Vladimir Putin held a meeting with First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov
During the meeting, employment programs in Russia were touched upon.
Events for 8 january 2009
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."
Events for 7 january 2009
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.
Vladimir Putin attended Christmas Mass at the Purification of Virgin Mary Church in Petrozavodsk
Afterwards, the Prime Minister talked to the church goers and wished them a merry Christmas.
