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
His coming weekend marks the 10th anniversary of Vladimir Putin»s assumption of a leadership position at the Kremlin. Much has happened since Putin»s appointment as first vice prime minister in August 1999, but Russia»s most definitive evolution was from the unstable but semidemocratic days of the 1990s to the statist, authoritarian structure of today.
Putin strives to further increase Russia’s soft power in the Crimea, but Moscow should avoid discouraging disloyalty among Ukrainians as any violent outburst of instability would be detrimental to all sides, Simon Saradzhyan comments for ISN Security Watch.
President Barack Obama appealed to the Russian people on Tuesday to join the United States in overcoming past differences and building a prosperous democratic future free of corruption and the threat of nuclear war.
AP transcript of an interview with President Barack Obama on Thursday.
Relations between Israel and Russia have grown tense over a significant change in Moscow's attitude regarding the possible sale of S-300 air defense missiles to Iran. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and asked him to prevent the arms deal from going through.
«Nous avons évité le pire.» Devant un parterre d'investisseurs étrangers et de patrons des géants pétroliers réuni à Saint-Pétersbourg pour le «Davos russe», le président Dmitri Medvedev a donné, ce vendredi, une prudente note d'optimisme. Brutalement fauchée par la crise, la Russie devrait voir son PIB reculer de 6,5 % en 2009 selon les dernières prévisions du Fonds monétaire international (FMI). Ce sera un peu mieux, a assuré ce vendredi Arkadi Dvorkovitch, le jeune (37 ans) conseiller économique du président russe, formé aux États-Unis. Les incendies menacent toutefois dans l'immense maison Russie. Et jeudi, veille de l'ouverture du Forum économique de Saint-Pétersbourg, Vladimir Poutine a joué les pompiers.
Ever since the January Ukrainian-Russian gas agreements reached by Ukrainian Premier Yulia Tymoshenko and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Moscow one-on-one, a second chapter fall-out of the European gas crisis has been imminent.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, already known for numerous exploits, weighs in with a magazine piece on management techniques. It has Russians wondering what he's up to.
Alongside the Gakushi Kaikan building in Tokyo's Kanda district, where the University of Tokyo's predecessor Kaisei Gakko once stood, is a monument to "the birthplace of the University of Tokyo." At the beginning of the Meiji period, students there keenly participated in western sports including cricket, boating events and baseball, and another monument states that the area is "the birthplace of Japanese baseball."
