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 Kaluga Volkswagen (VW) plant has announced that it will launch a full assembly line, following up the Volkswagen Tiguan and Skoda Octavia with a new VW economy model. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was one of the first to see the new model during his visit to the plant.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is arriving in Russia for a private meeting with Vladimir Putin, a source close to the Italian Prime Minister told RBC. The reason behind the visit was Berlusconi’s desire to wish his Russian counterpart a happy birthday, albeit belatedly. The Russian and Italian leaders are set to informally discuss “geopolitics and energy,” the newspaper II Journale, owned by Berlusconi, wrote recently.
In September, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin launched an initiative aimed at restoring the population of the Central Asian Leopard (Panthera pardus ssp. Saxicolor) in Russia’s Caucasus region. Mr Putin personally placed two male leopards into an enclosure where they will soon be accompanied by females. At a government presidium meeting yesterday, he enquired about his leopard friends with Natural Resources Minister Yury Trutnev.
The issue of timber-export duties may very well sour Russia’s relations with Finland or foreign investors soon.
Last week the ruling tandem again communicated with Russian citizens through the media. It again demonstrated the trend observed by NG: the Russian journalists are given unsophisticated propaganda vinaigrette, whereas their foreign counterparts are offered chef’s specialties. As usual, President Dmitry Medvedev makes the vinaigrette whereas Prime Minister Vladimir Putin surprises the public with gourmet dishes.
It seems the Russian government and banks will soon be lavishing loans on citizens. Another meeting on economic issues chaired by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has indicated that credit organisations are ready to provide loans with interest rates of 8% to 12%. The government is considering a one year extension for subsidized car loans and even doing away with the car price limit of 600,000 roubles.
Stalin’s descendants have lost their court case to protect the honour and dignity of the Leader of the Nations, Joseph Jughashvili (Stalin).
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin received FIFA President Joseph Blatter at the Government House yesterday to discuss Russia's prospects for hosting the 2018 World Cup match. Our special correspondent ANDREI KOLESNIKOV was present at the meeting and came away believing that Russia has a real chance of winning its bid for the championship.
As soon as Russia officially entered its bid to host the 2018 World Cup, the President of the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA), Joseph Blatter, got on a plane to Moscow. Vladimir Putin waxed lyrical on how the life of Russians would improve if FIFA awarded the game to his country. Mr Blatter was moved and said that although Russia’s bid was still in the second echelon, the chances were very good. Experts say the championship would cost Russia a minimum of 260 billion roubles.
The issue of excessive administrative procedures was raised anew at Thursday’s government meeting. In spite of the actions taken by the country’s leadership, agencies continue to make conducting business a “nightmare” in Russia. Vladimir Putin discussed the disappointing results of an inspection of monitoring and oversight agencies carried out by the Prosecutor General’s Office.
Dmitry Medvedev is setting up his own regional offices to handle complaints from citizens. The presidential envoys to the regions have been instructed that the offices should be at least as big and well equipped as similar offices maintained by Vladimir Putin.
Some alarming news is coming from Pikalevo: Fosagro and Baseltsement-Pikalevo still cannot agree on the terms for the supply of raw materials, and Pikalevsky Tsement has announced that it is withdrawing from the production chain.
The United Russia Party has developed a new version of its party programme, which essentially blends the ideas of Putin, Medvedev and Surkov.
Leonty Vyzov, member of the scientific council at the Russian Public Opinion Research Centre (VTsIOM).
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin completed his Chinese programme by talking to Russian journalists who were interested in gas supplies to China, sanctions against Iran, elections in Russia and many other problems.
American animators made Prime Minister Vladimir Putin the hero in an episode of a popular cartoon series.
After his two day visit to China, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with journalists. He summed up the results of his trip and commented on economic and political affairs in Russia and the rest of the world.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) repeats the G20 decisions.
Oleg Deripaska, Rusal’s co-owner, in a letter to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin suggested that the RusHydro holding should be split into several companies, with the Sayano–Shushenskaya hydropower plant (HPP) operating as a separate company and United Company Rusal as its co-owner.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin could make pharmaceutical companies abandon their most effective method of product promotion: he promised to ban the activities of pharmaceutical sales representatives. At present, pharmaceutical companies spend between 10% and 50% of their turnover on them.
Pikalyovo has fallen into a trap yet again and is waiting for help from the top.
The Russian Prime Minister has gone to China to cement the friendship between the two countries with economic contracts.
Deripaska has proposed to split up RusHydro and wants a share in the Sayano-Shushenskaya Hydroelectric Power Station
On his trip to Beijing, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin devoted all of yesterday to Russian-Chinese cooperation. And it was a busy day: He met with Chinese journalists, watched a parade in his honour, held talks with members of the State Council of the PRC and attended a gala concert. The Chinese made it clear that they regarded Putin as Russia’s answer to ex-Chairman Jiang Zemin.
FIFA’s president, Joseph Blatter, is set to come to Russia for a two-day official visit on October 14th. His visit is connected with Russia’s hopes to host the FIFA World Cup in 2018 or 2022. Mr Blatter is expected to discuss this matter in detail with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s visit to China may see a breakthrough in energy cooperation between the two countries. If the talks succeed, Beijing will become the biggest buyer of Russian gas. The only problem is price. The Deputy Head of Gazprom’s Board of Directors Alexander Ananenkov said that this issue is still unclear. Experts believe that the risk of Russia becoming dependent on a monopoly buyer increases with every passing day.
The year 2012 will be a turning point for the Far East. Vladivostok will play host to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, which will be an opportunity for the region to update its transportation and energy infrastructure and also to receive investment.
On Friday, Rusnano head Anatoly Chubais and Sistema CEO Vladimir Yevtushenkov signed a joint venture agreement to manufacture 90-nm electronic chips. Investment in the project will total 16.5 billion roubles.
At a meeting on developing the pharmaceutical industry at the end of the last week Prime Minister Vladimir Putin emphasised that Russian doctors should not be paid for promoting medicines or lobbying for the interests of pharmaceutical companies. Doctors and pharmacists are now scared by what a new “doctors’ plot” could mean for them. In their opinion, lobbying is not prospering in hospitals and outpatient clinics but in the offices of those officials who compile lists of discounted medicines and treatment standards.
President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin went to the polls yesterday, just like ordinary Russians, to vote for new members of Moscow’s legislative assembly – the City Duma.
On his birthday, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin devoted three hours to literature. His guests were all famous writers and conversation centered on just about everything at once – the affairs of the creative union, the Khodorkovsky case, etc. What didn’t they discuss?
The Russian pharmaceutical industry is not well, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said. He said that half the state budget allocated to medicine should be spent on domestically produced drugs.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has extended higher duties on foreign cars for another nine months. However, next July the government will be able to bring duties on new cars back down to pre-crisis levels.
According to the prime minister, the former Yukos’s CEO should confess his guilt in full.
Yesterday Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with writers and answered what seemed to Kommersant correspondent Andrei Kolesnikov an endless array of questions. Still, Kolesnikov believes that political opinion was expressed whether by those who avoided the meeting or by those who came and asked Putin why publicist Alexander Podrabinek was being harassed.
When Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with Belarusian Prime Minister Sergei Sidorsky yesterday, he didn’t utter a word about Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, who, on the contrary, said quite a bit about him just the other day. Kommersant’s special correspondent Andrei Kolesnikov thinks that the Russian Prime Minister simply decided to look the other way – at least until the Belarusian President comes to his senses.
Vladimir Putin puts it across to his Belarusian counterpart what the benefits are.
But Prime Minister Vladimir Putin went to visit the regions instead.Mr Putin conducted an interactive conference yesterday on preparations for the winter heating season. ANDREI KOLESNIKOV, a special correspondent for this newspaper, said that conference participants, all of whom are fully aware of the rigors of a Russian winter, didn’t expect Putin to be even more rigorous.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin recently met with Renault's Vice President Christian Esteve to discuss the problems of Russia’s ailing auto giant, AvtoVAZ.
The political process in modern Russia has been distinct in its formation of a new elite, which has gathered renowned overachievers from all disciplines. The Soviet model, which provided ladder-climbing opportunity for only the most zealous party activists and bureaucrats, was displaced by a market economy, private property, an embryonic multi-party system, new relationships and big money.
Ahead of the United Russia party Congress in November, its Chairman Vladimir Putin will hold another live question-and-answer TV session. He will also review the results of the work done by the party’s regional public reception offices since their creation last autumn. Nezavisimaya Gazeta has found that the United Russia deputies charged with receiving citizens routinely shirk their duties. The party’s leadership has threatened to impose severe sanctions on these failing officials. Governor Nikita Belykh will set a personal example of party discipline by working at one of these reception offices in October.
During his working visit to the Vladimir Region yesterday Prime Minister Vladimir Putin opened a new bridge across the Oka near the ancient city of Murom, visited a physical culture and sports complex in the regional centre and chaired a conference reviewing the sports facilities’ construction programme in Russia. His final stop was at the local public reception office of the United Russia party.
The Prime Minister dedicated a bridge across the Oka in Vladimir Region, launched the Merry Starts sports festival and held a conference on the building of sports facilities in the country.
Today marks the end of the six weeks Prime Minister Vladimir Putin gave to formulate a plan for the restoration of the Sayano-Shushenskaya Hydroelectric Power Plant. The plan was to take into account the established causes of the accident, but the causes have not been declared. The Energy Ministry acknowledges that the plan is not yet ready and that there is no final agreement on how the station will be rebuilt. However, it has already been determined that the power plant needs ten turbines from Silovye Mashiny totaling 21 billion roubles.
News that VGTRK was closing its Sport Channel to be replaced with a channel tentatively called Rossia-2 has caused a stir in the television community. Most market analysts agree that it leaves many questions unanswered. For example, it is unclear what the legal status of the new channel will be and on what grounds it would be included in the list of generally accessible national TV and radio channels. President Medvedev’s press secretary Natalya Timakova has refused to comment on the appearance of the new VGTRK channel and Vladimir Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov told Kommersant that “Putin has an understanding of the work of the media holding.”
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin flew to Vladimir yesterday. By looking at a local sports facility and spending 40 minutes receiving petitioners at the United Russia Public Reception Office he confirmed his guiding role in the life of United Russia, giving a much needed boost to the image of the party, which faces a regional election on October 11, 2009. This is the opinion of our special correspondent Andrei Kolesnikov.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited the Vladimir Region yesterday. After dedicating a bridge across the Oka River in the city of Murom, he headed for the city of Vladimir where he inspected a new fitness centre and chaired a video conference on the construction of sports facilities. The highlight of the trip was a visit to the Public Reception Office by the Chairman of United Russia Party, Vladimir Putin. Vladimir Putin has visited many sports facilities, both as president and prime minister.
Vladimir Putin calls on ministries to set an example in introducing austerity measures. As it happened, the measures started with Dmitry Medvedev.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and the other participants in the investment forum called Russia Is Calling officially declared that the Russian economy was recovering from the crisis. However, the forum decided that it was premature to curtail the costly anti-crisis programme, and said that the main priority was moving on from "manual control" of the economy to systemic decisions.
Addressing the VTB forum “Russia Calling!” yesterday, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said domestic gas prices will be liberalised soon, but the state will retain its monopoly on the export of gas. Kommersant’s special correspondent ANDREI KOLESNIKOV draws some consolation, however, from the prime minister’s remark that “this is not forever.”
