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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (L) talks with Chinese President Hu Jintao (R) at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing October 14, 2009. View Photo »
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (L) talks with Chinese President Hu Jintao (R) at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing October 14, 2009. View Photo »
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (L) talks with Chinese President Hu Jintao (not pictured) at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing October 14, 2009. View Photo »
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (L) shakes hands with Chinese President Hu Jintao at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing October 14, 2009. View Photo »
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (L) shakes hands with Chinese President Hu Jintao at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing October 14, 2009. View Photo »
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (L) attends talks with Chinese President Hu Jintao at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing October 14, 2009. View Photo »
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (L) attends talks with Chinese President Hu Jintao at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing October 14, 2009. View Photo »
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (L) and Wu Bangguo, Chairman of China's National People's Congress attend talks at the Great Hall of the People, in Beijing October 14, 2009. View Photo »
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (L) and Wu Bangguo, Chairman of China's National People's Congress attend talks at the Great Hall of the People, in Beijing October 14, 2009. View Photo »
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (L) and Wu Bangguo, Chairman of China's National People's Congress shake hands at the Great Hall of the People prior to their talks, in Beijing October 14, 2009. View Photo »
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (L) and Wu Bangguo, Chairman of China's National People's Congress shake hands at the Great Hall of the People prior to their talks, in Beijing October 14, 2009. View Photo »
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (2nd L) and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (R) attend a signing ceremony of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing October 14, 2009. View Photo »
Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (C) arrives at Beijing airport October 12, 2009, for his three-day visit to China. View Photo »
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (C) smiles as the head of the Italian carmaker Fiat Sergio Marchionne (L) and the head of state of industrial corporation Sergei Chemezov shake hands while exchanging documents during their meeting in Moscow October... View Photo »
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (R) and the head of the Italian carmaker Fiat Sergio Marchionne meet for talks in Moscow October 8, 2009. View Photo »
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (R) and the head of the Italian carmaker Fiat Sergio Marchionne meet for talks in Moscow October 8, 2009. View Photo »
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, center, chairs a meeting with government officials in Moscow, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009. View Photo »
Vehicles travel past the portrait of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, seen on his party United Russia's campaign poster promoting the upcoming regional elections, in Moscow, October 8, 2009. View Photo »
Vehicles travel past the portrait of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, seen on his party United Russia's campaign poster promoting the upcoming regional elections, in Moscow, October 8, 2009. View Photo »
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (L) and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev meet in Moscow, October 7, 2009. View Photo »
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (Russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Пу́тин?·i Russian pronunciation: [vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr vlɐˈdʲimʲɪrəvʲɪt͡ɕ ˈputʲɪn]; born 7 October 1952 in Leningrad, USSR; now Saint Petersburg, Russia) was the second President of Russia and is the current Prime Minister of Russia as well as chairman of United Russia and Chairman of the Cou... Full Article
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (L) talks with Chinese President Hu Jintao (R) at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing October 14, 2009.
View Photo »Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (L) talks with Chinese President Hu Jintao (R) at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing October 14, 2009.
View Photo »Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (L) talks with Chinese President Hu Jintao (not pictured) at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing October 14, 2009.
View Photo »Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (L) shakes hands with Chinese President Hu Jintao at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing October 14, 2009.
View Photo »Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (L) shakes hands with Chinese President Hu Jintao at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing October 14, 2009.
View Photo »Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (L) attends talks with Chinese President Hu Jintao at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing October 14, 2009.
View Photo »Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (L) attends talks with Chinese President Hu Jintao at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing October 14, 2009.
View Photo »Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (L) and Wu Bangguo, Chairman of China's National People's Congress attend talks at the Great Hall of the People, in Beijing October 14, 2009.
View Photo »Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (L) and Wu Bangguo, Chairman of China's National People's Congress attend talks at the Great Hall of the People, in Beijing October 14, 2009.
View Photo »Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (L) and Wu Bangguo, Chairman of China's National People's Congress shake hands at the Great Hall of the People prior to their talks, in Beijing October 14, 2009.
View Photo »Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (L) and Wu Bangguo, Chairman of China's National People's Congress shake hands at the Great Hall of the People prior to their talks, in Beijing October 14, 2009.
View Photo »Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (2nd L) and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (R) attend a signing ceremony of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing October 14, 2009. The SCO is a grouping of central Asian states.
View Photo »Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (C) arrives at Beijing airport October 12, 2009, for his three-day visit to China.
View Photo »Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (C) smiles as the head of the Italian carmaker Fiat Sergio Marchionne (L) and the head of state of industrial corporation Sergei Chemezov shake hands while exchanging documents during their meeting in Moscow October 8, 2009.
View Photo »Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (R) and the head of the Italian carmaker Fiat Sergio Marchionne meet for talks in Moscow October 8, 2009.
View Photo »Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (R) and the head of the Italian carmaker Fiat Sergio Marchionne meet for talks in Moscow October 8, 2009.
View Photo »Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, center, chairs a meeting with government officials in Moscow, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009.
View Photo »Vehicles travel past the portrait of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, seen on his party United Russia's campaign poster promoting the upcoming regional elections, in Moscow, October 8, 2009.
View Photo »Vehicles travel past the portrait of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, seen on his party United Russia's campaign poster promoting the upcoming regional elections, in Moscow, October 8, 2009.
View Photo »Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (L) and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev meet in Moscow, October 7, 2009.
View Photo »MOSCOW , RUSSIA - OCTOBER 7: Russan Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (L) speaks during a meeting with a group of Russian writers as journalist Alexander Arkhanelsky (C) and Andrey Bitov look on at the Pushkin Museum October 7, 2009 in Moscow, Russia.
View Photo »MOSCOW , RUSSIA - OCTOBER 7: Russan writer Alexander Kabakov is seen prior to a meeting with Russan Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at the Pushkin Museum October 7, 2009 in Moscow, Russia. Putin celebrates his 57th birthday today.
View Photo »MOSCOW , RUSSIA - OCTOBER 7: Russan writer Valentin Rasputin is seen prior to a meeting with Russan Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at the Pushkin Museum October 7, 2009 in Moscow, Russia. Putin celebrates his 57th birthday today.
View Photo »MOSCOW , RUSSIA - OCTOBER 7: Russan writer Valentin Rasputin is seen prior to a meeting with Russan Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at the Pushkin Museum October 7, 2009 in Moscow, Russia. Putin celebrates his 57th birthday today.
View Photo »MOSCOW , RUSSIA - OCTOBER 7: Russan writer Valentin Rasputin is seen prior to a meeting with Russan Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at the Pushkin Museum October 7, 2009 in Moscow, Russia. Putin celebrates his 57th birthday today.
View Photo »Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (L) talks with Chinese President Hu Jintao (R) at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing October 14, 2009.
View Photo »Ukraine will raise the transit tariff as is envisaged by the contract which we signed. Next year there will be no (gas price) discount and no transit benefits. The transit tariff will rise some 60 percent. We know it and there is nothing unusual in it. I repeat, it is in the framework of the contract. T...
Dmitry Medvedev has instructed Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to present proposals by 1 March 2010 for the reform of state corporations.
We have discussed the possibility of setting up a joint venture between Gazprom and Slovak partners to distribute natural gas in Slovakia
A report will be drafted following the check, and Nurgaliyev will present it to President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin
If they do not pay for gas consumed in Ukraine, they will not get it. If they don't get it, then gas is likely to be tapped from the pipeline. As soon as tapping is reported, we will cut supplies
A report will be drawn up which Nurgaliyev will present to President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin
I am very much counting on our main transit partner, Ukraine, to fulfill all its contractual obligations
He (Putin) said just that if by the time of the next presidential electionss Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev would still be desirable as political leaders, then we shall sit down and discuss who will take part in the elections in order to avoid elbowing each other. He did not say that we would decide...
The commissioning of Nord Stream will secure long-term gas supplies to Denmark. This will be at least one billion cubic meters of gas per year ... Subsequently this quantity could be tripled for Denmark
I do not wish to one day find myself and Vladimir Putin resembling the aged leaders from the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union standing on Lenin's Mausoleum in similar coats and hats, when it was impossible to tell Brezhnev from Suslov
The commissioning of Nord Stream will secure long-term gas supplies to Denmark. This will be at least one billion cubic meters of gas per year ... Subsequently this quantity could be tripled for Denmark
Here's a transcript, available on the Russian government website, of a videoconference between with Vladimir Putin, Silvio Berlusconi and their Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan. In just one conversation, these three men laid the foundations for solving all our strategic hydrocarbon challenges - ...
General Motors... presented everyone with a fait accompli ... It's a good lesson, and we will have to take into account this style of doing business in the future.
I got the idea from a concert that Madonna gave for [former] Russian President Vladimir Putin
Honestly, I was only sorry for the loss of the Soviet Union’s position in Europe, though logically I understood that a position based on walls and divides cannot exist forever
Swedish prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, representing the Swedish presidency, spoke on the telephone with Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin about the fact that Ukraine risks not being able to meet its payment commitments to the (Russian] company Gazprom.
Sweden's government has given its permission to the Nord Stream consortium to build two parallel pipelines to carry gas through the Swedish economic zone in the Baltic Sea ... I want to thank the Swedish government for this decision.
I will tell my friend, Vladimir Putin, and the Russian people that they, too, will gain from the security and stability of nations to wheat pearl Russia's west
GM’s decision to cancel the sale of Opel to the consortium of Magna and Sberbank will not cause harm to the interests of Russia
I'm going to Russia to make it clear to Russia and to Vladimir Putin they have nothing to fear from NATO expansion ... to explain why I think it's a positive development
The Great Depression in the United States has given a very important impulse to the development of the American cinematography and made this industry super-profitable
What do I have in common with Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin and the Dalai Lama? We all oppose the massacre of baby seals. It's time to end Canada's shameful slaughter.
The IMF says Ukraine has no financial problems and it has money. The head of the Ukrainian government [Ms Tymoshenko] says Mr Yushchenko is blocking the transfer of money from the central bank to the government for payment. We do not interfere. These are Ukraine's internal affairs during the election ca...
Russia and China bolstered their close but increasingly imbalanced relationship on Tuesday when Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin ushered through deals worth $3.5 billion and looked to sign a tentative gas supply agreement.
The IMF says Ukraine has no financial problems and it has money. The head of the Ukrainian government [Ms Tymoshenko] says Mr Yushchenko is blocking the transfer of money from the central bank to the government for payment. We do not interfere. These are Ukraine's internal affairs during the election ca...
- HannesO_CARmag
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- el_zilcho
3 hours ago
@st_vincent http://twitpic.com/p5yhn - is that Vladimir Putin?!
- josephbirdsey 4 hours ago