Prime Minister Vladimir Putin conducted a meeting of the State Border Commission
“We expect to launch a common foreign trade control system, validate the Union Customs Code, finalize the shifting of the checkpoints to the outer border of Belarus and significantly simplify the procedure on the Russian-Kazakh border between January 1 and July 1, 2010.`”
“The required level of APG utilization should be no less than 95% by 2012. Oil producers that do not fulfill this requirement and continue to burn it off in flares will have to pay huge fines for excessive air pollution.”
Events for 9 november 2009
Vladimir Putin held a meeting of the Foreign Investment Advisory Council
“New Russia had to start building a market economy and creating modern legal institutions practically from scratch, in very difficult conditions. Our partners – foreign companies which invested in Russia – did not find it easy, either. Nevertheless, I am confident that the majority of our foreign partners did not regret their choice. This is demonstrated by numerous successful projects in the Russian economy.”
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with Siemens CEO Peter Loescher
“What is important is not only that this is a high technology sector, because the power industry is a highly important sector in general. What is important is that special long-term relations are developing between your company and Russia’s Rosatom. In fact, these are relations of strategic partnership.”
Events for 8 november 2009
Vladimir Putin gave an interview for NTV Television’s documentary “The Wall”
"Human history has known many barrier and division lines and structures. One of the most famous is the Great Wall of China. I think that it is the only man-made structure visible from space. But why is it still standing after hundreds of years? Because it protected a nation, while the Berlin Wall divided one. That, of course, was its unnatural aspect. It was clear to me that in the modern world, it is impossible to confine a nation and have it remain confined."
