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 Yakunin will remain CEO of Russian Railways for four more years, according to the government decree. The Russian government has long kept the public in suspense: the previous announcement of Yakunin’s 3-year reappointment was made on June 12, 2008.
Amendments to the Code of Administrative Offences, under which careless state officials will face harsher penalties, have been approved. Complaints about the official inaction and abuse are rampant and often justified, explained Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at a meeting of the Government Presidium.
It will be easier for Russian companies to work on the global market if Russia accedes to the World Trade Organisation, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said.
The prime minister meets with the Russia’s Transport Workers’ Union.
The prime minister visited Moscow State University of Railway Engineering, where he was shown a multimedia classroom featuring Russia’s largest model of the transport system.
Olympic construction which requires 1,4 trillion roubles of investment has been removed from the list of state programmes.
Russian and Ukrainian prime ministers discuss gas and transit prices.
Vladimir Putin talks with members of the Olympic construction team around a campfire.
Oil will come to Sochi via the Black Sea bed.
The agency has also received several dozen project proposals.
It is possible to join through the internet or public reception offices in the regions.
As of June 6, the general public will be free to join the Russian Popular Front by filling out a questionnaire on Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s website.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will head the supervisory council of the Strategic Initiatives Agency, established to assist the business community.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin paid his last respects to the deceased Abkhazian President Sergei Bagapsh.
The Strategic Initiatives Agency will cost between 100 million and 200 million roubles, said Andrei Belousov, director of the government’s economic and finance department.
Construction of the Federal Research and Clinical Centre of Child Hematology, Oncology and Immunology began in south-western Moscow in 2005 on Vladimir Putin’s initiative. Putin supervised the project and visited the construction site.
VIP-Premier magazine has interviewed Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Some excerpts from the interview are published below.
The position of the Strategic Initiatives Agency's Director General will not remain vacant for long.
The number of those wishing to help the United Russia Party with their ideas continues to increase each day.
Prime minister promises to tighten control over Unified State Exam.
Today, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will discuss road construction with Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, Transport Minister Igor Levitin, and Natural Resources Minister Yury Trutnev, the Government House’s press service reported yesterday.
Russia’s ban on grain exports will be lifted on July 1, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with First Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov.
Russia must double the GDP in 10 years and create 25 million jobs.
The government discussed problems facing the army and the business community yesterday.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin proposes a new Strategic Initiatives Agency.
The government reacted swiftly to the president’s proposal to abolish the compulsory vehicle safety and emissions tests that have been conducted by the police.
The Russian Popular Front, the social movement established by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, has chosen the site of its headquarters.
Putin holds the first meeting on drafting the federal budget for the next three years.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin arrived at the patriarch’s residence in Chisty Pereulok with the traditional bouquet of white roses yesterday.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin meets with Pskov public.
Senator Nikolai Fyodorov will draft the election programme for the Popular Front. Izvestia wanted to learn why the former president of Chuvashia, who has never drafted any programme party documents, was charged with this mission.
Senior citizens will be trained how to use ATMs and electronic payment terminals free of charge.
The Russian Popular Front, advocated by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, will receive its own managers.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin arrived in Belarus to attend a meeting of the heads of government of the CIS member-states and the Eurasian Economic Community (EurAsEC). However, the main intrigue of the visit was whether Russia would offer financial assistance to its neighbour.
Government tries to close tax loopholes.
Putin tells the magazine about his favourite fishing places.
What U.S. journalists have crossed out from Putin’s interview.
Bratislava was not for nothing.
A bill on transfer price formation has been submitted for the second reading.
Putin’s views on the Strategic Initiatives Agency.
Russia sees great potential in promoting joint high-tech projects with Brazil. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Brazilian Vice President Michel Temer took the first steps toward broadening their partnership at a meeting of the Russian-Brazilian high-level commission on cooperation.
The Russian people know little about Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s new political initiative.
After securing the rights to host all possible sporting events, the government is now wondering where there are going to find the athletes.
Modernisation and innovation are not enough to save the Russian economy. Analysts from Business Russia are confident that facilitating development requires a new industrialisation. They have written their strategy in the mountains of the Caucasus, which they will submit to Vladimir Putin's Popular Front. The main objective is to create 25 million jobs.
Prime Minister brings 2016 Hockey World Championships to Russia.
Kommersant-Vlast has analysed the minutes of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's last 100 meetings with government members. They contain six instances of "Right you are, Sir," three instances of "May I inform you?" and 17 instances of "Yes, Sir."
Medvedev supports Putin’s idea of a Popular Front.
The Congress of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) opens in Bratislava today and will discuss which country will host the 2016 World Championship.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin took the treatment of a WWII veteran into his own hands, after the veteran had taken offence at officials and sent his war decorations to Moscow.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin decided to see first-hand where all the state funding for AvtoVAZ has been going.
