Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with Igor Artemyev, head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service

The directions of the strengthening of the legal base in struggle against cartels were discussed during the meeting.

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In the course of a working trip to the town of Elektrostal Prime Minister Vladimir Putin chaired a conference on the problems of development of the atomic industry

"In the mid-term we shall have to switch over to a new technology level. I mean a closed fuel cycle and commercial fast neutron reactor development. The Targeted Programme Atomic Energy Technologies of the New Generation must meet this challenge. The development of the Programme should be accomplished by November. One of the main demands facing the industry is the observance of safety measures."

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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin chaired a meeting of the Government Presidium

"We have several items to discuss. One of the key items is the production of strategic materials for weapons, military and specialised hardware. We are talking about the production of composite materials, alloy additives, lubricants and special materials. They are indispensable in creating new-generation equipment, in making it competitive, effective and reliable."

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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s visit to Nizhny Novgorod Region

During his working trip to Nizhny Novgorod Region Vladimir Putin conducted a meeting on measures to develop ferrous metallurgy and provide metal products for the domestic market, visited the foundry and rolling facility under construction at the United Metallurgical Company and the Vyksa Metallurgical Plant, handed over to the Nativity (Stroganov) Church the icon "Resurrection-Descent into Hell", held a meeting with Governor of the Nizhny Novgorod Region Vladimir Shantsev, met with visitors of the first public reception office of United Russia and visited a new production complex of GAZ Group.

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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin chaired a meeting on providing better social services for certain groups of population

"We must look for new and more effective ways of providing social services for our citizens. The most important thing is not to cut the existing level of social support."

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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez

"Lately, we have been strengthening the legislative base for our cooperation, searching for new ways to diversify our relations [between Russia and Venezuela], to find new areas for collaboration, such as transportation, aerospace, science-intensive production, and of course, military-technical cooperation. You know that Russia is a reliable partner in this respect. We hope to develop cooperation in all these areas, including humanitarian aspect."

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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin chaired a meeting of the Government Presidium

"According to the data of the Regional Development Ministry on the whole preparation for the winter is going ahead normally, indeed, ahead of the schedule of last year. <...>In the first place we must pay attention to the energy systems where the risk of interrupted supply is highest. We have many such regions."

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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Deputy Speaker of the State Duma and leader of the Liberal-Democratic Party

"As to housing matters, yesterday I had a meeting with colleagues and gave an instruction: by September 15 they will have introduced proposals about what we can do together with the regions to develop housing infrastructure at a better rate."

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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin chaired a meeting on the Draft Long-Term Strategy for Large-Scale Housing Construction

"Our task is to form the prerequisites for moving on to a qualitatively new phase in housing development. I have said that only 18% of our citizens can afford to pay for their housing themselves. We must bring that figure to at least 60%, so that 60% of our citizens could solve their housing problems, given certain government instruments, independently."

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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met the leaders of the Federation Council

"We propose to make a list of priorities and use it to extend larger subsidies to regional budgets. The regions will have more freedom to choose how to use that funding so that Moscow officials do not tell the Governors the heads of regions how they should spend the money."

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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s visit to Rostov Region

In course of his working visit to Rostov Region Vladimir Putin chaired a meeting devoted to the provision of water resources and improving efficiency in water use, developing domestic waterways and the construction of river and canal vessels, had a meeting with Rostov Region Governor Vladimir Chub and visited the Kochetovsky waterworks facility.

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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin chaired a Cabinet meeting

"The ideology of government control must be changed fundamentally. Routine checks must not be held more frequently than once a year. And for the most part these should be documentary checks without on-site inspections."

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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s visit to Arkhangelsk Region

In course of his working trip to Arkhangelsk Region chaired a meeting on the development of the oil and gas sector of the Russian Federation, met with the Governor of the Arkhangelsk Region Ilya Mikhalchuk and visited the production entity Sevmash in the city of Severodvinsk.

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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko

The priority directions of the work of the Energy Ministry were discussed during the meeting.

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Vladimir Putin had a meeting with Minister of Industry and Trade Viktor Khristenko

The steps taken after the meeting on gas turbine engine-building development in Russia were discussed during the meeting. Particularly a whole plan of action has been worked out and its realization has begun.

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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin had a working meeting with Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller

The work of Gazprom in the domestic market and on export commitments were discussed during the meeting.

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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin chaired a Cabinet meeting

"We have to make a decision on the preparation of several international agreements for ratification. First and foremost, Russian experts in the United Nations were directly involved in drafting the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which has been opened for signing."

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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with Minister of Sport, Tourism and Youth Policy, Vitaly Mutko

"The development of children's and youth fitness and sports is our main duty for today. We have determined to fully reinstate and modernise children's and youth sport schools. This is one of the essential fields of work."

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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 the environmental aspects of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi and met with Jean-Claude Killy, chairman of the IOC Coordination Commission for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games.

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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with Andrei Krainy, Head of the Federal Fisheries Committee

A number of new laws related to the fishery was discussed during the meeting.

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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with Regional Development Minister Dmitry Kozak

The preparations for the APEC summit that will take place in Vladivostok in 2012 were discussed during the meeting.

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