Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s visit to St. Petersburg
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin paid a two-day visit to St Petersburg. On the first day of his visit, Mr Putin addressed a plenary meeting of the International Conference on International Humanitarian Law. During the conference, he met with Dr Jakob Kellenberger, the President of the International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC). Mr Putin also visited an exhibition devoted to the aftermath of Georgia’s attack on South Ossetia in August 2008. On November 25, the Prime Minister visited the Torfyanovka international motor vehicle checkpoint on the Russian-Finnish border in the Leningrad Region and chaired a meeting of the State Border Commission. Later Mr Putin visited the Vyborg Shipyard and met with St Petersburg Governor Valentina Matviyenko and Leningrad Region Governor Valery Serdyukov.
At the meeting the draft state defence order for 2009 and for the planning period of 2010 and 2011, as well as proposed budget allocations for the operation of Russia’s military organisation until 2020, were brought under discussion.
Events for 21 november 2008
Mr Putin and Ms Golikova discussed adoption of a new salary payment system.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak
The meeting discussed preparations for the 2014 Olympics in Sochi.
During the conference Mr Zubkov gave the Transport Ministry and the Agriculture Ministry one week to develop and submit proposals to the Government on moving grain surpluses from the Central District to other regions.
“None of the planned sites is being abandoned,” Mr Kozak said. At the same time he said that the Government will be reviewing the estimated construction cost of the projects due to the reduction in prices for construction and raw materials.
