Typically, company requirements for mileage reimbursement are set based on the annual IRS standard rate for business travel. For example, in 2013, a business could pay up to 56.5 cents per mile and write it off as a business expense. This is much simpler than keeping detailed records of actual operating expenses.
Boris Yeltsin came to power with a wave of high expectations. On June 12, 1991 he was elected president of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic with 57% of the vote, becoming the first popularly elected president. But Yeltsin never recovered his popularity after a series of economic and political crises in Russia in the 1990s.
Who is Vladimir Putin? Putin was elected President of the Russian Federation in 2000 and re-elected in 2004. In 2008, the new President Dmitry Medvedev appointed Putin as Prime Minister of the Russian Federation. Putin was re-elected as President for a third time in 2012. The Moscow Kremlin is the Russian equivalent to the White House in the United States, and it is home to a helipad built by Putin in 2013 to avoid Moscow traffic.