Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with his Norwegian counterpart Jens Stoltenberg
"What matters most is that our relations are developing well. This applies to all aspects of our cooperation. The most objective indicator is the growth of trade, which set a record last year."
"Today, it is important to adapt our cooperation to the current financial and economic crisis. Apparently, we have definite and considerable competitive advantages."
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with Ryazan Regional Governor Oleg Kovalev
They discussed employment and farm work in the region, and the construction of perinatal and cardiology centres.
“Prime Ministers of the CIS countries are due to meet this week. I would like to talk to you today about the basic fields of partnership in the Commonwealth, and discuss matters of our common concern—mainly social and economic partnership.”
“We are planning to combine analogue and digital television at first, so as to make the switch as easy as possible for the population.” He said the stages of the switch have already been worked out, and that it would start in the country’s Far Eastern regions.
Events for 18 may 2009
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin held a meeting of the Government Presidium
“The main task for the next four years is to make the space industry useful to the Russian consumers, and speed up the buildup of a national group of satellites to enhance the reliability and technical level of communications, radio and television broadcasting, monitoring of the Earth’s surface, and weather forecasting.”
