First prime minister and presidential candidate Dmitry Medvedev gave a first television address to Russians today. In it, he asked Putin to “agree in principle” to head the government after leaving the presidential post.
Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov has approved a new charter of the Russian Academy of Sciences proposed in March this year by a general meeting of the RAS.
Russian Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov has been approved for the position of Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Union State of Belarus and Russia
Almost all of Russia’s regional governors are members of the United Russia party. And President Putin’s decision to head the party’s federal parliamentary election list.
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has signed into force a decree scheduling elections to the State Duma (the lower chamber of the country’s parliament) for December 2nd this year.
Ukraine’s government is taking urgent measures to cut domestic budget spending in an effort to forestall the negative social and economic consequences of an escalating political standoff.
