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Vladimir Putin at the Russia 2012 investment forum
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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin holds a Government Presidium meeting

9 february

“Negative developments, which, doubtless, exist everywhere, including the internet, should not be used as a pretext for curbing online freedom. To prevent this from happening and to enable society to shield itself from these negative developments, all actions in this effort should be transparent. They should be undertaken and worked out together with the online community.”

Vladimir Putin
At a Government Presidium meeting
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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin attends the conference of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs

9 february

“The national business initiative signifies an entirely new approach to the formation of a business environment in which not officials but business itself, the main user of its services, sets demands for the participants in the process. We must charge officials with an obligation to fulfill these requirements efficiently rather than just on paper.”

Vladimir Putin
At the conference of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs
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Daily Agenda

Prime Minister Putin stated that Ukraine’s successful and sustained development is of concern to Russia, since Ukraine is “one of Russia’s major partners in politics, the economy and trade.” He emphasised that the future of large companies and even some sectors of the Russian economy depends on Ukraine’s progress. For his part, the Ukrainian president noted that Russia has made great progress in the past five years and had entered a post-recessionary period
“Sports are sports <…> But we must determine the actual causes of our failures, make our conclusions, and fix the problems. Attempts to explain away our defeats as a result of biased judging, capricious weather and scheming against our team are irrelevant. This is what losers do. We must start by reviewing our efforts to determine whether we did everything we could for our athletes, whether those who were responsible for helping them prepare truly gave it their all.”