Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with Russian Railways CEO Vladimir Yakunin
Mr Putin and Mr Yakunin discussed the consequences of the global financial crisis and its effect on the company’s work.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin held a meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak
They discussed regional projects to prevent layoffs, as well as the construction of facilities for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin held a meeting on economic issues
"Our revenues will be smaller than our expenses. In other words, we'll have budget deficit. We will have to finance budget deficit by borrowing at home and from the Reserve Fund. The fund has 4.8 trillion roubles. This is enough to balance out the budget in this and subsequent years."
The Deputy Prime Minister said that in accordance with the federal law On Navigation Activities signed last week, “transport, technical means and systems, including weapons, military and specialised technology are to be fitted with navigation equipment whose functioning is supported by Russian navigation systems as of January 1, 2011.”
Events for 16 february 2009
"The Government must provide timely and regular funding for all defence industry companies with the help of available financial instruments which have been used in the past, are being used today and must continue to be used in the future."
Events for 13 february 2009
"We are closely following EP debates on Russia's problems, on all aspects of our cooperation, both in the economy and in culture. Our views do not always coincide, but I'm absolutely convinced that we should expand our contacts to understand each other better."
Vladimir Putin met with Turkish President Abdullah Gul
"Our bilateral trade is developing well. Last year, we reached another high level of $32 billion. Russia has become Turkey's first trading partner. Turkey is also one of the leaders in trade with Russia. We have many shared interests and are at work on many joint problems. We are very happy about this because relations with Turkey are our foreign policy priority."
In his opening remarks Mr Zubkov said that according to the concept, Russia was expected to make fish products to account for 85% of the domestic market by 2020, up from the current 67%.
