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.”
He said that “the programme suggests specific measures to support specific branches of Russia’s industrial potential”.
Events for 23 march 2009
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin attended a meeting of the Presidential Council of Physical Fitness and Sports, Sports Records, and Preparations for the 2014 Winter Olympics and Paralympics in Sochi.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin addressed a news conference
"The European Commission is paying ever greater attention to energy transport-in particular, natural gas piping via Ukraine. That is good, as is the attempt to put the gas transport operator under the control of international legal norms and regulations. I think we should, and can, support it."
"We'll try to closely monitor the implementation of all our agreements. If some investors believe that they are unable to honour their commitments, they had better say so in time."
“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.
Events for 20 march 2009
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.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov
During the meeting Mr. Putin and Mr. Kadyrov discussed the social and economic situation in the region, in part, the labour market and the efforts to eliminate the consequences of the earthquake in the republic.
Mr Zhukov said the social package was a high-priority aspect of the anti-crisis programme, and that the state was implementing unprecedented measures in order to support the population at this time of recession.
“We should proceed from the assumption that the Government intends to implement its anti-crisis package, which was generally approved at its meeting the day before, in the crisis conditions,” the First Deputy Prime Minister said.
