Prime Minister Vladimir Putin chaired a meeting with top executives of foreign companies
"I am well aware that the predictability and stability of economic policy is vitally important for business, and I would like to emphasise that despite certain political events of some urgent and even critical nature, Russia will not change its economic development model. Our policy will remain unaltered, there will be no closed market or economic mobilisation. We will not take any politically motivated decisions or actions in the economy, and we are trying to make our plans as open and clear as possible."
"We must study everything that concerns the preparation for the Beijing Olympics. Our Chinese partners' best practices are to be meticulously analyzed and taken into consideration. It is also important to follow organisational differences in preparation for the Vancouver and London Olympics."
Nord Stream is a big European project aimed at solving urgent energy problems. I am sure the project will contribute to the development of both Russian and European economies.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin had a conversation with Russian Railways CEO Vladimir Yakunin
The delivery of fuel, the issue of certification and the dividends which the company planned to keep and hand over to the state were discussed during the meeting.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev
"Russia and Bulgaria have strong long-standing ties. In the recent years we have managed to increase the mutual trade volumes by more than 30% last year in the face of many difficulties. According to our current statistics, Russia is the top exporter to Bulgaria and ranks fourth in sales turnover between our countries."
Events for 16 september 2008
"A huge amount of work has been done: hospitals and temporary accommodation for refugees were promptly made available, and delivery of water, food and humanitarian cargoes was organised. People were not discriminated against on the basis of nationality: humanitarian relief was brought, among others, to the inhabitants of the villages located on Georgian territory. By now the situation on the whole has been stabilised, practically all the refugees, with a few exceptions have returned to the Republic; according to our data, about 2,000 people are still to return home."
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with Kyrgyz Prime Minister Igor Chudinov
"The volume of accumulated Russian investment remains small. We hope very much that the President and the Government of Kyrgyzstan will do everything possible in order to provide incentives for Russian capital. Moscow will also promote Russian business operations in the Kyrgyz economy. This is certainly a reserve component of our cooperation."
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliev
"Azerbaijan's foreign policy towards Russia has been stable in the past few years. We believe that all positive changes at the political level are to transfer into economic cooperation. This is particularly important today, when the situation on the world financial markets and the world economy is unstable."
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) Duma deputies
The Government sees its prime duty in providing enough financing for education, health, infrastructure and innovative development. And, of course, for the strengthening of the country’s armed forces and security.
