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's successor as president seemed like a smooth-talking yes man. That's changing now.
Focused more on domestic political stability than on empire-building, Vladimir Putin may be — for all his faults — a better leader than Russia might otherwise be obliged to endure
WASHINGTON, April 21 (UPI) -- The global recession has severely hammered the world's leading energy producers as oil has fallen from its July 2008 record high of $147.27 per barrel to slightly more than $50 a barrel today. For Russia, the world's second-largest oil producer, the news has not led to a reduction in production, as on April 16 its Energy Ministry issued a statement noting that it does not expect the country's 2009 crude oil output to fall this year from last year's rate of 9.735 million barrels per day.
The global recession has severely hammered the world's leading energy producers as oil has fallen from its July 2008 record high of $147.27 per barrel to slightly more than $50 a barrel today. For Russia, the world's second-largest oil producer, the news has not led to a reduction in production, as on April 16 its Energy Ministry issued a statement noting that it does not expect the country's 2009 crude oil output to fall this year from last year's rate of 9.735 million barrels per day.
A number of leaders around the world are on the ropes right now. That's not necessarily a bad thing.
SOON after taking power in a pro-Western uprising in Georgia, President Mikheil Saakashvili journeyed in February 2004 to Moscow, his country’s former taskmaster, for his first talks with Vladimir V. Putin.
SOON after taking power in a pro-Western uprising in Georgia, President Mikheil Saakashvili journeyed in February 2004 to Moscow, his country's former taskmaster, for his first talks with Vladimir V. Putin.
Russia declared victory yesterday in its war to crush separatists in the rebel republic of Chechnya; a conflict that has cost the lives of an estimated 100,000 people since the region claimed independence in 1991.
Russia declared victory yesterday in its war to crush separatists in the rebel republic of Chechnya; a conflict that has cost the lives of an estimated 100,000 people since the region claimed independence in 1991.
Au sommet du G20 à Londres, la Russie est restée au second plan. Dmitri Medvedev n'a vraiment existé que grâce à son entretien avec Barack Obama le 1er avril, et plus modestement à sa conférence à la London School of Economics, le lendemain. Le président russe aurait pu être plus accrocheur. Mais la Russie n'avait rien à proposer de sérieux au G20 et n'a, pour le moment, pas versé un dollar au plan de relance du Fonds monétaire international (FMI).
