30 Mo
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s visit to Samara Region
During his trip to Samara Region Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited the AvtoVAZ factory where he talked to the workers and chaired a meeting on implementing measures to stabilise and improve the situation in the Russian automotive industry.
28 Sa
Vladimir Putin had a working meeting with Alexei Kudrin and Igor Sechin
"Today we must review everything that has been done recently. We must see what works and what does not work as we would like it to in order to be able early next week to propose for one of the sector's enterprises, AvtoVAZ, a balanced package of effective measures to support concrete enterprises and the sector as a whole."
27 Fr
“Honouring its social commitments to citizens is a priority for the Government. The question is how to guarantee their implicit implementation."
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26 Th
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin chaired a meeting of the Government Presidium
“We have long been stressing that public property should be used exclusively for the benefit of the entire society and help to tackle national challenges rather than enrich certain individuals or, as we used to say, “a group of comrades”. In this connection we have decided to reduce substantially the number of the so-called Federal Unitary Enterprises, or FGUPs.”
25 We
"To help people who have lost or are about to lose their jobs, we are launching regional employment programmes that are funded by the federal budget by 95%. We believe that regional and local municipal budgets should also contribute to this effort. However, realising that the incomes of the regions will also decline, we have decided to finance these undertakings almost fully. A total of 43.7 billion roubles have been allocated from the federal budget for this purpose."
24 Tu
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin held a meeting on economic issues
“The planned programme for the development of the pension system is our absolute priority. We must start implementing it in 2010, although we are already taking the required measures to create the conditions for its full-scale implementation.”
23 Mo
“Qualitative changes have recently taken place in Russia-Turkmenistan relations, which have acquired a strategic character,” the First Deputy Prime Minister said greeting the participants in the Forum.
20 Fr
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with Dagestan President Mukhu Aliyev
During the meeting, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Dagestan President Mukhu Aliyev discussed the situation in the region its development in the context of the crisis-hit world and Russian economy, and with problems that have been aggravated and are not.
19 Th
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has addressed a meeting of the Russian Government
"The public, the Russian citizens must know what the Government proposes and why. We must reach a consensus on this matter."
18 We
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin held a meeting on the development of production and testing equipment
"In line with the already determined strategy, we should continue to carry out structural reforms of the missile space industry and streamline its technological and experimental base. As a result, we should be able to greatly enhance its effectiveness and bring its management to a much higher level".
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17 Tu
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin held talks with Mongolian Prime Minister Sanjaagiin Bayar
"Our trade turnover has been growing over the past few years. The leaders of our cooperation, our joint companies, are working well. We have good, promising plans in different spheres, and our main objective now is to create the environment for their implementation. Another objective is to diversify our trade and economic relations."
16 Mo
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin chaired a meeting on economic issues
"We need now to take stock of all previous anti-crisis decisions and draw up a comprehensive document to summarise their analysis. The document will comprise previous decisions, whose implementation will go on alongside new plans up to the end of the year."
15 Su
Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin attended the 152nd OPEC Conference in Vienna
Mr Sechin told the meeting that Russia proposed holding an international conference involving OPEC countries, independent oil producers, major oil companies, investors and the expert community in Moscow in the autumn of 2009.
14 Sa
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin congratulated Naina Yeltsin on her birthday
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin congratulated Naina Yeltsin on her birthday
13 Fr
The officials discussed events planned to mark the 150th birth anniversary of Alexander Popov, Russian physicist who invented radio, and measures to encourage domestic production to replace imported IT and telecommunications equipment.
12 Th
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's visit to Kemerovo Region
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, on a working trip to the Siberian Federal District, visited the Polosukhinskaya Mine in the Kemerovo Region and talked to the miners. He also inspected residential housing for miners, chaired a meeting of the Government's Commission for Regional Development as well as inspected the West Siberian Iron & Steel Works and met with Kemerovo Region Governor Aman Tuleyev.
11 We
At the meeting, Mr Putin and Mr Gertsy discussed the work of the state employment service, including the implementation of a programme to stabilise the situation on the labour market.
10 Tu
"As for the prospects of bilateral cooperation, I would like to say that they are not limited to energy or trade and economic relations. It is important to enhance our scientific, cultural and educational ties."
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6 Fr
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s visit to St. Petersburg
During his visit to St Petersburg Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited the Academician Krylov Central Shipbuilding Research Institute.
5 Th
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin chaired a meeting of the Government Presidium
"The key question now is whether the farms will be able to afford buying fertilizer and fuel at these prices. You will recall that we recently abolished export customs duties for mineral fertilizer to support our industry and give our enterprises an extra chance to sell their products in the world markets, and thus sustain production and employment levels at these enterprises."
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4 We
“Under the circumstances, the Government’s task is to support the real economy for minimal lay-offs and to help people who have found themselves in a predicament. We should have enough resources and funds for this (we have recalled that in recent time we have achieved some results. With this aim in view, we have raised unemployment benefits almost to 5,000 roubles, and earmarked additional funds for employment centres.”
3 Tu
"The main strategic goals of modernising higher education have already been determined. We must build a flexible educational system that should meet the demands of society in general and its members in particular. It is important to introduce modern programmes of education and methods of assessing its quality. It is this system that will give young specialists a chance to find a worthy place in the labour market, and will ensure permanent growth of the quality of labour by granting a wide range of services on professional retraining and upgrading of skills".
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2 Mo
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin chaired a meeting on economic issues
"We will discuss proposed amendments to the Budget Code. We need to make certain adjustments to the Budget Code to be able to finance the budget deficit from the Reserve Fund. We’ll also need to establish a procedure for using these reserves. We’ll discuss and take into account the needs of Russia’s constituent regions, change the support schemes, give them more freedom in handling their municipal finances, and authorise regional governments to provide prompt support to municipal budgets".
