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26 december 2011
Press Russian International

RBC Daily: “Putin discusses the training of skilled workers”

The government is consulting business leaders on how to improve the image of skilled labour.


23 december 2011

Kommersant: "Vladimir Putin calls for stronger fiscal discipline with regard to federal programmes"

Vladimir Putin says he will personally oversee government investment.

22 december 2011

Izvestia: "Putin announces new industrialisation"

Delovaya Rossiya and the Agency for Strategic Initiatives will work with the government to prepare reforms.

22 december 2011

Kommersant: "Central Electoral Commission reports on Vladimir Putin’s income"

Yesterday a report on presidential candidate Vladimir Putin’s income was published on the website of the Central Electoral Commission (CEC).

20 december 2011

Izvestia: "Energy grids go offshore"

Putin reveals the scale of swindling in the energy industry.

20 december 2011

Izvestia: "Working on the railroad: Putin drives spike with hammer"

Prime minister starts construction of the Kyzyl-Kuragino railway.

14 december 2011

Komsomolskaya Pravda: "United Russia supports Medvedev and Putin"

Nationwide celebrations of Constitution Day have marked the launch of United Russia's presidential election campaign to support its candidate Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

14 december 2011

Komsomolskaya Pravda: "Chechnya ahead of infrastructure plans"

Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov discussed the construction of new hospitals and schools in the republic with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

13 december 2011

Izvestia: "Prime minister to talk to people"

On December 15 Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will hold his annual televised question and answer session with the people. The VGTRK press service reported that, like last year, Maria Sittel and Ernest Mackevicius will be the moderators.

13 december 2011

Izvestia: "Tver Region competing for nuclear power station"

Putin is considering the best site for a new plant.

12 december 2011

Izvestia: “ASI attracts private investors”

The ASI general director has told Vladimir Putin about the agency’s new projects.

9 december 2011

Rossiiskaya Gazeta: "Government helps companies avoid bankruptcy"

Yesterday Prime Minister Vladimir Putin held a special meeting at the Government House to clear up issues at the Bogoslovsky Aluminium Plant (BAZ) and the Taganrog Auto Plant (TagAZ).

5 december 2011

Rossijskaya Gazeta: “Icebreakers to the rescue”

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin arrived at the Baltic Shipyard in St Petersburg, one of the nation’s largest. There he spoke with the factory workers about a plan to save their facility and promised to increase wages.

2 december 2011

Komsomolskaya Pravda: "Medvedev and Putin clear up major issues"

President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin held the last election meeting with their supporters.

1 december 2011

Izvestia: "Prime Minister Putin wants to see shared leadership atop Russia’s theaters"

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin proposed clearly dividing the responsibilities between the theaters’ artistic and executive directors.

30 november 2011

Rossiiskaya Gazeta: "Smart investment in Russia"

Vladimir Putin promised to provide favourable conditions for foreign investment.

30 november 2011

Rossiiskaya Gazeta: "What will regions do with 10 billion roubles?"

Vladimir Putin reviews regional plans for state funds.

29 november 2011

RBC Daily: «Popular Home Front»

Popular Front and Open Government to back Putin in presidential elections.

29 november 2011

Izvestia: «Forty million euro to be spent on info security for 2014 Sochi Olympics»

A government investment commission has endorsed the French company Atos.

25 november 2011

Komsomolskaya Pravda: "Putin: Do refrain from “smashing the parliament”"

The prime minister hopes that the ruling party will be at its best during the forthcoming elections.

24 november 2011

“Izvestia”: “Thank you to you all...”

Vladimir Putin addressed the last meeting of the State Duma’s fifth convocation.

22 november 2011

Komsomolskaya Pravda: “Russian citizens will no longer be victims of errors in tax collection”

Tax authorities will have to compete for their business as with the creation of the Common Economic Space companies may prefer registering in Belarus and Kazakhstan.

22 november 2011

Izvestia: "Putin advises Russian filmmakers to stop glorifying violence and vice"

The prime minister asked filmmakers to remember their moral principles.

18 november 2011

Komsomolskaya Pravda: "A pensioners’ Christmas: wool socks for Medvedev and Putin"

The president and the prime minister met with pensioners.

16 november 2011

Kommersant: "No More Restraints on Financing Rural Roads"

Addressing a national forum of the rural intelligentsia, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said that “we must lift the spending restrictions on road funds that are in the process of being created,” and asked the State Duma to “approve legislation for three spending priorities for regional road funds.”

16 november 2011

RBK daily: "The Anti-Crisis Accountant"

Putin works out regional budget.

16 november 2011

Izvestia: "Thirty-five Stolypins for Moscow to Choose From"

The Information Centre of the Moscow Committee for Architecture and Urban Development is presenting a display of the works of the sculptors who are competing for the right to erect a monument to Pyotr Stolypin, Russia’s reforming prime minister of the early 1900s, in front of the Government Building (Russia’s Government House).

15 november 2011

Komsomolskaya Pravda: "A trillion roubles to be spent on increased military salaries"

Vladimir Putin holds a government presidium meeting.

15 november 2011

Izvestia: "Vladimir Putin appoints state defence order monitor"

The prime minister lashed out at his ministers for failed arms supplies contracts.

14 november 2011

Komsomolskaya Pravda: "Vladimir Putin: Sometimes it’s better to act quickly making minor mistakes than not to act at all"

Vladimir Putin met with the Valdai Club's foreign experts to discuss what the future has in store for Russia and Europe.

11 november 2011

Komsomolskaya Pravda: "Vladimir Putin: “It is necessary to make sure that no utility company tries to line its pockets at the public’s expense”

The prime minister demanded at the Government Presidium that the regions be in control of utility rates; he also promised to visit the Olympic site in Sochi

10 november 2011

Izvestia: "Putin finalizes state defence contracts"

Izvestia has learned the details of contracts signed in Severodvinsk in the presence of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

8 november 2011

RBC Daily: "Putin calls for justice"

The SCO summit decides to establish a new world order.

8 november 2011

Izvestia: "Shanghai Cooperation Organisation ready to include Iran"

SCO heads of government invite observer countries to join the club.

7 november 2011

Komsomolskaya Pravda: “The prime minister should not be deceived…”

Igor Fyodorov, governor of the Nenets Autonomous Area, reported to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

7 november 2011

Izvestia: "Ministry knows who to blame for growing utility rates"

The report by the Minister for Economic Development, Elvira Nabiullina, on the reasons behind high electricity rates at a government meeting has given rise to heated debates. The ministry has pinpointed government-chosen suppliers as the cause for inflated utility rates.

3 november 2011

Izvestia: "Putin promises to allocate 1.5 trillion roubles to raise military pensions"

The prime minister prepared an unprecedented increase in welfare benefits for former workers of the Defence Ministry, Interior Ministry, and intelligence services.

31 october 2011

Komsomolskaya Pravda: “Putin selects deputy candidates”

Vladimir Putin handed each candidate the respective authorization documents.

28 october 2011

Izvestia: “E-government comes to provinces”

The government rules to allocate an extra 670 million roubles on online state services.

27 october 2011

Komsomolskaya Pravda: “Vladimir Putin on the coverage of Gaddafi’s death: ‘The man is wounded, and he is being finished off, and they splash this all over the screen’”

Members of the Popular Front complain to the prime minister about negative footage on television.

27 october 2011

Komsomolskaya Pravda: "The prime minister scolds governors"

Yesterday, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin summoned the governors of the Perm Territory and the Kurgan and Saratov regions because new perinatal centres failed to open on schedule.

27 october 2011

Izvestia: "Putin scolds three governors for failure to open perinatal centres on schedule"

As promised, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin chided the governors that failed to open perinatal centres in a timely manner.

27 october 2011

Izvestia: "Popular Front designs new State Duma structure"

The Popular Front proposes to assign a concrete task to every committee.

20 october 2011

Izvestia: "Eurasian Economic Union could start by 2015"

The prime ministers of Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus talk to Izvestia about their efforts to establish a new economic association.

18 october 2011

Komsomolskaya Pravda: "Putin tries to convince foreign business that Russian economy is stable"

On Monday, world business leaders from major corporations gathered at Hotel Baltschug Kempinski in Moscow for the 25th FIAC meeting. Vladimir Putin gave a speech. Putin said foreign direct investment from 2009 to the third quarter of 2011 exceeded $100 billion. “In the first nine months of this year we saw direct investment surge by almost 20%,” Putin noted.

18 october 2011

Izvestia: “Putin prepares Russia for change in leadership”

On October 17, Vladimir Putin was interviewed by Konstantin Ernst, Director General of Television Channel One, Oleg Dobrodeyev, Director General of the National State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company, and Vladimir Kulistikov, Director General of NTV Channel.

17 october 2011

Izvestia: "German documentary about Putin timed to elections"

The German television broadcaster ARD is planning a big documentary about Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

14 october 2011

Komsomolskaya Pravda: “Vladimir Putin: 'It’s the money that should reach students, and not just information about it'”

Vladimir Putin: "It's the money that should reach students, not just information about it!"

14 october 2011

Izvestia: “Utility providers to be purged”

The debt that managing companies have racked has reached 94 billion roubles.

13 october 2011

Komsomolskaya Pravda: “Hu Jintao to Vladimir Putin: ‘You are a great friend of the Chinese people’”

Trade between Russia and China this year is expected to top $70 billion.

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