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
Putin meets with parliamentary parties before government report.
Putin names development milestones for hybrid automobile industry.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has urged ministers to avoid simple straightforward solutions and criticised the Finance Ministry’s proposal to sharply raise alcohol and tobacco excise tax.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin held a meeting on Russia’s socio-economic strategy until 2020 in his residence in Novo Ogaryovo yesterday. He discussed new tactics as opposed to adjustments for the crisis. A decision had to be reached concerning the national budget for the next few years.
The Sheremetyevo and Vnukovo airports will become an integral whole – for now only on paper – as the federal government purchases a large chunk of the Moscow city government’s shares in Vnukovo. The airports will later be connected via express trains.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has criticised the international coalition’s policy on Libya.
The Russian Figure Skating Federation yesterday sent its official bid to the International Skating Union (ISU) to hold the World Figure Skating Championships in Moscow instead of Tokyo.
The South Stream gas pipeline project will proceed according to the original plan, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin assured his Slovenian counterpart, Borut Pahor.
The tragedy in Japan has prompted Russia to return to its shelved projects to supply Japan with electricity. It may take two years to carry them out. Electricity capacity would amount to about six gigawatts.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will head the supervisory board of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Organising Committee.
The government has instructed domestic oil companies to speed up the development of their projects in the Far East. Rosneft will start to develop Sakhalin-5 in six years. It plans to build the first stage of the Primorsky petrochemical plant, at an estimated $6 billion, within six years as well.
During his visit to Sakhalin Prime Minister Vladimir Putin saw for himself that radiation background was normal and he instructed all services to stay on high alert in case the Japanese Fukushima-1 Nuclear Power Station (NPS) got out of control.
The prime minister learned a secret about American pigs from the Voronezh regional governor.
On March 15, Vladimir Putin demanded a complete report on the Russian nuclear sector from the Energy Ministry, Rosatom, and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.
Specific projects are United Russia’s main election technology, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, leader of the pro-Kremlin United Russia party, told partisan activists at his Novo-Ogaryovo residence near Moscow.
A new nuclear power plant, due to be built by Russian specialists in Belarus, will be absolutely safe, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin assured Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and Prime Minister Mikhail Myasnikovich during their negotiations in Minsk.
Special economic zones must continue granting privileges and benefits, and foreign companies must be encouraged to become residents there, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said at a meeting on incentives for regional innovation in Tomsk.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin commented on the results of the March 13 regional elections during his visit to Tomsk. He spoke as the United Russia party leader.
The government decided to offer increased liquefied gas and coal supplies to Japan at a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
Governors across Russia have failed to open planned perinatal centres and revise the healthcare modernisation programmes in their regions. During a recent meeting in Ryazan, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said he will not tolerate this kind of attitude.
At a meeting with Valery Ryazansky, leader of the Pensioners’ Union of Russia, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin suggested indexing two social pensions (a disability pension and a pension for people who for some reason do not receive labour pensions) simultaneously this April.
Yesterday Prime Minister Vladimir Putin held a meeting at the Government House on the preparation of long-term programmes that will form the basis of budgetary planning for 2012 – 2014.
Russia has the resources to keep prices for fuels reasonable. We must rule out any speculation, the prime minister told Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko.
United Russia will decide which public officials will have to disclose their expenses.
United Russia must offer society the best solutions to the problems facing the country, the party’s leader, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, said at the party’s interregional conference in Bryansk. Experts say he is increasing the party’s involvement in decision-making.
Andrei Krainy, head of the Federal Agency for Fishery, told Prime Minister Vladimir Putin that amateur fishermen will not be charged for fishing.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has addressed an interregional conference of the pro-Kremlin United Russia party in the Central Federal District and discussed plans for anti-corruption measures and fiscal transparency.
An integral company will expand fourth-generation (4G) communications networks in Russia. The biggest three mobile operators, Rostelekom and Russian Technologies have signed an agreement to purchase the Yota Group in the presence of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin chaired a meeting on the problems of the mining industry. The Federal Service for Supervision of Environment, Technology and Nuclear Management (Rostekhnadzor) plans to overhaul the work safety system at coal mines. Notably, coal mine managers will be required to personally monitor the situation underground.
Prime Minister Putin visited Tambov, where he promised farmers that they would be able to get a discount on land. He also promised that teachers who agree to work in villages would be provided with 500,000 rubles and housing. He also pledged that mothers of large families would get minivans and assistance in repaying their loans.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has decided that Russia should review its relations with Belarus within the framework of a common economic space.
Yesterday a gala concert to celebrate the 80th birthday of Russia’s first President, Boris Yeltsin, took place at the Bolshoi Theatre.
Business Association wants to update Startegy-2020.
Last week, United Russia leader, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with people at his United Russia office in Orenburg.
The New Year’s Eve apocalypse cost Russian power companies 1.77 billion roubles, IDGC Holding (Interregional Distribution Grid Companies) CEO Nikolai Shvets told Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at a meeting.
Chechnya exceeds its plan for extra-budgetary funds.
Small companies will be spared administrative barriers and excessive taxes.
Russia is ready to grant Belarus $4.1 billion worth of subsidies to purchase oil and a loan for the construction of a nuclear power plant. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin made these proposals to his Belarusian counterpart Mikhail Myasnikovich.
Today Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will discuss the terms for oil distribution to Belarusian refineries with his Belarusian counterpart Mikhail Myasnikovich. Russian oil companies want the price of oil to include a share of any sale of redistributed oil products. They also insist on the Minsk-guaranteed freedom of exports of oil products processed from Russian crude oil. Only the Belarusian government can guarantee this.
Speaking at a meeting of the leaders of veteran associations and elderly people’s unions, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said that all military personnel dismissed from service in the 1990s would receive flats (if they didn’t have one) by the end of this year or the beginning of next year. In addition, starting in 2012, the Government will adjust the difference between civil and ex-military pensions. The Government’s Veterans Council will resolve any new issues.
It will now be easier to assess the investment climate in Russia's regions. The Government has expanded the number of criteria making it possible to assess regional business climates.
Norilsk Nickel is seeking to purchase two nickel deposits in Voronezh. At a meeting with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Friday, Norilsk Nickel's General Director and Board Chairman Vladimir Strzhalkovsky reported that the company's financial results in 2010 were above their own forecasts, with revenue of about $15 billion. Strzhalkovsky appealed to the prime minister to hold a competition for control of two promising deposits in the Voronezh Region, pledging to invest 1.2 billion roubles in them if Norilsk Nickel were to win. Putin agreed to look into the initiative.
United Russia, with the participation of its leader, Vladimir Putin, will hold a regional conference in the Central Federal District on the threshold of the spring legislative assemblies elections, where deputies in several regions will be elected. Party leaders head to problematic (for their Party) regions this week, and dozens of State Duma deputies will be starting to work in the regions as well with a view to the State Duma campaign, United Russia told Ъ.
Vladimir Putin has signed a resolution to cut 5% of the government executive office’s personnel as per with the presidential decree on optimizing the incredibly large number of government officials. Starting on March 31st of this year, therefore, only 1,453 people will be going to work at the Russian White House. But this is only the first stage of reductions, which will continue into the future.
A snow cyclone, which left 4,400 Russian villages without electricity, is moving towards the North Western regions, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said at a meeting of the Government Presidium held on January 13, 2011. He said local authorities must be prepared “to respond properly if anything like what we have seen in Central Russia happens there.”
The Parliament of Kyrgyzstan is considering a legal motion to rename a 4,446-metre Tien Shan peak after Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. However, the relevant legislation needs to be amended in order to make it a reality.
Today’s 11.4% loan rates should not hamper economic development. The Central Bank of Russia and the Government will continue to reduce loan rates, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin promised on December 28, after visiting the new Vneshtorgbank (VTB) head office at the Moscow City business centre.
Kyrgyzstan plans to resume joint energy projects with Russia and is also inclined to join the Customs Union currently comprised of Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his newly-appointed Kyrgyz counterpart Almazbek Atambayev discussed this possibility at their first face-to-face meeting.
Over 2,000 of Moscow’s 15,000 “non-stationary shops” – better known as street kiosks – have been demolished. Employers’ associations are now appealing to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to preserve at least small pavilions in the regions.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin meets with sport fans, scoring an overwhelming victory.
