Putin Pledges Billions to Uralvagonzavod By Anatoly Medetsky The St. Petersburg Times Published: September 14, 2011 (Issue # 1674) MOSCOW — A fan of military hardware, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin climbed inside a battle tank at a weapons exhibition in Nizhny Tagil last Friday, before promising 64 billion rubles ($2.2 billion) to state-owned Uralvagonzavod — the country’s largest producer of railcars and armored vehicles. The promised […]