Prime Minister Vladimir Putin meets with Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin and deputy chairmen of Gazprom Management Committee Alexander Medvedev and Andrei Kruglov

The performance of the energy industry during the winter period was discussed, as well as some issues related to natural gas supplies to European countries. The Prime Minister issued instructions to exert maximum efforts to satisfy foreign partners' demand while the top priority of the energy industry in general and Gazprom in particular is to meet demand inside the Russian Federation.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on a working visit to the Chelyabinsk Region arrived in the town of Roza, where he inspected a flat in a dilapidated residential building and visited the Korkinsky Open Pit Mine

Vladimir Putin holds a meeting on problems facing residents of Roza and Korkino in the Chelyabinsk Region

“There are obvious problems here: there are hazardous living conditions in the area. But should people live in these conditions? There are cracks in the walls that open up onto the street…”

While on a visit to Perm, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin attended a match between Russian Amateur Ice Hockey League teams and talked with the League leaders and players

“Over the last four years we have built 300 indoor ice rinks across the country. That is about as many as were built during the Soviet period. But that is obviously not enough. Part of the reason is that more and more people are playing sports.”

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin meets with members of the business community in Perm

The Prime Minister said that the Perm Region economy was a cross-section of the whole Russian economy.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting of the supervisory board of the Strategic Initiatives Agency

“A great deal will depend on how our agencies, their chief executives and other top and middle-level managers carry out our instructions. (…) In this regard I would like to say that we also intend to introduce special mechanisms for evaluating the work of government institutions.”

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin holds a meeting with Viktor Khristenko and Denis Manturov

The participants in the meeting discussed Viktor Khristenko’s appointment as Chairman of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission, prospects for further integration in the post-soviet space, and the Ministry of Industry and Trade promotion of Denis Manturov, whom the prime minister asked to carry on as the acting minister.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin attends the Russia 2012 investment forum

“All reforms should be based on people and their inner desire to improve our country. This was the case in the 2000s when we brought Russia together, and I’m sure this will happen again today at this whole new level of our development. I’m confident that the energy of a civil society, primarily of its creative class, will become the main driving force behind Russia’s future prosperity.”