 1.5 billion roubles have already been disbursed.
The television channel NTV is set to broadcast political commentator Vladimir Kondratyev’s documentary film about the fall of the Berlin Wall at 19:25 on Sunday, November 8. Vladimir Kondratyev was chief of the Soviet Radio and Television Office in Bonn in 1989.
The government plans to combat bootleg alcohol by setting the minimum retail price for a bottle of vodka at 90 roubles.
Prime Minister Putin was recently shown cutting-edge Russian 180 nanometre microchips. In just a few years, we'll push the frontier to 90 nanometers. And who cares if the Intel Corporation has already unveiled a new 32 nm microprocessor?
The prime minister is despondent over the collapse of the deal to buy the German car giant.
The government should develop a mechanism for compensating servicemen.
The government fails to find support for plans to reduce aid to the financial sector.
Vladimir Putin proposes drastic changes to the economic model of Russian cinema.
Book shops in Saratov turned down an ideological book for kids.
Moscow has not made up its mind about what candidate to support in the Ukrainian presidential election.
The government is cutting the bank bailout programme by 60%.
In spite of the tough rhetoric President Medvedev used against state corporations in his address to the Federal Assembly, their abolition or transformation seems to be only a remote possibility. And perhaps this is not such a bad thing.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin warned the European Union yesterday about possible problems with gas transit through Ukrainian territory resulting from payment issues. He mentioned the matter in a telephone conversation with Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, the current chairman of the EU. The issue was also the first thing that Mr Putin brought up at a meeting with the United Russia Party leaders earlier. He had discussed the situation with Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko over the telephone just before the meeting. The matter is a serious cause for concern in Moscow, lest things deteriorate so much that Gazprom is forced to shut off gas supplies again in early January. By all appearances, Kiev has the money to pay, but not the political will.
Russia is set to join trade in greenhouse gas emissions. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has approved a new procedure for endorsing companies’ projects, and government officials all promise that the mechanism is about to be launched.
The crisis will in no way hinder the renewal of data on the Russian population: Rosstat will be given back the money taken from its 2010 budget and compensated for the shortfalls in its budgeting in 2009.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin pledged to provide housing for all Great Patriotic War veterans in 2010, including those who were not put on the waiting list before March 1, 2005.
This is not the first time that Alexander Chernoshchekov from St Petersburg, an animalist who retrained as a sculptor, has cast a bust of a Russian leader for the personal collection of Californian Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. He already has busts of Lenin and Stalin, and now wants a bust of Putin.
On Wednesday the Council of Ministers of the Union State convened for a meeting chaired by Russian and Belarusian Prime Ministers Vladimir Putin and Sergei Sidorsky respectively. Both parties committed to make their planned contributions to the budget of the Union State in full despite the recession.
On December 8, 1999, almost exactly 10 years ago, Russia and Belarus signed an agreement to enter into the Union State. At the meeting of the Council of Ministers of the Union State yesterday, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin called for an appropriate celebration of this date.
The Yury Levada Analytical Centre published on its site the results of the public opinion poll where our compatriots were asked to say whose interests are expressed by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and President Dmitry Medvedev.
On Sunday, November 8, the Russian television channel NTV will show The Wall, a documentary dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The one-hour documentary was directed by NTV political correspondent and well-known journalist Vladimir Kondratyev, who is the only journalist who is called by the traditional, respectful Russian patronymic form of address on live news.
Employees at KD Avia airlines are preparing to protest their unpaid wages in the run-up to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s visit to Kaliningrad, the Russian exclave on the Baltic.
Vladimir Putin visits one of Russia’s oldest orthopedic centres.
The Kaliningrad Region authorities are through with their hurried preparations for Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s visit.
Yesterday Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited a new building of the Turner Children’s Orthopedic Research Institute in the city of Pushkin, near St Petersburg.
Regional officials have begun implementing Vladimir Putin’s instruction to ban representatives of pharmaceutical companies from hospitals and out-patient clinics. Without waiting for the requirement to be legalized, they tell pharmaceutical agents not to appear while physicians receive patients or just send them directly to the management.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin told the third Russian-Finnish Forest Summit that Moscow would not raise round timber export duties in 2010. The decision not to charge prohibitive export duties is linked with plunging demand for timber. The prime minister said current duties could be retained throughout 2011, unless the global-market situation improved.
German businessmen promise Vladimir Putin to boost the Russian economy.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with German businessmen yesterday after opening a Volkswagen factory in Kaluga the day before. He warmly thanked the German partners for their commitment to cooperating with Russia and in turn, the Germans promised not only to provide investments, but also to contribute to the formation of a middle class in Russia.
As this paper reported, Vladimir Putin launched a total cycle assembly of cars at the Volkswagen plant just outside Kaluga last Tuesday. Later in the evening, he chaired a meeting on regional development (which started after this paper had already gone to press), where he made some very important and harsh statements.
German companies are set to take part in the second wave of privatisation in Russia, the Chairman of the Eastern Committee on Eastern European Economic Relations, Klaus Mangold, said during Vladimir Putin's meeting with German businessmen yesterday: "We believe that the privatisation programme the government announced several weeks ago in Russia provides new opportunities to promote cooperation between Russia and Germany."
The new system of appointing regional governors is unexpectedly turning into a semblance of electoral race. The contenders for governor whose names have been submitted for approval to the Kremlin aren’t fighting for votes, but rather for the good will of regional and federal elites. And at times the battle lines are drawn within the same party.
World War II veterans may not receive the flats promised by President Medvedev in time for the 65the Victory Anniversary. Yesterday Prime Minister Vladimir Putin promised to remove some of the barriers preventing war veterans from getting new housing. However, the money allocated by the government falls short of the real cost of the flats, and many veterans will not be able to move into the new flats before Victory Day on May 9. 34,000 World War II veterans are currently in need of new housing. However, Russia has failed to provide each with even just a one-room flat by 2010.
Residents living in Aprelevka’s buildings have been battling for operational lifts for ten years.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited the Volkswagen automobile plant in Kaluga yesterday, where he told our special correspondent, Andrei Kolesnikov, that he was pleased with the products of this thriving auto giant in Russia—at least more pleased than with the products of AvtoVAZ, which has become a black hole for billions from the Russian budget. Indeed, as if to challenge the ambitions AvtoVAZ still seems to entertain, the plant’s top managers in Kaluga were pointedly hinting that they would soon be assembling Audis, too.
The government has developed a plan to catch up with our northern neighbour in timber processing.
For the first time in the history of the alcohol industry, the state is easing administrative pressure on legal alcohol producers.
The ambitious Nord Stream gas pipeline project has obtained its first construction permit from the Danish Energy Agency for the section of the pipeline to cross Danish waters. The Swiss project operator, Nord Stream AG, announced the news.
