Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, on a visit to the Kemerovo Region, chairing a meeting of the Government’s Commission for Regional Development

Mr Putin inspected the oxygen-converter workshop of the West Siberian Iron & Steel Works

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin inspected residential housing for miners, who talked to him in Novokuznetsk, at their invitation

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, on a working trip to the Siberian Federal District, visited the Polosukhinskaya Mine in the Kemerovo Region

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin talks with miners of the Polosukhinskaya Mine in Novokuznetsk

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin during a meeting with Director of the Federal Service for Labour and Employment Yury Gertsy