«В прошлом году в России произведено более 1 трлн кВт∙ч электроэнергии. Это на 4,3% больше, чем годом ранее, практически мы достигли докризисного уровня. Ввод новых мощностей в прошлом году составил 3,2 ГВт, это самый большой объём ввода мощности за последние 10 лет. Но на этом мы не останавливаемся, пойдём дальше». В.В.Путин В ходе запуска в эксплуатацию новых мощностей на Сургутской ГРЭС-2 и Среднеуральской ГРЭС Вступительное слово В.В.Путина: Добрый день, здравствуйте, уважаемые коллеги! У нас сегодня приятное событие. На связи две точки – в Сургуте и на Урале...
Министр транспорта доложил В.В.Путину о завершении операции по подъёму теплохода «Булгария», а также выплатах компенсаций родственникам погибших. Кроме того, И.Е.Левитин ознакомил Премьера с предложениями Минтранса, направленными на повышение уровня безопасности и технического контроля на речном судоходстве. Стенограмма начала встречи: В.В.Путин: Игорь Евгеньевич, два вопроса. Первый – как идёт работа по подъёму «Булгарии»? Второе – я просил вас оперативно подготовить предложения по совершенствованию нормативно-правовой базы работы на транспорте, с тем чтобы минимизировать угрозу для пассажиров. Пожалуйста, начнём с первого....
Глава Минтранса Игорь Левитин в понедельник представил премьер-министру РФ Владимиру Путину предложения, подготовленные ведомством в связи с катастрофой теплохода "Булгария", которая унесла жизни 122 человек. Среди этих инициатив - введение обязательного требования по наличию системы страхования на внутренних водных путях, уведомительный характер для внеплановых проверок юрлиц и индивидуальных предпринимателей в сфере транспорта, введение государственного портового контроля...
Россиянка Юлия Путинцева стала победительницей турнира Международной теннисной федерации (ITF) в Самсуне (Турция), призовой фонд которого составляет 25 тысяч долларов. В финале соревнований Путинцева в двух партиях разобралась со второй ракеткой турнира полькой Мартой Домаховской - 7:6 (8:6), 6:2.
Обсуждались итоги полугодия в сельском хозяйстве, а также ход уборочной кампании. Особое внимание было уделено вопросу поддержки различных направлений сельскохозяйственной деятельности, экономически важных для того или другого региона, в частности мелиорации, овцеводства, первичной переработки молока для малых ферм, садоводов. Стенограмма начала встречи: В.В.Путин: Как у нас сейчас ситуация с уборкой? Е.Б.Скрынник: Владимир Владимирович, мы полгода отработали, и по общим показателям в рамках государственной программы у нас идёт положительный тренд развития: плюс 0,7% по всему сельскому хозяйству. Отмечается прирост валовой продукции сельского хозяйства....
Премьер-министр России Владимир Путин направил премьеру Норвегии Йенсу Столтенбергу телеграмму соболезнования в связи с постигшей страну трагедией, сообщает пресс-служба правительства РФ. В пятницу вечером в центре Осло произошел взрыв: погибли семь человек, около 20 были ранены. Через несколько часов мужчина в полицейской форме открыл стрельбу в молодежном лагере на острове близ норвежской столицы. Жертвами стали 84 человека. "Примите самые глубокие соболезнования в связи с варварскими преступлениями в Осло и на острове Утойа, которые привели к столь многочисленным человеческим жертвам. Этим бессмысленным актам насилия не может быть никакого оправдания. Мы искренне скорбим и сопереживаем с дружественным норвежским народом, готовы предоставить вам всю необходимую помощь и содействие. В этот трагический час прошу Вас передать слова сочувствия и поддержки родным и близким погибших, пожелания скорейшего выздоровления раненым и пострадавшим", - говорится в телеграмме российского премьера....
Как отметил Премьер, малоэтажное строительство – это один из приоритетов Правительства Российской Федерации, имеющий самую серьёзную поддержку, прежде всего финансовую. Вступительное слово В.В.Путина: Добрый день, уважаемые коллеги! Мы с вами не первый раз обращаемся к проблемам строительного комплекса. Сегодня поговорим о малоэтажном строительстве. Это, безусловно, весьма перспективная форма решения задачи обеспечения граждан доступным, удобным, экологичным жильём. Мы ещё посмотрим – а я уверен, вы уже смогли здесь, в Ступине, ознакомиться, как работа организована, – но в принципе знаю, что здесь один из хороших примеров организации работы по этому направлению. Да и вообще, это один из приоритетов Правительства Российской Федерации, имеющий самую серьёзную поддержку, имею в виду прежде всего финансовую поддержку. Только на стимулирование программ жилищного строительства субъектов Российской Федерации в ближайшие пять лет будет направлено где-то порядка 25 млрд рублей из федерального бюджета...
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (Russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Пу́тин, born 7 October 1952) served as the second President of the Russian Federation and is the current Prime Minister of Russia, as well as chairman of United Russia and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Union of Russia and Belarus. He became acting President on 31 December 1999, when president Boris Yeltsin resigned in a surprising move. Putin won the 2000 presidential election and in 2004 he was re-elected for a second term lasting until 7 May 2008.
Due to constitutionally mandated term limits, Putin was ineligible to run for a third consecutive presidential term. After the victory of his successor, Dmitry Medvedev, in the 2008 presidential elections, he was nominated by the latter to be Russia's Prime Minister; Putin took the post on 8 May 2008.
Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing the rule of law. During his eight years in office, due to strong macroeconomic management, important fiscal policy reforms, and a confluence of high oil prices, surging capital inflows, and access to low-cost external financing, Russia's economy bounced back from crisis, seeing GDP increase by 72% in PPP (sixfold in nominal), poverty cut more than half, and average monthly salaries increase from $80 to $640, or by 150% in real rates. Analysts have described Putin's economic reforms as impressive.
Putin was born on 7 October 1952 in Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR (now Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation), to parents Vladimir Spiridonovich Putin (1911–1999) and Maria Ivanovna Shelomova (1911–1998). His mother was a factory worker, and his father was a conscript in the Soviet Navy, where he served in the submarine fleet in the early 1930s, subsequently serving with the NKVD in a sabotage group during World War II. Two elder brothers were born in the mid–1930s; one died within a few months of birth, while the second succumbed to diphtheria during the siege of Leningrad. His paternal grandfather, Spiridon Ivanovich Putin (1879–1965), was employed at Vladimir Lenin's dacha at Gorki as a cook, and after Lenin's death in 1924, he continued to work for Lenin's wife, Nadezhda Krupskaya. He would later cook for Joseph Stalin when the Soviet leader visited one of his dachas in the Moscow region. Spiridon later was employed at a dacha belonging to the Moscow City Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, at which the young Putin would visit him.
Putin joined the KGB in 1975 upon graduation from university, and underwent a year's training at the 401st KGB school in Okhta, Leningrad. He then went on to work briefly in the Second Department (counter-intelligence) before he was transferred to the First Department, where among his duties was the monitoring of foreigners and consular officials in Leningrad, while using the cover of being a police officer with the CID. According to Yuri Felshtinsky and Vladimir Pribylovsky, he served at the Fifth Directorate of the KGB, which combated political dissent in the Soviet Union. He then received an offer to transfer to foreign intelligence First Chief Directorate of the KGB and was sent for additional year long training to the Dzerzhinsky KGB Higher School in Moscow and then in the early eighties—the Red Banner Yuri Andropov KGB Institute in Moscow (now the Academy of Foreign Intelligence).
From 1985 to 1990 the KGB stationed Putin in Dresden, East Germany. Following the collapse of the East German regime, Putin was recalled to the Soviet Union and returned to Leningrad, where in June 1991 he assumed a position with the International Affairs section of Leningrad State University, reporting to Vice-Rector Yuriy Molchanov. In his new position, Putin maintained surveillance on the student body and kept an eye out for recruits. It was during his stint at the university that Putin grew reacquainted with Anatoly Sobchak, then mayor of Leningrad. Sobchak served as an Assistant Professor during Putin's university years and was one of Putin's lecturers. Putin resigned from the active state security services in the beginning of 1992, after the defeat of the KGB-supported abortive putsch against Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev.
In May 1990, Putin was appointed Mayor Sobchak's advisor on international affairs. On 28 June 1991, he was appointed head of the Committee for External Relations of the Saint Petersburg Mayor's Office, with responsibility for promoting international relations and foreign investments. The Committee was also used to register business ventures in Saint Petersburg. Less than one year after taking control of the committee, Putin was investigated by a commission of the city legislative council. Commission deputies Marina Salye and Yury Gladkov concluded that Putin understated prices and issued licenses permitting the export of non-ferrous metals valued at a total of $93 million in exchange for food aid from abroad that never came to the city. The commission recommended Putin be fired, but there were no immediate consequences. Putin remained head of the Committee for External Relations until 1996.
From 1994 to 1997, Putin was appointed to additional positions in the Saint Petersburg political arena. In March 1994 he became first deputy head of the administration of the city of Saint Petersburg. In 1995 (through June 1997) Putin led the Saint Petersburg branch of the pro-government Our Home Is Russia political party. During this same period from 1995 through June 1997 he was also the head of the Advisory Board of the JSC Newspaper Sankt-Peterburgskie Vedomosti.
In 1996, Anatoly Sobchak lost the Saint Petersburg mayoral election to Vladimir Yakovlev. Putin was called to Moscow and in June 1996 assumed position of a Deputy Chief of the Presidential Property Management Department headed by Pavel Borodin. He occupied this position until March 1997. During his tenure Putin was responsible for the foreign property of the state and organized transfer of the former assets of the Soviet Union and Communist Party to the Russian Federation.
On 26 March 1997 President Boris Yeltsin appointed Putin deputy chief of Presidential Staff, which he remained until May 1998, and chief of the Main Control Directorate of the Presidential Property Management Department (until June 1998). His predecessor on this position was Alexei Kudrin and the successor was Nikolai Patrushev both future prominent politicians and Putin's associates.
On 9 August 1999, Vladimir Putin was appointed one of three First Deputy Prime Ministers, which enabled him later on that day, as the previous government led by Sergei Stepashin had been sacked, to be appointed acting Prime Minister of the Government of the Russian Federation by President Boris Yeltsin.[59] Yeltsin also announced that he wanted to see Putin as his successor. Later, that same day, Putin agreed to run for the presidency.[60] On 16 August, the State Duma approved his appointment as Prime Minister with 233 votes in favour (vs. 84 against, 17 abstained), while a simple majority of 226 was required, making him Russia's fifth PM in fewer than eighteen months. On his appointment, few expected Putin, virtually unknown to the general public, to last any longer than his predecessors. He was initially regarded as a Yeltsin loyalist; like other prime ministers of Boris Yeltsin, Putin did not choose ministers himself, his cabinet being determined by the presidential administration. Yeltsin's main opponents and would-be successors, Moscow Mayor Yuriy Luzhkov and former Chairman of the Russian Government Yevgeniy Primakov, were already campaigning to replace the ailing president, and they fought hard to prevent Putin's emergence as a potential successor. Putin's law-and-order image and his unrelenting approach to the renewed crisis in Chechnya soon combined to raise his popularity and allowed him to overtake all rivals.
On 14 March 2004, Putin was re-elected to the presidency for a second term, receiving 71% of the vote.
By the beginning of Putin's second term he had been accused of undermining independent sources of political power in Russia, decreasing the degree of pluralism in the Russian society.One of Putin's favorite sports is the martial art of judo. Putin began training in sambo (a martial art that originated in the Soviet Union) at the age of 14, before switching to judo, which he continues to practice today.[288] Putin won competitions in his hometown of Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg), including the senior championship of Leningrad. He is the President of the Yawara Dojo, the same Saint Petersburg dojo he practiced at when young. Putin co-authored a book on his favorite sport, published in Russian as Judo with Vladimir Putin and in English under the title Judo: History, Theory, Practice.
