Prime Minister Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting of the Government Presidium
“Today’s Presidium meeting agenda includes issues concerned with developing cooperation with Belarus and the advance of all our integration processes,” the prime minister noted. The number one issue, according to him, is Russian energy supplies to Belarus.
“We are proud that Russia has been part of the Olympic movement practically from the very beginning. We share and support the philosophy of the Olympic movement, the fundamental values and ideas set forth by baron de Coubertin. Talent and hard work, the spirit of friendship and solidarity, fair competition and the champion’s grace and nobility – these are values common to each nation, qualities that unite all humanity.”
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“The government agencies and the United Russia parliamentary party in the State Duma certainly wanted the best for the people. I don’t think that they have achieved the best results in all of their undertakings, but their efforts can be assessed on the whole as satisfactory.”
