Topic: Vladimir Putin
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Vladimir Putin has an answer for Russians worried that his return to the presidency next year will usher in an era of stagnation: study the careers of Franklin D. Roosevelt or Charles de Gaulle.Putin could be president until 2024 ...
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Tuesday pledged the state's role in the economy would decrease in the coming years, as he laid out ambitious targets for post-crisis Russia.One year after the global financial crisis raised the spectre of the state retaking ...
WHY THE WORLD SHOULDN'T BAIL OUT PUTIN Last June, when Russian Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin was invited to open this year's World Economic Forum confab of business and political leaders in Davos, he surely expected to be speaking from a position ...
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Monday called for Russia to develop its own debt ratings agencies, saying Russian business was too dependent on the opinions of international ratings firms.Less than a week after Fitch bacame the latest agency to slap a downgrade ...
At Davos, Bill Clinton jokes about Putin's market enthusiasm, urges support for Obama planFormer U.S. President Bill Clinton must have thought he'd heard it all.But in a new era of billion-dollar bailouts, state control of the economy and bank nationalization, he discovered ...
Confidence among the world's top company chiefs meeting in Davos has tumbled to a new low and a brewing currency row between the United States and China cast doubt on the political will to act in concert. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and ...
Russian president criticizes Cabinet for moving too slowly to prop up economyRussian President Dmitry Medvedev on Sunday issued a veiled criticism of his predecessor and mentor Vladimir Putin, saying the Cabinet has dragged its feet in implementing anti-crisis measures.Medvedev said the Cabinet's ...
Russia's economy suffered from a " negative dynamic" in the fourth quarter due to the global economic crisis but growth in 2008 will still be six percent, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Monday.With the downturn already causing lay-offs and unpaid wages, Putin ...
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin told employers on Saturday not to cut jobs unnecessarily as unemployment soars due to the economic downturn. fire people without extreme need,' state news agency RIA Novosti quoted Putin as telling a meeting with ministers. Putin, who ...
Russian leaders blamed the US financial system's irresponsibility for the world economic crisis and said it should top the next American president's agenda, as Washington struggled to calm markets Wednesday. "Whoever is elected president, the number one goal will be to shed ...
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