Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s visit to France

During the second day of the visit to France Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with former French President Jacques Chirac and with author Maurice Druon as well as visited the Museum of His Majesty’s Cossack Regiment of the Guards.

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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s visit to France

During the first day of the visit to France Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin held talks with his French counterpart Francois Fillon and met with French president Nicolas Sarkozy.

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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin held a meeting of the Governmental Commission for Budgetary Projections for the Next Fiscal Year and the Plan Period at the Government House.

"On our agenda today are amendments to the federal budget for the current year 2008 and the plan period 2009-2010, and also amendments to the budgets of the Pension Fund, the social and medical insurance funds. Today we are to put a final seal on the proposed amendments."

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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin chaired the first session of the Government Presidium

The key items on the agenda were the guidelines for the tax policy for 2009-2011 and social security.

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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin spoke at the opening of the Moscow Judo Super World Cup 2008

"Judo means not only good health, strong muscles and having special techniques and skills. Judo is also generosity, tolerance, helping each other and friends. The principles of judo fully correspond to the principles of building a tolerant society."

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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s visit to Belarus

In course of his working trip to Belarus Prime Minister Vladimir Putin took part in a meeting of the Council of the CIS heads of government, met with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and with Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko in Minsk. After the meeting of the Council of the CIS heads of government Vladimir Putin answered the journalists' questions.

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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced an increase in the salaries of Full Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences

"The salaries of Full Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences will be increased to 50,000 roubles."

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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s visit to Krasnodar Territory

During his visit to Krasnodar Territory Vladimir Putin chaired a meeting on transportation development.

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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s visit to Stavropol Territory

In course of his trip to Stavropol Territory Vladimir Putin chaired a meeting on improving the effectiveness of state agricultural policy.

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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin held a meeting with Minister of Transport Igor Levitin

Strategy for Development up to 2030, and particularly its first stage, the programme of transportation development from 2010 to 2015 were discussed at the meeting.

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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with Agriculture Minister Alexei Gordeyev

“I would like you to coordinate all the necessary decisions with the departments concerned and the Finance Ministry. This should be done in order to take system-based measures for supporting agriculture and satisfying the food market’s demand, with due account of the fluctuations in global agricultural markets”.

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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin chaired a Cabinet meeting

"Today, we will consider scenarios and major parameters for the forecast of the country’s social and economic development up to 2011. These indicators will be the basis of our budget planning."

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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s visit to Leningrad Region

During his working visit to Leningrad Region Vladimir Putin chaired a meeting on the creation of a second Baltic pipeline system and visited the survey ground of the Nikita Mikhalkov's film Burnt by the Sun-2 in Shushary village.

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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin unveiled a new Cabinet lineup

"The structure has been updated to cater to economic and social needs of the state administration."

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The State Duma approved Vladimir Putin as Russian Prime Minister

«There is no doubt in my mind that the Government can only be genuinely strong and effective if it can fully rely on the legislative branch».

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President Dmitry Medvedev submitted Vladimir Putin's candidacy for the post of Prime Minister to the State Duma

In accordance with Article 111 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation and Article 7 of the Federal Constitutional Law On the Government of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin’s candidacy was submitted to the State Duma for the post of Prime Minister of the Russian Federation.

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