Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin attended a meeting of the Council of Ministers of the Union State

"I am convinced that in order to minimise the negative impact of the world crisis on our economies we need effective joint actions. We should make full use of the benefits of integration, encourage mutual trade and strengthen cooperation in production."

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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's visit to Switzerland

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin held a news conference on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, on January 29, 2009, the second day of his visit to Switzerland, for members of the International Business Council and the International Media Council. He also met with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, Mongolian President Nambariin Enkhbayar, and Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan.

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Prime minister Vladimir Putin's visit to Switzerland

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin arrived in Switzerland to take part in the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos.

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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin held a meeting of the Government Presidium

"Rosagroleasing capital is also increasing by 25 billion roubles, as agreed before. A greater part of the sum will go toward purchasing farm machines and vehicles, as we have intended, thus increasing sales of Russian-manufactured machinery."

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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s visit to Novgorod Region

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin chaired a meeting at fertiliser producer Acron in Veliky Novgorod.

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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov

They discussed stabilisation on the labour market, notably the regional programmes to ease tensions on the labour market presented to the Government, as well as professional training, retraining and advanced training of personnel during these programmes.

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Vladimir Putin held a meeting with Transport Minister Igor Levitin

Mr Putin and Mr Levitin discussed the industry’s performance in 2008, and the agreed position on a state-run transport leasing company. They also talked about jobs in road construction and subsidies for air travel to the Far East.

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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin held a conference on economic issues

“These plans and tasks remain unchanged. The situation in the world economy and finances is not developing well, and this is affecting Russia. However, citizens should have an opportunity to resolve their housing problems, and have the right to rely on the Government’s support regardless of what is happening.”

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Vladimir Putin met with Sergei Stepashin, Chairman of Russia's Audit Chamber

Vladimir Putin and Sergei Stepashin discussed the Audit Chamber’s plans for 2009, particularly the control of disbursement of government funds by major banks and the monitoring of budget allocations for the stabilisation of South Ossetia.

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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin chaired a meeting of the Government Presidium

"Russian economy is part of the global economy, and all the processes taking place in it have a direct effect on us. Therefore, we need to adjust the budget and macroeconomic figures proceeding from the current realities of the world economy and market as regards prices on major commodities."

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Statements by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on the results of their talks

"During the talks it has been agreed that Russia and Ukraine are adopting the European price formula in the trade in natural gas."

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Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Yulia Tymoshenko went to the Kremlin to take part in the Moscow international conference on ensuring Russian gas supplies to European consumers

After a brief meeting at the Russian Government House, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Yulia Tymoshenko went to the Kremlin to take part in the Moscow international conference on ensuring Russian gas supplies to European consumers.

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Visit to Germany

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin arrived in Germany on a working visit. During his visit, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited the largest in Europe agricultural fair, Internationale Gruene Woche (International Green Week), met with top managers of European gas companies and held talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Also Vladimir Putin was awarded the Order of Saxon Gratitude during a ceremony at the State Opera. Than he met with the leadership of the German Council for the Promotion of the Federal Child Haematology, Oncology and Immunology Centre and met with the chief editors of leading German media outlets.

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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s interview with German Television’s Channel One ARD

"The main thing, however, is that Europe and Russia undoubtedly have a common future. We should recognize that natural interdependence, build our relations for the long term on understandable principles, and respect each other's interests. If we do so, all of Greater Europe will be prosperous and competitive in today's complicated world."

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Russian, Bulgarian, Slovak and Moldovan Prime Ministers met at Vladimir Putin's Novo-Ogaryovo residence near Moscow

"We have met the European Commission's proposals halfway and signed a relevant contract on controlling transit. You know it well. We are, however, disappointed about the way it is being carried out, or rather not being carried out by our Ukrainian partners."

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Vladimir Putin visited the Gazprom central production and control department

"We shall do our best to work on in the same absolute transparency for our partners to take full account of what is going on in Russian terminals from which gas is piped to European consumers. Our contacts with the Balkan countries and Central and Western Europe have a huge scope. We shall keep up the same patterns in every direction."

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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin chaired a meeting of the Government Presidium

"The Government points out other opportunities to the public. Persons entitled to grants and soft taxation are welcome to use their benefits, while employers should retain corporate social programmes whenever possible and so not merely help their employees in these lean years but also to invest in the future by creating a basis for post-crisis development."

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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with Education and Science Minister Andrei Fursenko

"We have followed your instructions to make not only long-term forecasts up to 2025, of which I have told before, but also short-term recommendations on R&D priorities for the next two to three years taking into account all related factors and influences. First, Russia should not squander its past educational and scientific achievements. Second, we have highlighted current top priorities to focus efforts on crucial social problems and ensure economic progress within this short time."

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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin held a meeting with Mirek Topolánek, the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, which currently holds the rotating presidency of the European Union

"We feared that bureaucratic difficulties would not allow European agencies to promptly interfere with this issue. However, your prompt reaction to the current developments, and your visits to Kiev and Moscow suggest that we will be able to reach the necessary agreement."

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Vladimir Putin held a meeting with First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov

During the meeting, employment programs in Russia were touched upon.

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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with foreign media

"The most important thing today, one of the key issues, is to ensure the safety of supplies. That is why, realizing that such situations may arise in the future, Russia has long set the task of diversifying supplies of our energy. To this end, we launched the plan to build the North-Western pipeline system under the Baltic Sea and another system under the Black Sea (we tentatively call it the South Stream). For that purpose, we built the Blue Stream pipeline to Turkey on the bottom of the Black Sea."

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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's visit to St.-Petersburg

During the visit Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller and with Gerhard Schroeder, Nord Stream AG Shareholders’ Committee head.

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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin held a meeting with Head of the Federal Customs Service of Russia Andrei Belyaninov and Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller

"I would like to draw your attention to the fact that Gazprom does not supply gas to Ukraine, and consequently, its actions cannot be called smuggling, whichever way you look at it. Gazprom has nothing to do with what is happening in Ukraine. Rather, it is the transit country that is to be blamed."

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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin held a working meeting with Gazprom President Alexei Miller

Mr. Putin and Mr. Miller discussed the situation of the gas delivery to Ukraine and the gas transit through the Ukrainian territory.

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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin skied near the ski complex of the Polyana Hotel in Sochi

The President and the Prime Minister skied together, and later spent a long time talking with other skiers, who wished the President and the Prime Minister a happy New Year and wished them health and happiness.

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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with organisers and participants in the Moscow stage of the FIS Alpine Ski World Cup

"I would like to wish you a happy New Year, and luck and success in the competition. I want to thank all the athletes, coaches and organisers of the event for your decision to hold the Alpine Ski Cup in Moscow. It is a great New Year's gift for all lovers of alpine skiing and of all winter sports. This will promote alpine skiing both in the world and here, in Russia."

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